A Chromecast audio device bought off eBay is a fairly unobtrusive plug in to either Naim device, is recognised by Roon and will stream at high quality without the 100% volume problem
The Mu-So will not automatically power on when chromecast is connected, so we might as well just get ready on the Mu-So volume control and save the money.
I agree all bugs are inconvenient, but the priorities in this thread are related to Naim/Roon inter-working not macOS Catalina. That said, it appears that Roon have issued a bug fix for your problem🤔
Where did I talk about Catalina? I don’t use Catalina and Roon runs on my NUC with Rock. But this bug is one year old and I doubt that it will ever be fixed. But why is it more important to add support of discontinued products?
I appear to have misunderstood your “SuperDrives” comment, due to the recent Catalina issues & disappearing external drives.
However your SuperDrive issue may get more support attention on a separate thread.
Regarding a volume fix, things are happening but not being published just yet.
I dont want to plug a £30 pieces of Google junk into my 3 grands worth of Musos thankyou.
It definitely it isnt more important to add support for a completely defunct Superdrive, Cd’s are so 1990. But thats what the support forum is for, so best to post a support request for the help.
Steve Harris, Software Director from Naim Audio here.
Due to strict licencing and NDA requirements regarding Airplay, I can’t really say much on a public forum. Naim are a fully certified Airplay and Apple partners, so we need to respect the rules and regulations that we are committed to.
However, for those who have the issue and are looking for a sensible workaround for this use-case, could you contact me on steve.harris(at)naimaudio.com.
Seems there may be a fix available from posts below.
But just so that (ignorant me) understands what I am missing sound quality wise . Can you help and explain ? With the Chrome audio device (set to full volume) I now get a Path which claims that it is Lossless all the way from source (eg Tidal Lossless) thru Chrome to either of the Muso devices. And I don’t have the 100% volume problem.
So (just so I understand it) what am I losing/missing by routing thru the Chrome device rather than straight using Airplay?
So, be using the Naim fix today, and no issues so far. Will leave it for 24 hours and see if it reappears, Steve said it may once on the first startup in his email.
It was so nice to be able to turn everything on this morning and it all just working and being at the same volume I left it on last night! Thankyou @Steve_Harris
The issue was with implementation of Airplay. Chrome via optical to the MuSo wasn’t affected and will offer lossless but it doesn’t auto-switch. So you need the naim app to switch to optical then control from roon (unless someone has discovered a workaround)
"Chromecast can handle higher resolution files that Airplay/Airplay 2"