This beta is about 1 thing only: switching from a 32-bit environment to a 64-bit one.
Although switching to 64-bit does not bring us anything with respect to functionality, I think now is the time because in general more and more parties in the ecosystem are making this switch.
I’ve been waiting with this for quite some time (again, it does not bring us ‘real’ benefit) to make sure that it does not interfere with RoPieee’s ‘first rule’: stability above everything else.
Anyways, would be great if some of you are willing to run this for some time in their daily Roon adventures to make sure it is going to be seamless.
What should you notice? Absolutely nothing
So let me know if you made the jump. Even if it ‘just works’ a ping would be great.
Hi Harry,
beta testing with you is booring its running now for 2.5 hrs no glitch nothing.
I’ll give you an update after the we. Or something…
best Bernd
I switched to beta channel, the update notification came, I updated, and I am now on 2022.06.4 (497). So far all smooth and good after about 30 mins. FWIW I am using XL and playing out of HQP NAA output into SRC-DX and Chord Qutest at max sample rate 705/768. Will report any problems but I doubt there will be any!
It’s now over 15 hours since I switched my RoPieee to the Beta channel, and still no update notice. So I checked on the router and found that RoPieee is downloading at a variable speed of between 3-18 kB/s… No wonder there’s no update notice… I haven’t seen this kind of download speed since the old days with dialup Internet connection…
Recent regular updates also weren’t available until the day after being announced by Harry… So, what could be the reason for this? I suppose the updates are distributed over some kind of CDN, but from wherever it is downloading, here in South America it’s an exercise of patience (as nearly everything here, so I am half used to it)…
Hope that tomorrow morning I can update.
Edit: Updated 30 min ago. All is well. Once the update (build 496) was downloaded, it applied seamlessly and works just as before. Well done @spockfish!
RoPieee’s relative succes has a downside: the infrastructure has a hard time in serving all those endpoints. I tested with a CDN, but it’s just too expensive for a hobby project.
RoPieeeXL 2022.06.4 (0497) from beta channel installed. Not sure if it is described phenomenal 64b version but I can hear more hiper details and I’m almost sure that my stream has more bits than before
I am loving the update. I know digital is supposed to all sound the same but I swear it sounds better on my PI2AES with RPi 4 8GB. Perhaps it’s the PI2AES driver that’s there now. I am very happy
its running now for 2.5 hrs no glitch nothing.
