Roon core on Mac Mini issues

[Dennis_in_FL]

Roon Core Machine

Model Name:	Mac mini
Model Identifier:	Mac mini 9,1
Chip:	Apple M1
Total Number of Cores:	8 (4 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory:	8 GB
System Firmware Version:	7459.121.3
System Version: macOS 12.4 (21F79)

Kernel Version: Darwin 21.5.0

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Music on 8TB external hard drive (USB 3.0 to Mini)

Connected Audio Devices

Gustard X16 - USB

Number of Tracks in Library

14,000 tracks

Description of Issue

I believe this is recent. Possibly since the last build (952?)
My Mac Mini Core runs OK when playing music. If I do anything with albums (search, edit, etc) the memory usage on the mini goes over 100% and Roon slows down considerably. The memory use on the player (

Clicking on an album can take a good minute for a response.

If I exit Roon and restart all is well again until I start any album activity.

Here is a screen shot of the core shortly after starting roon

And later after album activity

Initially, the album activity I do (focus, tag, identify, search) will be very fast response and the core CPU % will come back down to 10-20%. But if I continue to work in that area, eventually the core will stay over 100% and the response for anything in Roon is too slow and I have to restart Roon on the core.

The music player is never affected and music plays on sometimes even if the Roon screen is frozen.

Maybe unrelated but I also have issues with focus…some areas aren’t showing up

[Dennis_Laslo]

My focus selections stayed blank and I ended up quitting Roon on the core and the remote player.

When I restarted, the focus selections were back.

[noris]

Hi @Dennis_in_FL ,

@Dennis_in_FL

Clicking on an album can take a good minute for a response.

This sounds like it could be this known issue we are investigating in the following thread:

ROON Controller is having problems [Solved: Update to Build 970]

Using Nucleus connected to external HD. Whenever I click on an album Roon gets stuck on “loading album” controller then freezes. Music plays but the timer is stopped and nothing moving on track progress .No response when i try and pause the music. If I close the controller and reopen things fine until I again try and click on an album. Everything really slow to populate. When I click on the Artists many of the Squares are blank for a minute or 2. Have rebooted nucleus. Seems to have started af…

Do you also notice the wrong song listed as currently playing?

[Rockhound]

Although I don’t have this issue as I’m still on way previous versions of both Roon and MacOS, I have wondered if this was a Rosetta issue but, at least on my M1 MacBook Pro, which serves as my controller, there is no option to force Roon to use Rosetta unlike some other software I use. So bang goes that theory.

[Dennis_in_FL]

Not so far.

[Dennis_in_FL]

All is well again after the latest build (970). So far so good.

My searches and refreshes snap again and the Mac Mini memory is back under 15% instead of 115%

[noris]

Glad to hear that the update helped resolve these issues on your end, @Dennis_in_FL !