I have created a playlist titled “The Hits” which so far has 379 songs. Today from my Meridian Director / Raspberry Pi Ethernet connected zone, I encountered problems when shuffling songs. Often when a song completed, the music would simply stop rather than move to the next song. Selecting a single album plays all songs in order just fine.
I am right now playing the same playlist on the Roon core (i7, 16GB, 1 terabyte SSD) in the main listening room and shuffle appears to be working fine.
So, do I have a network deficiency? (I have an eero Pro router with the Raspberry Pi Ethernet connected to a Linksys 8 port switch) or does a 300 + playlist exceed the Pi’s ability buffer? Or do I have some other issue like too much traffic on my network. I typically have about 25 devices, wired and wireless connected to my network, but of course not all of them are constantly drawing significant bandwidth.
Appears to be very similar to your issue stubaggs. To test I switched back to the RPi with the HiFiBerry Dac + Pro HAT, changed the setting on the Ropieee web page and my large-ish playlist shuffled just fine. I then changed the Ropieee webpage back to “no HAT and checked the usb box”, re-connected the Meridian Director, re-tested, and the shuffle issue returned.
The lights on the Meridian blink in a bit of confused manner, when attempting to play the next song. I also have Ropieee version 095.1. I’ll check in with Harry and see if he has any ideas.
Thanks!
This isn’t by any chance a bit rate playback issue where some tracks are outside the rates supported? Though normally it would just skip to the next track iirc.
How does it go with radio playback?
Might be worth getting support tagged soon to see if the gurus can pull something insightful out of the logs
Regarding, the possibility of some tracks being outside rates supported, I don’t think so. I can individually select songs with sampling frequencies from 44.1, to 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 KHz and they play fine on the Meridian Director DAC.
Good idea to test using radio playback.
I did do a test using Focus and selected FLAC and 96 and 192KHz HDTracks downloads. The songs shuffled fine for about 20 minutes then playback stopped. (better but still not completely right) Of course there were much more than 20 minutes worth of files in this format.
I did notice when I first set up the Director, that attempting to use Roon DSP volume resulted in no audio on any hi rez files. Maybe I’ll experiment with toggling between “Use Device Control” and “Fixed Volume”, and see if that has any effect.