hello Roon Support, I have a lifetime license of Roon, currently version 1.7 (build 511), on a mid 2010 Apple Mac Mini running High Sierra OS version 10.13.6. This Mac has 8GB Ram and works perfectly.
Network Details (Including networking gear model/manufacturer and if on WiFi/Ethernet)
The music is 95% ripped from CDs and stored on an external 1TB HDD of Western Digital, the HDD is attached to the Mac via a Firewire cable.
the only wifi connection is between the Mac and the iPad
Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.)
The Mac mini is connected to a Rega DAC R, via a USB cable, and thus to my hifi setup
Description Of Issue
Suddenly yesterday I started Roon to listen some music, but either on the iPad or directly on the Mac display, Roon stops playing back music, or it does not start at all, and gives me this error message: “Playback was interrupted because a track failed to load”.
If I wait and change album, it randomly plays the music, or not.
I used the old iTunes app on the Mac, and it plays regularly any album, any song.
HELLO there!
I tested my system with iTunes as a player for a full day, and it works.
Hence the failure in picking up tracks is only with Roon.
At first, tracks didnt even start. Now I noticed they would randomly start, but then they stop and the error message appears.
A second error message then pops in, saying that because of too many errors, playback is stopped (eg when playing randomly tracks within an album or a genre).
hello Dylan
yes even with changing the output from Rega back to System Output, Roon has the same behaviour. And also after several reboots.
I have tested that using exactly the same system with iTunes, all works perfectly
sorry this makes Roon completely unsable.
thanks for any help!
hello Dylan
I do not have an AV on this machine. I will check this evening the FW configuration, and also the resource usage. PLS note that the Core Machine equals to the Mac Mini itself.
enabling / disabling the firewall does not affect the functionality of Roon. It doesnt work. Besides, while being active, the firewall allows inbound traffic for installed/downloaded software, and Roon in particular has a dedicated rule for allowing inbound connections.
when you speak of resource usage, I understand I need to check in the activity monitor of my Mac Mini.
If so, the CPU usage while Roon boots is quite high, up to 70%, but once completely loaded, it stabilizes around 10 to 15% in idle mode.
While in use, regular CPU usage sits around 20-25%. But I have noticed, when Roon stops working with the error message that one or more tracks failed to load, then CPU usage peaks around 45-49%.
Pls Help
I tried with multiple albums in 2 different tries… behaviour is the same. Roon stops playing with the same error message than before.
Also, pls let me remind that with iTunes, play goes fine in all cases: song shuffle, album sequential, genre shuffle… so it cannot be a HDD problem.
Again, please help
some time has passed and I still don’t see an answer. Moreover, the problem continues and I cannot use Roon, for which I paid 120 bucks for 1 year usage, + 430 USD for lifetime license!!!
Is Roon support so poor!!!
Should I ask my money back??!!!
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay here, @Valter_S!
Our team has been hard at work on the latest Roon release which came out a few days ago — Have you tried this update? Are you still experiencing the issue on this version?
If so, I’d like to escalate this to our senior development team during our meeting this week. To do this, I’m hoping you can once more reproduce the issue and make a note of the time it occurs and the track you try to play – I’ll enable diagnostics once more so we can review on the latest version and will bring it to the team during our meeting.
hello Dylan,
thanks for your reply.
I am off the entire next week for business travel, I’ll get back on sunday March 8th, and on Monday 9th I’ll test my system again with the new sw release and get back to you.
thanks
Valter