Mac Skipping Tracks

[noris]

Hi @Bernd_Ruths1 ,

I’ve split your post into its own thread, I suspect that this may be the issue:

@Bernd_Ruths1

iMac

@Bernd_Ruths1

Library size is about 755.000 tracks

At the present time, MacOS is not the best choice for very large databases, with a library of this size, you’d want to use hardware dedicated to just music server functionality, but there are also some MacOS performance improvements in the pipeline, please see:

Roon interface issues on a large Roon library (860k tracks - MacOS Catalina)

@akos_szablya, macOS will be more suitable for large libraries when we release native support for the M1/M1x chips. This work is in progress. For now, I don’t think the bigger Macbook Pro will make much of a difference, as the limitation is less about the speed of the machine and more about how Roon runs on a mac. With a huge library (yours is in the 99.94th percentile among Roon users), you should really use an always-on, dedicated core with lots of RAM, ideally running Roon OS, but Windows w…