Audirvana

[mikmas]

I bought into Audirvana a few years back and agree that it is indeed a noticeable improvement on iTunes native playback ... which is a bit pants really...

As I understand it, AV over-rides the Mac's inbuilt audio gubbins and uses its own audio codec which accounts for the improvement but to be fair to iTunes it lacks all the additional bells and whistles such as CD ripping, file conversion options and data tagging. Having experienced the total wipeout of some of the other 'free' media utilities that made the MacOS such a really useful platform (such as iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD) I am grateful that iTunes has survived as a relatively useful programme.

What surprise me is that Apple haven't bought AV out yet and incorporated it - they are usually quick off the mark to swallow up anything that swims in their waters ....

[Pepperamip]

Apologies if this basic question but I'm streaming spotify premium through a Chromecast audio into my caiman seg. I would like to try Tidal > Audirvana but only have the Chromecast and a android box. Would I need to introduce a suitable pc/mac for this?

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[struth]

Apologies if this basic question but I'm streaming spotify premium through a Chromecast audio into my caiman seg. I would like to try Tidal > Audirvana but only have the Chromecast and a android box. Would I need to introduce a suitable pc/mac for this?

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yes, you need a computer to run the program

[Pepperamip]

yes, you need a computer to run the program

Thanks. RPI3 on the list too now

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[struth]

audirvana is a mac program but a new version for windows10 is now out too. ive been sending the music from pc to an rpi with great success. the windows program is improving and another update was added recently. its similar to roon i guess, in that it unfolds mqa in tidal and does similar things to roon

[Primare]

I'm using Audirvana+ and MacMini as a transport. I like very much this combination. Listening HiRes files up to DSD128.
But I have some issues. Sometimes Audirvana unite two completely different albums into one if they have the same title. Did somebody have the same problem?

[struth]

Not had that Ivo. had some issues with tags and especially album art but have been sorting them in jriver as they appear. Most are no pic appearing and had to reload and rename folder.jpg, even if its already called that. Mine is the slightly buggy windows version tho.

[Liffy99]

I am using Qobuz as my streaming source into a RPI3/ Allo digione, cotrolled by Squeezepad on my Ipad.
Have been considering Audinirvana but one thing has stopped me trying.
Using a plugin to LMS ( on my Mac) I am able to stream Qobuz through the above setup. However the interface is basic - I can choose next or last track, play and pause etc and search the library and playlists. But, if I hear a track I like in a playlist, I cannot save it or tag it in anywhere. I have to wait until I go to my Mac and use the Qobuz web interface to manage playlists.
AV said the ability to tag or save tracks to playlists via the Ipad would be coming. Has it ?
Anyone know any more ?

[Alp]

Thanks. RPI3 on the list too now

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Although Audirvana is not available on RPI3, my simplistic understanding of it is that it up-samples the music (no doubt using a proprietary algorithm). While my Caiman SEG was away getting an upgrade I played about with SOX up-sampling in Picoreplayer with my old RPI3 and an Audiophonics ES9023 Sabre DAC. Using the "Goldilocks" example from Archimago I certainly got an improvement in the sound from 44.1KHz material up-sampled to 96KHz. I tried it with the SEG when I got it back but the same settings arguably degraded the sound. If you have PCP it might be worth a try to see if it helps with your DAC.

Has any one else tried SOX up-sampling and had good results?

[Sherwood]

AV is not available on the RPi but can be used with an Rpi very well. Just select the Rpi as preferred output device on the AV menu (uses PnP).

I don't think that the SEG can deal with DSD directly (I may be wrong) but my Rpi/Digione certainly can. Tried several upsampling options and settled on DSD128. Sounds fantastic. Very analogue into SEG with new Dorado power module!

Geoff