The flakiness and glitchiness occurs even with default buffers in squeezelite, which does not require a lot of RAM. Secondly, squeezelite works flawlessly - both default and with large buffers - with LMS.
So the flakiness is really in Roon’s implementation of squeezelite support. It’s fine if they haven’t put a lot of resources in that feature, it’s their prerogative.
But again - I have no interest in arguing with other Roon users. As a paid lifetime subscriber, I just want to make this feature request to Roon directly. They can decide how they want to respond.
He hasn’t backed down, he has thanked someone for pointing him to where he can make his view a feature request. I hope he gets what he wants but without the support of the ‘peanut gallery’ that might be a tough call.
Roon playback sounds much better to me when an album is played directly rather than through a playlist. The silences are more silent, and the notes are more notey. This is obviously because of the increased processor activity, thread count, object manipulation and garbage collection caused by playlist playback creating RFI and EMI cross polluting the USB earth. Anyone who cannot hear this is either deaf, deluded or has unresolving hi-fi. I demand that Roon pay no attention to anyone who disagrees with me, or who insist that I substantiate my claims, and I demand that Roon divert valuable resources into solving this night and day issue.
Sorry I am very late to this thread, but this bit piqued my interest.
Can anyone offer an explantion for the additional noise a solid state storage device apparently creates, over and above an equally solid state RAM chip please?
Funny there is a discussion on Naims forum about the Melco N10 and how Melco won’t use SSD as they say they are electrically more noisy than HDD and using Raid also increases noise for HDDs so they have dropped raid from their configs. I switched my ROCK to use an SSD external drive instead of the HDD one I had. I did not notice any change.
I don’t think there’s a hobby out there that’s filled with as much bullshit as hi-fi. Must be exhausting chasing the dragon rather than enjoying music.
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