In the last few months I have noticed Roon getting a bit more fragile, requiring a few restarts to get things going again. One of the best praise I used to have for Roon was its lightening speed, and lack of baggage as opposed to JRiver for example. Software engineers know that complexity is enemy of reliability and sometimes performance.
The worst happened today though. An hour ago it asked me if I want to upgrade to version 1.7. I said yes as the upgrade is usually so painless. It did its thing but to my shock, it no longer recognizes any local audio devices on my client machine! No amount of restarting the player, refreshing makes it recognize anything but the "system device." Playing music into system device goes some place but clearly not to the default output device as set in Windows:
Windows clearly shows my DX3 Pro selected as default:
I was actually playing music with Roon before it upgraded and decided none of the output devices are there. I have no trouble playing music with other apps from Foobar to Tidal so nothing wrong with the system.
Looking at the Audio Setting, it seems that they completely revamped that section and no doubt broke something:
There isn't even a section that shows local devices (as opposed to core). So no wonder there are no devices to select.
Seeing how they modified this subsystem, it reasons that they have some serious regression here.
I post a note on their forum. Meanwhile, the app is completely non-functional.
I guess they were bound to bet bigger and lose touch with what made them excellent in the past.
Sad....
The worst happened today though. An hour ago it asked me if I want to upgrade to version 1.7. I said yes as the upgrade is usually so painless. It did its thing but to my shock, it no longer recognizes any local audio devices on my client machine! No amount of restarting the player, refreshing makes it recognize anything but the "system device." Playing music into system device goes some place but clearly not to the default output device as set in Windows:
Windows clearly shows my DX3 Pro selected as default:
I was actually playing music with Roon before it upgraded and decided none of the output devices are there. I have no trouble playing music with other apps from Foobar to Tidal so nothing wrong with the system.
Looking at the Audio Setting, it seems that they completely revamped that section and no doubt broke something:
There isn't even a section that shows local devices (as opposed to core). So no wonder there are no devices to select.
Seeing how they modified this subsystem, it reasons that they have some serious regression here.
I post a note on their forum. Meanwhile, the app is completely non-functional.
I guess they were bound to bet bigger and lose touch with what made them excellent in the past.
Sad....