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  1. On the other hand I think car audio has, on net, had a negative impact on digital mastering. You couldn't play vinyl in the car so there was no road noise to overcome and pretty much no Loudness Wars. Just a theory...
  2. Good point. Although I gotta say, car audio in nice cars can be very satisfying. The manufacturers have control over the one crucial parameter home audio manufacturers have no control over: the listening room.
  3. Apple may be 6% of worldwide PCs but that's partly because business uses Windows machines. I'd be curious to know what percentage of this forum is on Apple. I'd bet it's a lot more.
  4. Yeah, yeah, I know. We can all pretend that we never listen to mp3 or have any in our libraries for "audiophile" reasons. I don't buy it. I have a massive music collection and lots of files from early iTunes days that are mp3, not to mention the occasional Amazon auto-rip while I'm waiting for a record to come in the mail, songs people gave me, and the list goes on. We all own mp3s. Besides, I don't select what I listen to for audiophile reasons because I don't want to be constrained to playing David Chesky records or the equivalent. Some of my favorite stuff is old and has recorded imperfections that overwhelm the relatively-slight difference between file formats. I still enjoy and want to listen to them, whatever the file format. If it were something platform specific, like ALAC, I could understand not including it, but mp3 is still the most pervasive format and should be included.
  5. Thanks Jussi, So I see! This is working now so I feel like I saw a ghost. The Structure Only view works fine. It also shows me only the files HQP can play and ignores the mp3s, which is convenient, though i still humbly request that HQ Player be compatible with the most ubiquitous music file format, mp3, warts and all. Then I won't have to use the other players anymore. Thanks again, Geno
  6. That second view is pretty much what I'm looking for. Should I be using the Artist filter field instead of (or in addition to) "File > Library... > Add..." to accomplish this? Maybe I should just add my entire Music directory and use asterisked filter commands (by the way, I too was unaware of the need for asterisks when filtering so it hasn't worked for me till now). Almost all my tags were painstakingly edited in iTunes, manually. I'm guessing the way most people have their stuff tagged is similar to mine and that few use "Last Name, First Name" or many other non-iTunes conventions in their existing database, but I could be wrong. Most of us Apple users, at least, built our libraries in iTunes before there were other player options.
  7. Thanks. For some reason I thought it was still listing everything by Composer when I did this. Does it matter how high in the hierarchy you add the tree? It'd be nice if it just presented the folders the way Finder does in this option, by Artist first with Albums as subdirectories of Artist (or if there was some checkbox that did this).
  8. Thanks Jud, Any idea how to set that up? I tried the "Structure only" checkbox under "File > Library..." and it didn't import the folders in the tree hierarchy that exists on my drive. This would be best if it worked, since my folders are already sorted by Artist > Album. Geno
  9. I get that there are classical listeners out there. I'm one myself, among other genres. Most people don't listen to only classical. Even those who do usually search by performer (and in any case don't call Beethoven the "artist" in a Kempf Beethoven Sonata cycle). Why is the primary sorting field in HQ Player "Artist" and why does this link to the underlying "Composer" tag? Don't most people search by artist (as in "Performer") rather than by composer? It makes the Library tree difficult to navigate and sort on, and leads me to drag and drop songs, rendering the entire upper part of the interface unusable. Am I doing it wrong? Entering the artist's name in the Performer filter doesn't reliably screen for the songs I'm trying to play. Sorry if this has been solved already but does anybody have any tips for finding and playing music the way one might do in, say, iTunes or Audirvana? (For example: Carpenters > Carpenters > Superstar.aiff, and not Leon Russell > Carpenters > Carpenters > Superstar.aiff.)
  10. Did you do the Terminal fix in Bob's post #201 or the one in his post #203, and what sound quality increase are you referring to? I don't see where that's discussed.
  11. Thanks! I thought you meant Bob Stern but wasn't sure.
  12. Sorry to be a dunderhead but could somebody please repeat what Bob said or paste his instruction here? (Or if that's too much trouble tell us his screen-name if its not "Bob"?)
  13. Mine is 1.5m too. Like I say, I have no idea if this is the problem or if somehow the new OS has weakened the USB ports. Just thought I'd throw it out there. I actually might have shorted mine while switching cables; the power levels have been low since then. But if more people are having the same dropouts I doubt a shorted port is the cause. Plus, it hasn't happened in Pure Music, my other player, though I use that player less since discovering HQ Player.
  14. My USB ports are recently low in power. I have a feeling this might have something to do with the uglier, more garbled dropouts I'm getting. The ports only power very short computer cords these days; audiophile cords and a cord in combination with an iFI Purifier can't carry a strong electrical signal. I don't know for sure if this has anything to do with the dropouts, let alone the OS, but my suspicion is piqued that it could be the problem.
  15. This happens to me too.
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