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Bernardo C

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  1. I've also tried Roon for a few days and decided to cancel my trial way before the period ended. Here's the feedback I gave to them, based on what I saw it doing (or not doing) to my music library: "The tagging still have a long way to go to be close to ideal and justify the costs. Two good examples of what I am saying: you categorise the Brazilian artist Chico Buarque as bossa nova. He's not a bossa nova musician. Then I removed the tagging, but his albums are still marked as bossa nova. So, removing the tag from the artist does not remove the tag from his albums. These are two tagging failures in one example. Secondly, the violin player of Dave Matthews Band, Boyd Tinsley, is only associated with one of the band's album, although I have 54 albums of the band and he has played in all of them. Very upsetting! Another problem I have is that it doesn't seem to be possible to organise albums by audio resolution. I have flac and DSD versions of the same album, I'd like to be able to know before selecting the album which one I'm choosing (these are separate masterings of the same album, by the way, reason why I want them both there). The software is an effort that I can appreciate, but you are really aiming too high with that price mark in my opinion. Spotify or Apple Music leaves you in the dust in terms of tagging accuracy, I'm sorry to say. And music quality aside, I can listen to 30,000 songs anywhere with a subscription to one of these services. With Roon I have to buy a subscription to keep my own purchased music files (or Tidal) presented in an interesting way, but this is failing in my opinion. For a fraction of the cost I could probably bear with the amount of extra work I'd have to do with Roon to give full meaning to categorisation or my music library. There's no way I'm spending the asking price to do half of the work myself."
  2. I'm also running the official release of Yosemite without a problem (little bugs only) on my MacBook Pro Retina. I was initially scared of losing compatibility with apps such as Winebottler (which allows me to run Windows programs directly on Mac) and teleport. Neither app has official support for Yosemite, but they run flawlessly. All my of my more obscure apps do too, and also Handbrake, which was reported not to run. One bug I've noticed is that sometimes the files from a folder disappear in Finder and I need to hide the app and click on the folder again for the files reappear. That's a bad one. I have no comments sound wise, but I doubt there would be any noticeable difference. Audirvana 2 runs smoothly. I researched a lot before updating and can say two things: there's no evidence that a clean install (from scratch) is a better method than the regular update, but you should repair your permissions (Disk Utility) before running the installer to avoid problems when booting with the installer.
  3. The best tools I know for this run only on Windows - foobar2000 (freeware) or dBpoweramp. Both perform audio format conversions well, including downmixing from 5.1 to stereo. I suspect the output from Foobar sounds slightly better and it can even convert a single rip audio file into separate track files via cue sheet.
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