I’m using a 2017 15" MacBook Pro for my core. The software is up to date: 10.14.3
Roon version 1.6 build 390 stable 64 bit.
Recently I’ve had a 2017 iPad Pro hooked up to a Parasound Halo P5. I’d control Roon from my MacBook Pro and pick the iPad for the zone, which sent things along to the P5’s dac via Apple’s digital out adapter for the iPad. Everything worked smoothly (for months).
Today I got a 2018 iPad Pro. When I set it up I had it just duplicate the set up on my first iPad Pro, using iCloud. Both iPads are using 12.1.3
The first problem is that while I can open Roon on the new iPad, Roon won’t recognize the new iPad as a zone. I tried various places in Settings for configuring things, but the new iPad didn’t show up anywhere. (The old one didn’t either.)
The second problem is that now, when I pick the 1st iPad as a zone and try controlling it from either my laptop or the new/2nd iPad, things start okay but then break down in less than one track. Wether I’m running things from the new iPad or running them from the laptop with the new iPad off, Roon plays less than one track and then skips to a new track and then, before that track even starts playing, Roon skips to a new one, and then does the same thing, over and over. If I hit pause during this process it pauses for a split second and then starts jumping through tracks again. Then it stops and says “Nothing Playing”. Sometimes I get a message that Tidal is loading slowly, but I don’t think that’s really the problem, because (i) if I pick System Output (the laptop) for the zone, then everything works fine and (ii) if start music on the Tidal app on the 2017/old iPad Pro, then everything goes fine. So something is going wrong with Roon and the two iPad Pros, and I don’t seem to be able to go back in time by turning the new iPad off and using the old one as the zone (which is what used to work).
One potential problem is that on some Apple menus, both iPad Pros have the same name, and it’s only when you dig into the menu that you get a “(2)” after the name of the new iPad Pro.
At the moment I don’t have a workaround; picking the 2017 iPad Pro as the zone is how I get music over to my main audio system, and I need that to work while both my laptop and new iPad Pro are on.
Any thoughts on what the problem is or how to fix it?
Thanks.
-Brad