Roon 1.8 (Build 880) Feedback Thread

12/17 15:33:32 Debug: NotifyCorruptZoneDatabases Exception LevelDb.Exception: IO error: /var/roon/RoonServer/Database/Core/5d5b0749cc6e455194aca11ab9ed0c4d/transport/zone_1601baca079968cbcdff9e94af524abd5b88.db/MANIFEST-016302: Too many open files
   at LevelDb.Database._CheckError(IntPtr err)
   at LevelDb.Database..ctor(String path)
   at Sooloos.Broker.Transport.ZoneDb..ctor(String dbpath)
   at Sooloos.Broker.Transport.Zone..ctor(State state, Module module, Sooid zoneid, IEnumerable`1 endpoints)

Why am I getting this after the upgrade. Anyone knows howto pass rlimits to the roon server?
Is a

ulimit -n <big no>
systemctl restart roonserver.service

Sufficient?

Noticed immediately an uptick in SQ.

There is no plausible explanation for how or why SQ should be in any way improved or degraded by the tasks Roon performs…Unless you are using dsp functions, in which case you might want to check that any dsp functions you use might have be reset back to default (disabled) during the update. Sometimes a change in sound can seem like an improvement in SQ. (Analogous to Hawthorne effect.)

Yeah I agree. Return money please

Me too. After a smooth upgrade, suddenly I noticed yesterday that I had “lost” about 900 albums from my library. (I knew, of course, that they actually hadn’t been physically “lost.”). A restart of Roon Server app on my sonicTransporter-AP core restored everything. That is usually where I begin trouble shooting whenever problems arise.

Don’t disagree with your observations but a fellow Roon user/friend and I noticed better SQ after the firmware update. More than a few other users have also stated this observation. It is curious.

Hello. Apologies in advance if this has already been mentioned, but… on the Now Playing screen, the background behind the album art switched from a black background to a blurred version of the album playing upon upgrade. I much preferred the black background. I see no reference to this change in the release materials. Is there a way to change it back? Or is my software malfunctioning? Thanks.

If after any update Roon sounds better and function worse, I imagine by roon 3.0 we’ll have the best sounding, not working at all, application on earth!

What is your Core running on?

Serious question. Who curates these Roon curated playlists? It’s all middle of the road very very safe choices, very mainstream and utterly boring. There is not one playlist that is remotely interesting, not one. Where are the Heavy Metal, Electronic, Indie, Reggae, Country, House, Dance, Experimental, Dub or whatever genre playlists? The world is a whole lot bigger than “jazz for in the fireplace” Where is the challenge, the exploration of the unknown? Now we have 15 of the same highly mediocre lists. Can we please toggle them away from my home screen.

not going to read whole thread nor check whole forum: 1.8 build 880 issue:

Qobuz albums added yesterday as favourites do not show in “My Library”
(they do show, though, in Qobuz/My Qobuz/Favourite Albums)

Just take it what it is supposed to be: A Playlist for the masses. You will never find a list that satisfies you. Make your own.

If so, then please let me toggle it away. If there are two things in music I truly hate it is christmass carols and Diana Krall and all of her totally uninspiring soundalikes, and what do I get? Exactly, Christmass Carols AND Diana Krall and a whole lot of her soundalikes. I want it out of sight, I don’t even want to know its existence

Core running on Nucleus.

I don’t even look at it. It didn’t catch my attention until I read your posting here.

I totally agree Paul. It should not make any difference however my perception is that there is improvement in SQ with this latest update I am generally pretty skeptical about such things. Strange

This!

This has been om my mind for a few days now. I really don’t mind jazz and classical music playlist. I do mind when we only get those two genres, or genres like that, in Roon, Facebook, Instagram, Tidal or Qobuz.

It gets old very fast.

I am 63 and listen to black metal and death metal. And I am by no means the only one, in general or on this forum. There is a thriving metal community on this forum and it would be nice to be acknowledged.

I can imagine that those who are into other genres than the standard ‘audiophile genres’ feel the same.

There is so much more music then the standard fare. It might be time to do something with that.



on NAS, This upgrade could not be completed.

Or if, for example, the “re-scan every record” also happened before a backup, so that the user could be notified of it at a less-critical juncture. Seems like Engineering 101, to me.

[Edit] Looks like Roon agrees. This feature is in 880: “Starting in this release, we will be detecting database integrity issues “on the fly” – if corruption is detected during a backup, or during normal use of Roon, the application will halt and the user will need to restore from a backup.”

Maybe they reflect the mainstream tastes of the roon audience. Hope more interesting ones come along later as I too find them safe and too, too much jazz.