If I use Plexamp in the car (which I have not had to do for a while as ARC has worked perfectly for me), I listen to the system playlist of all my favourite tracks on shuffle & using smartfade, that is the only scenario for me. I am not sure why I like to use it in the car, I am usually alone on the commute & so blissfully singing along, or butchering the vocals more like.
I don’t shuffle music otherwise or use any crossfade, Roon makes it easy to add music to the queue, so I just keep adding full albums, so I am not interested in crossfade in Roon.
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What sudden pop clicks never get this on any of my zones.
Lifetime Roon, gone back to LMS some years ago, due to too many missing features in Roon.
Hopefully the new Roon ownership will allow me to get some return on my investment 
Happy New Year All.
When fast forwarding, pausing, stopping, or skipping tracks, because Roon don‘t do signal-zero-crossing detection to perform the command, which causes sudden analog output voltage jumps.
Somewhere, I think it was in the feature suggestion thread, someone from Roon attested to that fact and their inability to easily change RAAT code to account for that, due to implementation woes regarding existing Roon ready devices.
Can’t say I have ever experienced such things.
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I don’t get clicks in Roon on any endpoint when pausing, stopping or changing tracks, ARC included.
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What is missing from Roon that LMS offers?
Likely audibility of these artifacts depends on system components and gain structure?
I’m using a SMSL 300MkII DAC’s variable balanced output directly into my amp.
I’m also using convolution with only negative gain filtering to correct my line-source-full-range speakers, so need to turn volume up quite high, almost completely maxing it out with some quiet classical material.
The clicking/popping artifacts vary in intensity depending on where within a track I issue the respective command - sometimes I hear no artifact at all when the signal is close or exactly at zero.
Maybe you’re running through a preamp with lots of spare gain, so have the volume typically dialed down quite a bit?
Factors like these…
EDIT:
All else being equal, this doesn’t happen with LMS, which has zero-crossing detection implemented.
Me neither. ARC on iPhone or iPad. CXNv2, Node X, Loxjie D30 DAC, iFi Zen DACv2 or my Android TV.
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So it’s your setup that’s an edge case then and not necessarily a commo. issue with Roon in general. I don’t hear them on any endpoint I own via headphones or speakers at any volume when I have used convolution or peq or without. Some are bridges to dac then amp others are RR devices with built in DACs to amps.
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Maybe an edge case, but caused by Roon, nonetheless!
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Spotify, Deezer, web GUI (so a linux gui), my listening data is my own, clients connect immediately and reliably to the server, reasonable resource requirements, open source, to name but a few.
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