Audirvana 3.1

[mansr]

4 hours ago, catastrofe said:

Interesting, thanks for the input.  I wonder why that is?. . .a primary purpose of DLNA is compatibility across devices and manufacturers.

DLNA has so many options and different ways of doing the same thing that nobody stands a chance of implementing it correctly. The spec being an unreadable mess doesn't help either.

[catastrofe]

3 hours ago, vortecjr said:

Funny you should ask because there is a firmware available for their hardware that now allows you to use it with A+. Same goes for the Sonore Rendu (i2s / SPDIF), Weiss, Bel Canto, and Empirical Audio.

Thanks JR, I wasn't aware of MSB's update, I'll check it out.

[catastrofe]

6 hours ago, vortecjr said:

Funny you should ask because there is a firmware available for their hardware that now allows you to use it with A+. Same goes for the Sonore Rendu (i2s / SPDIF), Weiss, Bel Canto, and Empirical Audio.

Well, nothing on their website about a renderer update. . .

[vortecjr]

7 hours ago, mansr said:

DLNA has so many options and different ways of doing the same thing that nobody stands a chance of implementing it correctly. The spec being an unreadable mess doesn't help either.

nobody stands a chance and resistance is futile:)

[vortecjr]

3 hours ago, catastrofe said:

Well, nothing on their website about a renderer update. . .

Not everyone moves as fast as we do, but they have been told the firmware update is available.

[catastrofe]

3 hours ago, vortecjr said:

Not everyone moves as fast as we do, but they have been told the firmware update is available.

Thanks!

[mazuly]

If you are into Jazz, play the new GoGo Penguin album (TIDAL - GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star (Deluxe) https://tidal.com/album/84245625 ) through A+.  

 

MY GOD.

 

Using izotop I upsample to DSD 128 feeding my Oppo HA-1 USB by my Macmini.  This is a $1200 DAC and I am blown away.  The soundstage is just CARZY amazing

 

Thank you Damien.

 

Sorry for the intruption guys, I know we all have issues with the software, but every now and then I am blown away by the sound of A+ and what it can do to good recorded music.  Just can’t stop laughing.  Complete joy.

 

Back to music now.............

[rickca]

Whatever happened to A+ on Windows?  Press reports initially said year end 2017, then the end of January 2018.  

@damien78 will there be a public beta for A+ on Windows?  What is a realistic timeframe?

[zackthedog]

8 hours ago, rickca said:

Whatever happened to A+ on Windows?  Press reports initially said year end 2017, then the end of January 2018.  

@damien78 will there be a public beta for A+ on Windows?  What is a realistic timeframe?

 

The Facebook page says he's still working on it, be patient. ;-)

[rruffin]

On 2/10/2018 at 12:37 AM, mazuly said:

Thank you Damien.

 

Sorry for the intruption guys, I know we all have issues with the software, but every now and then I am blown away by the sound of A+ and what it can do to good recorded music.  Just can’t stop laughing.  Complete joy.

 

Back to music now.............

 

Yes, thank you, Damien. I think of you fondly with each listening session!

[stefano_mbp]

Hello, just a question about upsampling to DSD.

I recently bought a new dac, the M2Tech Young DSD (..... wonderful sound compared to the old Cambridge DacMagic Pus!)

The M2Tech Young DSD is not recognized as native DSD capable then I configured Audirvana+ to "DSD over PCM standard 1.1"

Then I configured the upsampling as DSD128, with DSD filter C (7th order), using iZotope 64-bit SRC converter.

- if I play a ALAC or FLAC file the track is upsampled to DSD128

- if I play a DSD64 file the track is not upsampled to DSD128 but is sent to dac as DSD64

 

Is this the right behavior? Isn't Audirvana+ able to upsample DSD64 to DSD128?

 

thanks

[RunHomeSlow]

29 minutes ago, stefano_mbp said:

 

Is this the right behavior? Isn't Audirvana+ able to upsample DSD64 to DSD128?

 

Yes. It cant upsample DSD files for now...

[stefano_mbp]

Thank you

[jimdukey]

I thought Damien said DSD64 would have to converted first to PCM  then

DSD128, like JRiver Media Center.

 

But ( to my knowledge) HQ upsamples DSD64 to DSD128 or more without PCM Conversion.

I think it will upsample Any lower DSD Rate as long as the Dac and OS permit.

 

Has there been any work around or change to AV+ to get Direct Mode in Mac High Sierra?

Without installing the Audio Family Kext File from ElCapitan?

[catastrofe]

On 2/9/2018 at 6:13 PM, vortecjr said:

Not everyone moves as fast as we do, but they have been told the firmware update is available.

I was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of the MSB Renderer firmware update in advance of its public release.  Works like a charm, and sounds great.  Thanks for the heads-up.

[pl_svn]

never noticed before but... here's something really annoying 

two versions of the very same album, dsd128 and dsd256, each one in a folder of its own on the NAS holding my music files... are merged by Audirvana in a single album 

 

no: I don't want to add something to mess with "Album Title" files tag so A+ keeps them apart: they already are in different folders! 

 

[Musicophile]

4 minutes ago, pl_svn said:

never noticed before but... here's something really annoying 

two versions of the very same album, dsd128 and dsd256, each one in a folder of its own on the NAS holding my music files... are merged by Audirvana in a single album 

 

no: I don't want to add something to mess with "Album Title" files tag so A+ keeps them apart: they already are in different folders! 

 

I guess that's one of of the downslides if you use a database-software like A+.

 

A+ doesn't care where your file sits, it only cares about Metadata in the file. So it´ s not a bug, but a feature.

 

I have all my Album names ending e.g. in [DSD64] OR [24/192] (if they are not standard redbook).

[pl_svn]

7 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

I have all my Album names ending e.g. in [DSD64] OR [24/192] (if they are not standard redbook).

 

I do the very same to *folders* containing music files, not files tag and... a well known A+ competitor has no issue with this: it keeps different resolution versions of an album separate and just stacks them 

 

if you modify/add something to an album's title... scrobbling (Last.fm) can't get which album is playing 

[damien78]

Auto split of albums with same title and album artists, but in separate folders is coming in the upcoming 3.x release bringing the UI revamping. Can't promise a date yet  

[pl_svn]

great! thank you Damien 

[One and a half]

1 hour ago, Musicophile said:

I have all my Album names ending e.g. in [DSD64] OR [24/192] (if they are not standard redbook).

heh, I do the same

[Jud]

5 hours ago, Musicophile said:

I guess that's one of of the downslides if you use a database-software like A+.

 

A+ doesn't care where your file sits, it only cares about Metadata in the file. So it´ s not a bug, but a feature.

 

I have all my Album names ending e.g. in [DSD64] OR [24/192] (if they are not standard redbook).

 

I use the track rather than album interface, but use album as one of my primary sorting criteria (after Artist) to keep albums separate.

 

If you do this, the easy way to keep the same album with a different resolution separate is to have resolution as a higher priority sorting criterion than disc#, track#, and track title. 

[austinpop]

Does A+ work with LMS/squeezelite, running the UPnP/DLNA media renderer/server plugin?  In other words, a squeezelite player emulating a UPnP player?

 

I tried enabling the UPnP DLNA media renderer plugin in LMS. In the A+ settings, I can see the player ("Zenith SE player"), but when I select it, A+ reverts back to Built-in output.

[zackthedog]

15 hours ago, austinpop said:

Does A+ work with LMS/squeezelite, running the UPnP/DLNA media renderer/server plugin?  In other words, a squeezelite player emulating a UPnP player?

 

I tried enabling the UPnP DLNA media renderer plugin in LMS. In the A+ settings, I can see the player ("Zenith SE player"), but when I select it, A+ reverts back to Built-in output.

 

I don't believe so.  It's the mpd/upmpdcli combination that it's designed for.

[Hoshi]

An older issue has cropped up again.  When A+ first give us the ability to play the first unfold of MQA files, I experienced an issue that would crop up every now and then when I would play standard red book followed by an MQA track.  I experience a kind of "white noise" that plays for the first 2 or 3 seconds of the MQA track.  After that 2 to 3 seconds of white noise, track begins to play.  The track starts 2 to 3 seconds into the song.  If I remember correctly, the fix back them was to delay a feature in the playback settings 4 to 7 milliseconds.  This feature is no longer there in the current version which I believe is 3.2.5.  

 

I did not experience this annomially until I configured a MicroRendu 1.4 into my audio network.  I'm also using the direct connection method to integrate the rendering device directly to my server which is a Macmini.  I've got 16MB of RAM so I don't think it's a system resource issue.  Prior to inserting the mRendu, I was using 3.1.7 and had zero issues so I'm not sure if the problem is with the version of A+ or Sonicorbitor/mRendu.

 

Is anyone else experiencing this annomily or can someone suggest a fix?  BTW, things sound so good with this Ethernet front end, I'd never go back to a USB playback option, even with this annoyance.

 

Thanks