I subscribed to Roon about a month ago. After solving several setup issues the app settled in and performed properly. In the last few weeks I find that, when playing down loaded DSD albums, Roon will play the first track without problem, but frequently will not start the next track, or will start the next track then stop playing. I can always load another, non DSD, album which plays without incident; then it will play another DSD track and glitch again.Other hi-res albums play without incident.
Can you describe your setup. Roonserver, where are the music files, how and what are you playing them to.
My fuat suggestions without knowing the above is to make sure the dsd files are local to the roonserver and to not have any wifi network hops in the playback chain.
Along with describing your setup as @Rugby mentioned can your post a shot of the signal path when this issue is occurring.
If the DSD file is getting converted to PCM your CPU processing speed may be to low to run normal playback. If the signal path displays a processing speed around 1x then that could be the the issue.
Gents,
Many thanks for getting back. I’m using a YxK mini PC with Windows 11 - CPU speed 3.4 GHz, cache 6mb, internal storage 1TB.
I’m a little screwed up on storage, however. I’ve got two drives involved: the 1TB internal and a 250 GB memory stick. The original setup took a bit of time and frustration, and I experimented with both storage drives. Ultimately, I settled on the thumb drive, however I could, and probably should, have checked both before asking for help. (I’ve got a bunch of double entries on my Albums listing. But this was always an issue with my previous Node with only an external SSD.)
As to the signal path, I’m using two new components, both PS Audio. First an Air-Lens streamer, to a Direct Drive DAC. My understanding of the DAC is that it converts all PCM files to DVD before doing anything else.
Thanks again.
Here is a shot of the Signal Path I was referring too. It is the button to the left of the playback controls on the bottom just above the progress bar. Green button in the photo, yours may be bright or a different color. This path display shows what Roon is doing for the playback.
Hi Mike,
Borrowed my son’s tablet and took this pic while playing a DSD file. Please let me know if it provides any information. As noted, the only media which will not process is DSDs.
Thanks,
Warren
Support topic opened, so closing this one.