Small pauses when playing audio from Tidal

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I confirm now too that it also happens with local files. Anyone know how to report a bug to Roon?

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Post in Support if you need support

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Stray neutrinos?

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What do you mean?

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Tongue-in-cheek and neutrinos as very weakly interacting particles are very unlikely, but cosmic rays of other kinds are a thing:

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Please post signal path of playing local file when it skips.

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Sorry - joke. We used to blame ‘stay neutrinos’ for random events that were otherwise inexplicable…

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I saw Stray Neutrinos warm up for The Suburbs at First Avenue in 1983. :metal:

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If I remember correctly - it was a long time ago and I’m not going to look it up - the thing about neutrinos was that they would pass straight through just about anything so, in effect, you’d have to be very unlucky to have one flip a bit but, conversely, there wasn’t much you could do about it… :wink:

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Will do. For now here’s the path of the same issue now happening with Qobuz.

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I see that you using Parametric EQ. Could it be that when playing a song that it is clipping?

This would resemble skipping or small pauses.

Can you temporary disable the EQ?

–MD

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Wouldn’t the clipping occur consistently on the same song passage in the case of clipping? However, if I return to the same section of the song where the playback gap occurred once, it doesn’t happen again.

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Since it is digital, it would seem like this would be the case but I don’t this for sure.

I know that clipping is sparatic depending on source.

It is a simple toggle switch to see if this is the problem and if it is not a simple switch back.

Also a easy fix if it is the EQ. Just lower the master gain.

–MD

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Sure, will test further. Thanks

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I do not see any mention of Ethernet switches. My Roon Server NAS and DAC were on an unmanaged switch when I experienced a similar issue. Once I moved my NAS and DAC Ethernet off the switch and went directly to the router, my problems stopped. This electronic stuff will keep you on your toes!

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Yes, my connection is under an unmanaged switch. I guess I need to add this to one of the things to test!

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I was having this occasional playback dropout recently for about a week. It seems to have resolved itself with the latest Roon updates.

Are you still having these cutouts during playback?

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I’m no longer using this setup and will stop using Roon entirely.

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