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Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it

I just had to post this somewhere, and their moderators won't allow it on the Roon forum.  Just so people know, it is not an open forum when it comes to comments about Roon or its stability.  

Their moderators edit and delete posts.  It can get a little Orwellian.  

There are users that have identified severe resource leaks or situations where the Roon software pegs a single core in a CPU until Roon has to restart, causing drop-outs in audio as well as very slow responsiveness.  

The moderators must all be severe fanboys.  

Take it for what it's worth.  I just want potential users to understand they may not get the most complete picture by reviewing the Roon forum.  And sure, I understand that moderators moderate.  When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. 

jji666

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brothermikes
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I too started experiencing major performance issues with Roon requiring regular reboots about 6 months ago after running great for several years on a M1 Mac Mini with 8gb ram.

All end points and remotes became extremely sluggish and/or non-responsive even with Roon being the only app running on the M1 Mac Mini server.

I have since semi-permanently installed my M3 MacBook Pro with 18gb ram on my desktop, and am now running that as my Roon server and everything is running great again.

I suspect the combination of recent Mac updates coupled with Roon updates are using more resources than in the past, thereby causing performance issues for Roon users.

As an aside, I have more powerful Windows and Linux devices that I can use as my Roon server without issue, but I find that I get slightly better sound quality running from my M series Macs for some reason.

 

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