The "Official" Aurender Discussion Thread

[Booster MPS]

Or how about a 0TB version with just the SSD for music files on a NAS?

 

 

I think I might jump at the option to roll my own storage also. I think the market seems to be demanding a more integrated solution. Maybe I am shortsighted but I am putting a lot of confidence in the reliability of one box - don't get me wrong it's a great product.

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Question for Aurender owners:  On your initial load of music onto the hard drive, did you batch the files or send them all at one time?  Did you get any copy errors in the process?

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Thanks for the responses on the transfers everybody, much appreciated.  That much closer to making my decision.

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Does the Conductor App have the capability to set "Favorite" albums as a group for content stored locally on the Aurender hard drive?

 

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Shout out and thanks to those posting here for the guidance as you can now count me with the N100H owners.  I appreciate the information and the reviews on this thread.  I have long been over due to retire my 2012 Mac Mini / A+ combo, although Audirvana has really served me well.  I have known for a long time that I needed to move to a purpose built machine with a lower noise floor and no concern for transition between OS versions.  So now we sit in my home office loading files.....

 

@rwwjr44 thanks for the reply.  I take your reply to mean that to create a grouping or mini library of "Favorite" albums, just make each one of those albums its own playlist.  Let me know if I interpreted that correctly.

 

 

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@Quadiffusor HK I think that I would probably agree with you on having the ability to favorite entire albums, but I would speculate that the reason it does not work this way has to deal with the database structure.  I went about setting up a subgroup of favorites as suggested by Ari, and it worked out giving me the sub-group that I desired.  Removing that last "star" if you want to un-rank a song is indeed pretty tricky in the app.

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Within the Aurender App, is there a way to select and remove a single song from the play queue?  Would appreciate guidance on editing the queue if possible.  Thanks!

[Booster MPS]

Having trouble with the Aurender App removing the star rating from a track.  Following the directions here, and having no trouble flipping between any particular star rating, but getting from one star to no stars is.......tricky.  Any suggestions or tips?

 

http://support.aurender.com/remove-star-rating.html

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22 hours ago, Booster MPS said:

Having trouble with the Aurender App removing the star rating from a track.  Following the directions here, and having no trouble flipping between any particular star rating, but getting from one star to no stars is.......tricky.  Any suggestions or tips?

 

http://support.aurender.com/remove-star-rating.html

 

After a lot of tries, I think I found a repeatable tip to help others.  It seems like there is 1/4 of a star barely to the left of the first star.  If you aim for that invisible star instead of pressing directly on the star, you can flip the first star off.

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Implementing software changes to a retail release is no small effort.  It's not to be taken lightly as just making a widget/button show up on your screen.  Programming, testing, verification, acceptance testing all take time.  Short cut that, and you have a LOT of angry users with borked up meta data.  Or worse, definitively promise it, and then find that it can't pass testing for other issues or impacts, then you have over promised.  Better to wait.  Around a month ago Ari acknowledge the request that you and I made, and said he would put it on the requested feature list.

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15 hours ago, Mazza said:

@Booster MPS you raise some valid points. However there must be something else going on in the background because the promised update is taking sooo long to appear. It can’t just be about resources, a major update of a piece of software, especially on a closed system like the Aurender is relatively simple and is capable of being done in a matter of months by a pretty small team. Much of the original software should be able to be reused if written and documented properly. I wonder this is part of the problem or if it is truly about lack of resource and or low priority 

 

Ah I see where you are coming from.  I was more so addressing the mention of adding on the request to rate entire albums rather than individual tracks to the forthcoming release mentioned by the owner above.  Given that the process for the release was said to be forthcoming, tacking on another user ask probably would be unlikely.  Ari mentioned in June that the request was "noted and recorded."  @Mazza I will go back and see when the first mention of the new app hit the press.  Seems like I saw something in Beta teased on Audiostream around .....April maybe?  March?

[Booster MPS]

Looks good to me, I like it.  Any changes under the hood that I should notice other than the visual refresh?  Thanks!

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Conductor app will never be ROON even if they add lyrics.  ROON is a much deeper, immersive experience for the user.  

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A question on back up compatibility.  I am backing up my Aurender via my Macbook Pro using Sync Folders Pro to an external pair of WD Hard Drives.  I have a cloud plan also but will save that for another day.  I first need to reformat the drive that will hold the clone.

 

What is the best format to use for the back up drive?  Should I reformat to Apple File System (APFS) or Mac OS Extended.  I think the right answer is the former.  Just want to make sure that there is no compatibility issue.  Thanks!

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@The Computer Audiophile I would be curious if a parenthesis "(" has a different implementation than a bracket "[" with the metadata.  Aurender seems to use bracket to prioritize music folders on the conductor app when the [folder name] is used.  Wonder if that carries some property down to the file name level.

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Sorry if this question has been addressed but I have not been an owner for all that long.  Is there a software/product path for a web or mobile interface for the Aurender family of units?  Will it always be iOS tablet?  Thanks.