Running Roon now on Windows 8 on the MacMini. Wow is it so much faster to scan the library. (maybe I will risk Windows 10 next)
There is something seriously wrong with the way MacOS browses NAS shares, which I think is the root cause of my library issues.
After testing El Capitan Apple seem to have done a good job at fixing those issues, but unfortunately we will need to wait for Roon to catch that up.
PS: in an earlier email I threatened to go back to Jriver 20 on El Capitan, which I did for 1 day before realising there is no contest. I could not go back to that interface with EOS remote. YUCK
Full Steam ahead Roon, get those dev’s working 24/7
It’s really no use testing against El Cap until the beta cycle has stabilized, which could be well into August or even September. As in previous cycles, core changes and last minute turnarounds will happen.
Roon devs have been working like madmen since release, ironing out kinks and adding new functionality. With iOS, headless and metadata editing around the corner, it would be a waste of resources chasing compatibility with a beta OS.
My Arial font family is present and active, but Roon still hangs on start (just “bounces” for a couple of minutes and then stops). No messages in console, and once the icon stops bouncing, it’s still in hung state and must be forcibly stopped (“Force Quit”).
ok, that clearly isnt it… we’ll have to take a look… itll be a quick thing im sure… the bigger issue is that every OSX seems to tweak the sound stuff a lot, breaking buffers and timings.
Still not launching here (beta 4), but different symptoms: icon bounces only twice, application does not launch, but not in “not responding” state afterwards.
@jhwalker, dont know how technical you are, but if you can open up the Terminal app on your mac and run this command, it will generate a log file on your desktop… could you email that to contact@roonlabs.com ?
Thanks for your help. If anyone else is having this issue on El Capitan, you can do the same and it’ll help me out. If you are running fine, don’t send me anything.
@jhwalker thanks! your issue is actually resolved in development… the splash screen at the moment requires Arial, and it looks like you might have it disabled.
In our fixed code, we back off to the system font if you don’t have Arial, so this wouldn’t prevent you from starting up.
However, until that is released, I do have a fix for you:
Open FontBook, and look for Arial in your list of fonts… I bet it’s disabled. Just re-enable it and rerun Roon.
I actually tried that before and Arial shows up as “active” in Font Book. That said, Font Book is also broken in the latest beta so I can’t look again right now. I’ll look forward to the next build, but not sure how I’ll get it, since updates only seem to happen when the client is actually running
Just installed El Capitan Public Beta 2 and Roon Client is back to normal. My server machine is still running Yosemite so I can’t speak to that, but it should be okay. Previous versions of El C, Roon locked up on start and I had to reboot.
For the record, this is Mac OS 10.11 Beta (15A225f).