Is Roon compatible with Sonoma? The final candidate developer release dropped today.
Not any problem here!
Have been running roon on the Sonoma Beta for weeks now. No issue
As I said, this is a final candidate release, so we are near the end of the beta cycle. It will likely be released next week. I assume Room has been looking at it recently. I was just curious if they were any major problems before your audience updates. Now would be the time
I have not been able to use Roon since the beta. I keep getting asked, “Are you online?” I’ve tried with and without a VPN. Still not working with the final candidate release either.
Ugh. This is what I was afraid of. Software is difficult. I understand that. Communication should not be quite as difficult. I would hope Roon would make some sort of announcement before the release of the new operating system. I don’t care if it’s a “good to go” or “don’t upgrade”, but just let us know.
This was the only forum thread about a possible, though unconfirmed, Sonoma problem, not so long ago, and Danny’s response. Whether problems existed and whether they are fixed, I don’t know. Beta is about finding unknown problems, though, and you have to make your own decisions
That thing keeps coming up in lots of threads without any beta, though. Probably related to the recent SSO change in Roon, I would guess
So I fiddled around and figured out there was some issue with safari connecting to the internet but Chrome worked fine. When I turned on a VPN both browsers worked. Roon didn’t work no matter what. I have a second Mac mini that mimicked the issues. I changed some network settings and restarted. Also, deleted all my extensions but not sure if that had any effect. Roon is back up and running and the browsers are running fine with or without the VPN. I do think it is a Sonoma issue more than Roon because it was on both Macs.
I have this very annoying issue in Sonoma, that I start an album remotely in Roon from my desktop computer running MacOS 14, and my Roon core (a remote Mac mini, also running MacOS 14) starts playing not only through the DAC but also on the default audio output on my desktop computer (which is not the Roon core, just running a Roon for remote control there). So the music comes both through the DAC & headphones, as well as through the speakers of my monitor. And when I go to Roon settings I can see that the default audio of my desktop computer was never configured. So why is Roon sending music there? Then I tried to control the Roon core from my iPad but the music still reached the default audio of my desktop Mac. The only way to stop it was making it sleep or restarting it (or as a workaround setting the default output to an inaudible device). Never experienced this issue with MacOS versions before 14. Extremely annoying.
Is there an official Roon position on whether it is Sonoma compatible? I’ve search a bit and come up empty other than this thread
My M2 Mac Mini with 16 GB Ram running Roon Server 2.0 (build 1311) fine without any issue. The only issue that I’ve come across is that if your Mac Mini is headless, you may have issue with the audio output of the MacOS Screen Sharing app as @GaborL pointed out earlier.
Roon runs flawlessly on my base model M1 MacBook Pro. 
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“I changed some network settings.” Can you elaborate?
I was forced to update to Sonoma this morning and now neither Roon or Kazoo can find any endpoints, or whatever iti is that Roon calls them. . It only offers the System option.
I changed my DNS settings, disabled all my safari extensions and then restarted my router and Macs. Safari would not connect to the internet and that was the real issue as to why Roon wasn’t working at all. I couldn’t even sign in. I am not sure our issues are the same. Good luck.
Thanks, Jonathan. My story ended up being pretty simple. It all started when I booted up on Sunday AM and neither my mouse or keyboard worked. After an hour of researching the problem I called Apple. The tech told me that my first step should be to ensure that my operating system was up to date.I was expecting another flavor of Ventura. My mistake was not saying, “Wait a minute” when I learned it was a major and very recent update. But I went ahead and when the system cam back up Roon could not find anything that was not on my Mac Mini. By then the tech was gone and I felt stuck. After agonizing most of Sunday I decided to roll back my OS to Ventura since I have a complete Time Machine backup from last Saturday. This morning, on a lark, I decided to first try simply reinstalling Sonoma. What the hell. To my surprise it worked and I am up and running again. Proving once again that it’s better to be lucky than good.
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