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Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus

I have an original Roon Nucleus with a SSD drive in it.  Around 3GB of music.  Together with Tidal, Roon tells me that I have 2039 Artists, 4312 Albums, 61239 tracks, and 136 composers.  That is likely more than most users, but not as many as some of you, so I have read.
 

On a fairly regular basis, Roon has these brain farts moments, lasting 10-15 minutes, where I get the twirling Roon Icon and the system is shut down from playback.  It always eventually comes back. I don’t know the technical term, but I think it is a resort, reorganizing, re-something to the whole data base of music.  It always happens at the most inopportune time. Roon online forum has never come clean for me with an answer/fix.

I have revamped my Ethernet cabling and both the Roon Nucleus and the DAC/Streamer are mainlined, so I know it is not network drop outs.

I’ve read that others have had a similar problem, but never read a solution.  I have been looking into several angles to stop this.  (1) Upgrade to the Roon Nucleus Titan. (2) Checking out to see if some other Roon Ready Server is a better functioning piece of equipment, like the Innous.

I have two DACs/Servers in the house - BlueSound & dCS Lina - and they both have the same brain farts with Roon.  

I really like the functionality of Roon on the Nucleus.  My issue is not sound quality of Roon, it is the performance.  I must admit, that in all of my reading I have not been able to compare the functionality of a Roon Ready Innous vs. Roon Nucleus, or any other Streamer that folks mention here on the forum.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

pgaulke60
bassbuyer
490 posts
 

The operating system is the weak link with some equipment including Roon in my experience.  I have an Innuos Zen MK3 and switched the settings from Roon to the Innuos Sense app streaming Qobuz.  No issues.  Now able to use the Qobuz app still using the Innuos streamer.  

mahler123
3,612 posts
 

I am not an IT guy but sounds like it could be a lack of computing power.  It’s a power hungry program.  Placing it on their dedicated servers was supposed to be a fix but I suspect that the demands of upgraded software have outstripped the computing ability of these servers

boostedis
125 posts
 

IMO, none of you understand what the OP is experiencing! As a longtime Roon user, the platform was near perfect until they got bought by Harmon! This is when Roon began to ‘hang up’ repeatedly during listening sessions. The suggestions given are all good connectivity practices, but the problem is with Roon itself, not a particular user issue or setup or combination of gear. 
 

Also, the suggestions of using some other file rendering platform is a little short-sighted because I’m not aware of one as powerful, intuitive and complete as Roon especially for the artist metadata and layout. You are comparing a Carrola to a Ferrari! 

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audphile1
5,643 posts
 

Pretty sure it’s the processing on the old Nucleus that’s at fault. 
My roon core is on the 2018 Mac Mini with 8GB RAM. Nothing fancy. It’s been solid. Hope disabling the back end scans and DSP if necessary will resolve the Roon brain farts. 

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phishhhhh4
150 posts
 

Room needs to create software that just works with the avg subscribers computers 

This:

throttling the background processing as suggested helps reserve processing power for other tasks so that is a good idea. 

Shouldn't even be a thing 

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