This morning I noticed that the elapsed time was counting up by 3’s instead of the normal 1 second increment. What was odd that I even before noticing the elapsed time, I felt that the sound quality of my system had changed for the worse in some way. There was just something very digital and sterile about my music. After I restarted my computer, the sound I was used to returned and the elapsed time was counting up normally in 1 second increments.
Now, I am not asserting that the sound quality was somehow impacted by whatever caused the elapsed time issue I described. However, I do want to understand from Roon’s perspective what could cause this technically so I can perhaps how this mechanism could also impact the sound.
Yeah, more details would help. I agree with @Ludwig. It sounds like your machine was struggling–multi-second gaps between seek position changes suggest that Roon isn’t getting what it needs from the operating system/CPU.
Your computer got messed up and a reboot fixed it. I,d be a rich man if I had a dollar for every time I told my wife that. It works and she stills wants to know why it happens.
Thanks guys. I have an i7-3770s machine which normally runs at 2-3% CPU utlization during playback so I am a bit surprised about this. I will keep my eyes open if this happens again and see what the CPU load looks like.
