For the case of Tidal streaming, the stream goes from Tidal servers directly to the mobile phone for both applications, right? Alas with the bluetooth connection to the DAC, how differently would this work? As far as for the playback interruption causing events, they both are exposed to the same environment, it is not like one is hard-wired and other is using BT. I understand Roon does much more, don’t worry. Yet anyone who will come from streaming world will hit the issues they are not used to.
Outside of urban environments it usually is fine. I mostly listen in car and there I can see that I am on Edge or without the signal completely, so the issues are expected. This is different from interruptions in an urban area where if I check if internet works, it does.
On Friday I’ve used hard-wired connection to DAC. Got interruptions, too:
-
18:04 (and also 18:02 - this one was right after I’ve left the cinema, so like first song played after few hours and I kind of ignored it as one of a kind, yet it was just a beginning)
-
18:21 (this was interesting as next song was stuck at time 0 when I brought ARC to foreground to resume playback, not sure if there is some connection to Roon Server required at each new song, eg. for loudness data?)
What I think can be useful for more experiments is that I’ve managed to identify a spot in the city that has high interference (18:04), the initial interruptions in this ticket were from that place, too. What is really unfortunate when playback interruption happens is that to resume the playback, one has to take phone out of the pocket and unlock it, now if one is in a very crowded place after dark, one has to think about who is around as one does not want to lose the phone, right… so when that happens, one is looking for a safe place that is a bit shielded, fix the playback, and in few minutes, one is in a need of a safe place again, so it is, and becomes, very distracting.
I’ve than switched to Tidal + BT connection to DAC, no issues afterwards.
Did not have a chance yet. My use case is mainly streaming, I don’t own a lot of downloaded tracks, but I’ll try to test that on that “place of interference”.
Thanks, I am hoping ARC will get more stable for everyone, Roon is wonderful software overall.