Roon struggles to find audio devices and experiences playback issues after updating to macOS Sequoia (ref#3S1J23)

[Christine_Dougan]

Fixed it for me! I use a third party Firewall and have never used the firewall built into macOS. After the upgrade to Sequoia it is turned on by default. If your security is that bad you are relying on macOS Firewall you have bigger problems.

[Moderator Edit: Addendum] …

Disabling Firewalls - Important General Guidance

Hi all, In some Support and general discussion topics you may read advice to switch off the devices firewall. I’d like to clarify that this advice should not be followed blindly, and user should always consider their own systems setup and understand the implications. Leaving the firewall disable may leave the system vulnerable to malicious attack. Typically, the advice to disable, is purely as a temporary troubleshooting step, just to rule out if the firewall / firewall rules are blocking Roo…