Streaming from Tidal starts with noise and then is fine

[ged_hickman1]

Managed switches seem to be a pain with roon.
The advice seems to be to toggle igmp on or off to get it to a known state.
Here’s a long thread with lots of explanation if you are looking for some quiet reading

Is Multicast / IGMP needed?

This is a confusing thread. Got some time so I’ll try to summarize some networking terminology to help. Roon requires that all devices are on the “same network”. What that really means is the same “broadcast domain”. In networking we define different layers with regard to what part of the components is responsible for making things work. The first 3 layers are: Physical Data Link Network Physical - This is your ethernet switches, cabling, network interfaces, etc. Everything you can touch. Da…