DSNORD

Bob, The power down, untick everything, restart, power up trick made no difference. Same error messages. Maybe A+3 will be able to output to a MOD. If not, I just have to live with it like this. Bummer because the Yggy and Dragonfly are on separate systems, and I can output to both running at the same time with the competitions' products but not A+. DSNORD Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile

Mavericks 10.9.5. MIDI/sound settings have been played with ad nauseum. My MOD works fine through ROON, iTunes, Pure Music. A+ plays fine when I assign it Audioquest, Schiit, or Dante alone. Grouping them into a MOD though chokes it for some reason and generates the above error messages. Audirvana just can't output to a MOD it seems. DSNORD Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile

Still get the same error message with ALL settings of SysOp, Exclusive Mode, Direct Mode, and Integer Mode turned off. I get an "Unable to grab exclusive access OSError=_hog" error in Header: Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile

I get this error message when trying to output to a Multi-Output Device. I'm not sure what is hogging things. The individual components work okay individually. Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile

Thanks for the help. The Structured Filter screen was showing up as a large blank area with nothing in it except for a tiny set of up/down arrows in the upper right corner. I never saw them, so it didn't occur to me to click on them to see what they were for. It works beautifully now!!! Major problem down. Now if I can just figure out how to get A+ to output to a Multi-Output Device as described on my above note, I'll be good to go!!! DSNORD Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile

Also, A+ App has an Artists view list. Audirvana 2.6 does not have this as far as I can tell. Am I stupidly missing a setting somewhere to activate this on my computer? All I can see are Album and Track lists. Sometimes I just want to quickly plow through a list of all my Artists until I find one I want to listen to. I don't want to wade through a bazillion Album cover flow pics to accomplish something that is extremely simple to do in Pure Music/iTunes or Sonos! DSNORD Sent from my iPhone using Computer Audiophile

Does Audirvana support MIDI Multi-Output Device (MOD) use on a Mac? I have a MOD set up that consists of an Audioquest Dragonfly, Schiit Audio Yggdrasil, and Dante Virtual Sound Card. iTunes, Roon, and Pure Music output to all 3 devices of the MOD, but Audirvana won't recognize the MOD. I have to manual choose which individual device I want Audirvana to use, and then it plays fine. The problem is that the Dragonfly and Yggdrasil feed separate systems, and I can't get them to play simultaneously with Audirvana but I can with the 3 other players. This limits Audirvana's value to me in spite of it sounding slightly better and having some desirable features that the others lack. Thanks for the help. DSNORD

Well, figured out the Audirvana 2.2.2 Port 1-2 issue I mentioned above when I was testing it to see if it was better sounding than Pure Music/Roon which are my 2 standing OSX players. Audirvana was setting my Yggy (DAC) to MUTE for some reason when I switched out of it on Ports1-2 but was leaving the Dragonfly alone. Dope-o boy here failed to notice the frickin' little check mark in the mute box for the Master Channel all the way over on the right side of the Shiit Audio Gen 3 box in Audio Devices under Audio Midi Setup. Duh. Unchecked it, and Ports 1-2 now output to Yggy appropriately. Why it affected only those 2 ports and not the other 3 for Yggy and yet leave the Dragonfly untouched on all 5 is still a mystery. Others on CA are noticing the same Mute issue. Seems like a bug in the latest release since people report no such issue from earlier releases. Buyer beware. Now that I've got it figured out, maybe I'll give it another shot. Big waste of about 5 hours though ripping my hair out trying to solve the problem only to find it to be something so simple yet unexpected and therefore overlooked. Left a really bad taste in my mouth especially since Pure Music and Roon both work flawlessly for me. The enemy of "GOOD" is definitely "BETTER." LIVE AND LEARN. DSNORD

Resetting Mini, DAC (Yggy), amp (Rag), nothing corrects this except booting the Mini from a clean install disk having only Mavericks on it. I open iTunes contained on that clean install, and now Ports 1 and 2 are back working. Reboot from the Mini, and now they don't work again. DSNORD

I need help with an Schiit Yggy USB problem that surfaced last night. The Setup: Mac Mini late 2012 2.6 GHz i7 Quad core 16G RAM OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 pointing at iTunes library on a WD 2T USB 3 drive. Mini outputs via a Multi-Output Device consisting of Yggy (USB 3 Port 2) and Audioquest Dragonfly (USB 3 Port 1). Remaining 3 USB 3 Ports cover my cd drive, a NEC monitor, and a USB 3 10 Port switch. Main System: Mini>Wyrd>Yggy>Ragnarok>KEF LS50 over Straightwire USB cables. Backup System: Mini>Dragonfly>Bose Companion 3 over Straightwire USB cables. Music Players: Roon/Pure Music integer/direct modes or basic iTunes. Native sample rates. Yggy is on separate non-switched power and runs 24/7 (per Mike Moffat!). Wyrd/Rag are controlled by separate switch and are turned on only for use. Everything has been fine until last night when I was auditioning the Trial version of Audirvana 2.2.1 in Hog/SysOptimized mode to see if was the better player. It wouldn’t run because it said something was hogging the output in spite of Roon/Pure Music not running at the same time although they had been used earlier that night. I opened Midi Audio Devices, deselected the Multi-Output Device, selected only the Schiit Audio Gen 3 Device, restarted the Wyrd/Rag to resynch, then Audirvanna played fine over both sound systems. I then went to A-B the sound by switching back to the other players, but nothing played over the Yggy using Roon/PM/iTunes but each played fine over the Dragonfly. Restarting Wyrd/Rag and switching between the various audio drivers was fruitless. Thinking that Audirvana somehow now was hogging everything, I proceeded to delete every trace of it by trashing the application itself and all library preference files and caches I could discover after a fairly exhaustive Google search. Still a NO GO. For some reason, the Mini’s USB Ports 1 and 2 are now corrupted in the following fashion: iTunes/Pure Music/Roon play out ALL USB Ports through Audioquest Dragonfly>Bose Setup. ALL other devices work okay in ALL ports. Rag digital optical input from a Sonos works fine, so Rag digital is okay. iTunes/Pure Music/Roon WILL NOT play out USB Port 1 and 2 through Yggy>Ragnarok Setup but WILL play out USB Port 3-5. This does not change no matter how many times I have tried to repair disk permissions, rebooted the Mini, reset PRAM and the SMC/PMU, switched the Yggy and Wyrd/Rag on/off, and I even left the Yggy unplugged overnight to see if that would help, but nothing works. I’ve run USB from my MacBook Pro over the same Straightwire in Port 2 used to feed Yggy, and it works fine. So cabling is okay. When I switch Sample Rates in MIDI Audio Device , the Yggy clicks appropriately and switches lights letting me know that it is seeing that rate change request appropriately, but still no music plays out of Yggy on Port 1 or 2 but does on Port 3-5. So in short, the Rag, Dragonfly/Bose, and all connected peripherals work fine on ALL ports. Yggy works on Ports 3-5 but no longer works on Ports 1 and 2. And this all developed after running Audirvana in best quality mode. Deleting every piece of Audirvana I could locate made no difference. Schiit support recommended booting into Mavericks from an external clean install drive to see if that corrected the problem. I tried it and successfully recovered Ports 1-2 to feed Yggy. However rebooting back into the Mini confirmed that these 2 ports still have the same problem, and neither feed the Yggy but again work with everything else. So this implies the Mini's software has become corrupted somehow by the Audirvana install. It’s as if the ghost of Audirvana is somehow not releasing those 2 ports that it was original connected to, but then why only to Yggy but not Dragonfly? Does this make any sense? Is there still a piece of Audirvana somewhere I’ve missed? I’m hoping you can help me out beyond “Well, if it’s all working okay now, don’t F with it!!!” I REALLY don't want to go through the hassle of a clean installation at this time and hope to obtain a fairly simple fix if possible. Let me know if you need any more info for consideration. Thanks, DSNORD