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  1. The Pono Music app uses JRiver as the base and you'll find howls of dismay from Pono users about it on their forum. It does not give iTunes any reason to worry. Seeing the addition of video doesn't change that impression with the regular JRiver Media Centre. Very geeky requiring a massive wiki to learn how to use. Not intuitive at all. I'm hoping functionality makes up for the crude design. Though I can't say I'm impressed so far, (two crashes so far within 2 minutes of starting to import files), and the interface reminds me of a DOS-era file library program. Ugly, at least on my iMac. And while there's a trial for JRiver Media Centre, you have to pay for the JRiver phone app up front.
  2. Wow. I have never got a response from them either on their forum or by email in less than a week.
  3. What I DO like about Roon is that even if you have a large library, I doubt it's as big as Tidal's. And Tidal is the only streaming service that provides CD quality. When you select "Discover" in Roon, you find not only albums and tracks from your library, but from Tidal's. Or searching for music by genre, or composer, or whatever. The Tidal integration makes Roon an extraordinarily rich. (My caveats on operating issues notwithstanding.)
  4. I understand why reviewers are blissful over Roon, but my real world experience with it is that it's not ready for prime time yet. This may be because I have an all Mac system, but the marketing does not make any caveats about Mac users. 1. Roon will take upwards of 15 minutes to launch. As your library gets larger, (which can easily happen if you add Tidal albums to your favourites), the software takes longer and longer to start up. Roon tech support is only provided by a community forum--which strikes me as pretty chintzy for a $200/year piece of software--and after weeks of waiting, Roon developers had me reinstall Roon. That only starts the clock ticking to slow start up again. 2. Roon has yet to see my 2 Apple Tv's, which are always seen by iTunes or any other program, including any net testing software I run. To their credit, Roon developers, via their community support forum, have claimed to fix this in their latest update after my initial query 6 months ago, but their latest update does NOT fix it. 3. You really need a Tidal subscription to make Roon worthwhile, so add that cost when evaluating this. Having paid for Roon after the initial 2 week trial, you can't get out of it or get a refund. But at this point, I won't be renewing.
  5. FYI, Chris, the Vox Loop app for iPhone finally started seeing music today! I started a thread on their forum about my issue and had a LOT of other users complaining as well. Vox developers kept stating they were working on a solution and today, it looks like they solved it.
  6. It appears that the beta version of the desktop app with Loop is the one that couldn't find iTunes. So in reverting to the non-beta version that works, I can't use Loop yet. My version doesn't have the little arrow. See screenshot.
  7. Vox Help responded and instructed me to uninstall the desktop app using AppCleaner and then redownloading and installing from a link they provided. The new version still didn't load iTunes. Then Vox Help instructed me to load iTunes from WITHIN Vox preferences and this worked. Now if I could just figure out how to upload music to I'm synced with my phone!
  8. The problem is with the Vox desktop application for Mac. It either hangs on start up or can't find iTunes. So I'm unable to upload any music to even test the iPhone app. I'll remove everything and start over, but as I said, their support forum is full of similar complaints going back several versions.
  9. Not sure, to be honest. I just clicked the link in the email invite I received. Which is the preferred site/version?
  10. I went ahead and got the email invitation from Coppertino, but the apps aren't really working. In my case, the desktop app doesn't see iTunes and based on the numerous complaints in their site forum going back several versions, this is obviously an ongoing issue they have not solved.
  11. If you rip blu-ray using MakeMKV's "backup" you get the blu-ray on your HD that you can play without using your physical disc. (I use Mac Blu-ray Player). This gives you the high-res audio plus any video as well. (Listening to Neil Young/Crazy Horse's Psychadelic Pill and there's video throughout.) I also get the audio only files using DVDAExtractor for streaming use.
  12. Does AnyDVD rip blu-ray? Nothing on their website indicates that it does.
  13. As explained in the thread already, you need to use the backup command in MakeMKV to make a decrypted version of the blu-ray disc first. Then run that through DVDAExtractor.
  14. Update: DVDAExtractor tech support claimed the flaw is in Fidelia as ALAC files played correctly in Audacity. To test, I ripped a blu-ray using DVD Audio Extractor's FLAC encoder AND ALAC encoder. Both files played correctly in Audacity, but the ALAC did not play correctly in Fidelia but FLAC did. Files converted to ALAC from FLAC by CDMax could be played correctly by Fidelia. So it appears DVDAExtractor is okay but certain music software may not be for high res ALAC.
  15. Further info: I re-ripped a blu-ray using MakeMKV/DVD Audio Extractor and this time used FLAC with the same bitrate/sample rate as when I used ALAC. This time the FLAC files played correctly in Fidelia. Doesn't this mean that DVD Audio Extractor's ALAC encoder has a bug?
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