For those of us who prefer to defer updates, it is very annoying to have to X out of this display box every time I launch Roon.
Yes I know that there is a update. Yes I know that there is an update. Yes , well I could go on and on.
Roon’s policy is that there is no way to downgrade to previous version and I get that. (That should be another request). However time and time again I see folks on this forum having issues with the update and so I do not rush out and update right away and having this time and time again is very annoying.
I get it. There is a Update. Get it shoved down is unwarranted.
Can you just make it fade away and disappear after a few seconds?
Like you I usually defer the update but rarely longer than a few days. I disagree about the ‘time and again’ aspect of the updates, because it seems to me that major issues are very rare (I am on ROCK, YMMV). Many are patched within 48 hours or so (as per recent update) with no permanent harm done. What I do seem to recall a lot of issues with (now and in the last year) is users upgrading the core but not the Remote. The Remote should fail more gracefully than it seems to with IOS IMHO if you are an update behind.
You noticed that also. There is no doubt that when updates create issues, the Roon team is there to address them because in the end it is a Update and issues will arrive. They are mindful of that and they make themselves available.
On my end I have had it happen to me where issues arose and it took me hours to straighten it out. These hours are were spread out over a few days. (That is your 48 hours) So now I do not like updating unless I know I have a block of time to fix what goes south. If there was an easy way to undo the update I would probably perform the update immediately but that is not the case.
Take for example this update. It seems that the biggest thing about this Update is the Chromecast feature and a couple of bug fixes. I have nothing Chrome and these bugs that there are addressing do not pertain to me.
Also the biggest reason my setup is working flawlessly. The sound is incredible. No issues at all. I am on Version 1.5 build 323 and there was a reason for me to update to this version and that was the implementation of MQA.
Fine, I can understand that point of view, but I rely on many systems that need regular updates and will stop working either partially or fully if I don’t. There is no such thing as a risk free update though, however long you leave it. Also, trying to put off the inevitable by skipping updates may take you into untested territory with some software.
It seems like problems with updates is legion because we see them all here, but I have never had an issue that a core reboot didn’t fix and I expect this is true for the vast majority of users.
It’s like doctors, they only see I’ll people lol
It is easy to get a mistaken impression (about many things actually) from this forum because out of 50,000+(?) Roon users, you only see the problems posted, not the ‘updated without issue’ posters. Even then, I think there are relatively few problems given the range of core, OS & endpoint platforms that Roon can run on, not to mention the ‘interesting’ implementations of the USB standard that some DAC manufacturers seem to take. And then there is the near infinite variety of all our home networks held together by dodgy cheap ISP supplied modem/routers. It is a wonder it works at all sometimes…
