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.
I can assure you that at 1:00 a.m., with a bottle of Malbec on board and a head full of indica, most users (particularly myself) have a low tolerance for technical complexity, whatever their background. |
@pvnasby for sure for most everyone I know would feel similar. But since when did technical challenges stop audiophiles in their pursuit of excellence? We are too awesome for that, right? Tweaking is our middle name! Roon is just another thing to tweak as needed. Or not. To each their own. Many ways to skin a cat. Roon is awesome and worth the effort IMHO. You will learn a lot along the way. I know I have and am a better audiophile now for doing it.
Cheers! |
@mapman , Truly. I really loved Roon. Thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread until the 14th time I was fairly squiffed and got the dreaded “can’t locate Roon Core” error. This on a wired network with a Node 2i. Was considering getting a Nucleus but now I’m feeling some Innuos. In years past i would have been happy to tinker with it. Now I’m getting olde and cranky and I just want stuff to work. |
Prior to my present relatively sophisticated streaming setup I used a series of modified Mac Minis, the last ran just fine with Roon and huge library of rips and streams. I was running a stock cpu, both Core and Endpoint on the mini. I did have a quality network at that time, all wired, 1.5M longest LAN/ethernet cable, 500mb service at that time. So streamer nothing exceptional, network has always been optimized and stable since running Roon. |
@sns providing an example of a well behaved Roon setup that is affordable is very valuable info. Thanks. Also consistent with what I have read about Mac mini being a good choice for running Roon core/server. Mac mini will be a step up from my current mini pc but guess what, even the mini PC fits the bill fairly well ( even with maxing out the CPU to some extent) so I am not in a rush. |
