Roon on iMac acquires but does not release sleep prevention registrations [Resolved]

[DaveN]

I suspect this is an issue that affects a limited number of Roon users as exactly the same problem was reported in 2016 (running through to 2019). Thus far there has been no solution.

Roon never releasing NoIdleSleepAssertion on Mac

$ pmset -g assertions |grep Roon pid 18452(Roon): [0x0001815100011b41] 00:00:45 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: “Music is playing” pid 18452(Roon): [0x00017da700011ac8] 00:16:24 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: “Music is playing” pid 18452(Roon): [0x0001750f000119de] 00:53:03 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: “Music is playing” This list grows by one each time I pause and play playing again, and holding this lock/assertion prevents Mac from going to sleep even when Roon is paused/stopped playing music. I’…