Hi @Eric,
Thanks for suggesting how to isolate the issue. I performed extensive tests over the weekend with the following results:
Roon Core running on Intel i7-4790 3.6Ghz desktop PC with 4GB RAM (not ideal I guess?) - no other applications running except background services:
- Tidal+Airplay+VolumeLevelling (the configuration I used on the NAS) - just as many skips as when running Roon Core from the NAS
- Tidal+Airplay (no volume levelling) - no skips
I then shut down the Roon Core running on the desktop, started up the Core on the NAS and turned off volume levelling - unfortunately this didn’t make any difference.
So it does seem a more powerful processor helps with this issue, but that it isn’t perhaps the whole story? Out of interest, have the development team confirmed playing Tidal tracks over Airplay is a more load intensive task for Roon Core than playing local FLAC and mp3 files over Airplay?
Thanks,
James