I look forward to seeing what improvements it brings to the table, because I’m still in the last couple of weeks of a one-cent, 90-day trial period, and haven’t made up my mind yet whether to stay on. I love the metadata, but at times it feels like it’s adding overhead in terms of system and connection resources. I’ve had it dropout on occasion, while displaying messages that the stream from Qobuz or Tidal is slow, but when I switch directly to those services instead of through Roon, or access them through BluOS, it doesn’t happen. Granted, my internet is not great, but it’s the world I have to live in.
Hi Craig, most performance issues at Roon are related to networking or minimum equipment specs. Roon Core needs to be hardwired to work right.
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Yeah, well, that’s never going to happen in this house. Good to know.
Given my experience, I think this is an overstatement. My Roon Core is on an iMac that “feeds” my big rig via Wi-Fi.
The iMac is in a different room on a different floor from the router that feeds Ethernet to my DS/Bridge combo,
If my setup is considered hard wired, then maybe I agree with you after all.
Cheers.
[Edit: I should note that this set up has been very stable for me, since that was the point I meant to make.]
Yeah, in my case the cable modem is in the living room, and the rest is a wifi mesh network, with the Core installed on an iMac in another room. No chance of running ethernet cable at all.
I ended up adding a new endpoint, which is in-fact my old rooncore fanless server. The system as a whole is running better from the remote access perspective, which is the biggest win I detect. Both are directly connected to my router which isn’t close to my audio. Not sure how the sound could be better, but sure seems like a lot of people (here and everywhere) suggest this network topology, specifically for SQ, over my former rooncore feeding my Matrix -XSPDIF into DSD. I’m still on the fence about these three being audio , or SQ related…cat8, usb, and hdmi cables and that same being on the fence applies to the change in network topolgy (only strickly audio…it works better and that’s a score). It must be isolating the RAAT that makes the sound presummably better.
When I used wifi I had issues, mainly when I started streaming 24/192 files about 7 or 8 years ago. Soon thereafter I put in an ethernet cable and have not had a single problem since. I now have the cables, two CAT6a and optical.
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Roon 1.8 app for iOS is available now from Apple.
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I’ve downloaded and installed the update to 1.8. So far so good. It could be my old ears but it sounds slightly different for the better. Navigation will take a while to sort out.
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Installed as well. All is well 
I haven’t upgraded, but I haven’t seen a single problem reported.
Roon 1.8 has a brand new feature called dark mode. It seems nice.
They should have done this before.
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MacOS based Roon core and several other Macbooks are all running fine after updating.
Excellent news.
I hope it goes well for everyone.
It was pretty easy here… it sounds wonderful.
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Dark mode isn’t new. It think it’s been there since 1.6. I’ve never seen it advertised though which is a shame as I suspect a good % would prefer it.
Same here. No issues. Sounds great. I note that the processing speed seems to be higher on MQA albums – about 67x vs. earlier, when it was 20-30x I believe. Relevant?
Upgraded to find I didn’t even lose the song I had paused. Impressive.
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The Focus feature is absolutely brilliant. Allows you to do a very simple search and then filter down very quickly to find the recording you want or all the recordings within your filter choices.
It’s very intuitive and looks good.
The app seems to work faster. On Android the app file is smaller.
IT"S CRASHED !!!
The Roon Labs Community has folded under the pressure. Roon is running fine.