Occasional dropouts, where the first split second of certain tracks on an ad hoc Roon playlist will skip before commencing to play. I never get dropouts after that point and if I drag the misbehaving track back to the queue, it almost always plays perfectly the next time around. Gear: Digi+ Pro on a 2 MB Raspberry Pi 4 via a Cat 7 connection to a 3 TB Apple Time Capsule containing lossless FLACs. Roon running on a newish iMac w/ SSD. Time Capsule talks to iMac via WiFi about 1 foot away from the iMac. Related(?): recently discovered that gapless playback of albums had been hindered by having WiFi on at the HiFiBerry main page on the iMac's browser (Safari). Turning WiFi off to the Digi+ Pro ensured that Cat 7 Ethernet was the only signal to the RPi.
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HiFiBerry team What software are you using on the Pi?
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Islandfolk I'm using HiFiBerry OS.
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HiFiBerry team Unfortunately we haven't seen something like this here. If you're using only Roon, I first recommend to disable all unused music services under "Sources".
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Shagmuf I'm having similar issues Islandfolk.. did you ever figure out what it was?
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Islandfolk I've had mixed results trying as many recommendations from Roon's help section 'Troubleshooting Audio Dropouts' https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/troubleshooting-audio-dropouts
The Resync Delay is the most straightforward and I set that as high as I could, but the problem has not been eliminated completely. The vast majority of my FLAC files are on an Apple Time Capsule, which transmits via WiFi less than 2 ft to my iMac. The Raspberry Pi is a wired connection from the Time Capsule, but Roon does recommend having EVERYTHING hardwired for the best performance. I haven't tried relocating the FLAC files that seem to be the culprits onto the iMac and see if that is the issue. My next iMac will need to have a minimum 2 TB SSD, so that all WiFi is taken out of the equation.