This release appears to be much more responsive on my Ubuntu box, good.
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Installed about an hour ago. It seems very snappy on my 8th generation i3 NUC running Roon Rock. It’s noticeably quicker loading album and artist information and flipp8ng to the discography pages.
I’ve noticed some slow downs recently after about of a week of uptime, easily resolved with a reboot so I’m hoping the performance I’m seeing now will be maintained.
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Running super fast on my 8th generation i5 NUC, impressive!
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Just did the full update. First response is similar to what others wrote: significantly quicker and responding way, way better.
I’ll keep some reservations for the moment though: the last months I noticed Roon got slower every time I used it. Only a reboot of Roon Rock on my NUC (i5 with 8gb) brought it back to reasonable performance, but days later the slowing-down started again. Almost like it’s cache or memory ran “full”. Therefore prefer to use the new version for a while and see how it behaves over the next days and weeks. First impressions ar every promising though.
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Have you tried clearing your Roon cache? I’m not sure why it needs a cache but when I clear it everything speeds up. Just a thought…
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Hey @rossd , I think a very good thought. Haven’t done that in the past. I’ll keep it in mind.
Playing with the new Roon update a few hours now, and things remain very performant so far. Fingers crossed
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Caching is generaly used to read frequently used data from memory rather than to read again from disk or remotely from network. They are important for good performance. Without them performance will seem sluggish, especially with user interfaces.
They can on occasion become corrupted in some way and need to be purged. That was the root cause of all the recent Qobuz issues recently. But mostly caches are a good thing. The technology has been around for awhile and is very mature.
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Yes I understand the concept, but why does Roon get more responsive when it is cleared? Seems the opposite?
Are you talking about the image cache that you can clear from the UI. I’ve never cleared it unless I deleted library entries.
Roon’s cache can become corrupted or bloated over time, which paradoxically slows down the application rather than speeding it up. I think Roon mention officially that manual cache clearing is deprecated, and they recommend instead that users simply restart the Roon Server or reboot your box if you are using Roon Rock.
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If running Roon ROCK, that restarts on every new update anyway, which is somewhat frequently.
My Titan is much snappier.
The Devs on Roon forum have stated, clearly, that additional gains are to be expected in future updates.
Hi all,
I have an “old” Qnap which will be affected by this update.
Bizarrely i have just got back to using Roon for headphone listening. I have been able to dramatically improve my HD820’s with a bit of “Roon Tweaking”!
My QNAP is old and great for backing up “my stuff”! Suffice to say going forward it won’t support all the latest n greatest updates…so what would you guys recommend so that i can get back on the Roon platform. I haven’t thought of a budget at this stage!
I also thought my SonicTransporter I7 Gen3 was fast before with Roon, but it’s super fast now.
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The reason that te latest version of Roon cannot be installed on many QNAPs is down to QNAP not updating the SSL and glibc components that QNAP seem unable to update. Apparently they havent updated these in 10 years and the versions that Roon stipulate are hardly new having been released in 2018!
To overcome this you can run the latest version of Roon in a container. You need to install Container Station on your QNAP and then follow the guides on the Roon website. There’s plenty of information on the Roon forum as well.
I run Roon Rock which is a poor mans Nucleus. You purchase a supported NUC computer and then install Rock which turns the computer into a Roon server appliance. It’s straightforward if you have reasonable IT knowledge. You have to download and create a bootable USB stick and then boot from this and install the operating system. You only have to do this once and it takes minutes to install.
The easy option is the Nucleus One. This cists £699 and is basically an NUC in a fancy case setup and ready to go.
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I have been running Roon 2.65 in EA for some time, across multiple Builds.
The RAM usage and management, particularly during the ‘Scheduled Activity’ did dramatically improve over the cycle of 2.65 builds - with 24/36 hour analysis based off logs showing peak usage down and improved memory management following the nominated window, during and following playback.
Didn’t notice any great performance improvement while using Roon at home, on my home network, but have a ‘1GBit/s everywhere’ network setup across wired and WiFi devices, a NUC7i7DNK based ROCK server with 16GB RAM & fast NVMe SSD, with local library on NAS with a 8TB library of 108k tracks/8k albums (over 70% in 24bit/HiRes formats and the remaining all lossless - purged mostly all lossy content), so pretty optimised for streaming & playback.
I am travelling at present (since the last EA build & production release of 2.65) but Roon ARC usage has been definitively faster to ‘wake back up’, search for content, establish playback stream, and continue a playback stream - all requiring good server & network performance.
So well done Roon team on 2.65 and looking forward to further releases and improvements, as it has been stated “we’ll be focusing on features that center on your music library, rather than non-library streaming content.”
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A quick play (I have ROCK) and it seems much more responsive, which is great it was getting very ponderous at times.
.sjb
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Anyone updated their Innuos server yet, running ok?
Many thanks.
I listen to playlists quite often and have never experienced the sort of performance issues you appear to have - I’m running Roon ROCK on an Intel NUC.
The issue has not resurfaced since the latest release, at least not yet. I think playlists increase the probability of hitting a bad track during the CDN transition, and it has nothing to do with the fact that you are using ROCK or not.
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