The "Official" Aurender Discussion Thread

[AurenderAmerica]

6 hours ago, rwwjr44 said:

I just noticed that the Conductor screen doesn’t completely fill my iPad 11 inch Pro. Is this normal?

@rwwjr44 yes. Full screen support for iPad Pro 11” will be added in Conductor 3.0 (coming soon) along with the new skins and lots of other improvements.

[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

[Booster MPS]

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.

[Quadiffusor HK]

On ‎6‎/‎11‎/‎2019 at 6:34 AM, AriMargolis said:

@Quadiffusor HK I personally agree with you there as well. Adding it to our feature request list now.

Hi @AriMargolis - will the new Conductor 3.0 be able to "Star Rate" albums?  Even a binary yes/no star system would be totally adequate; as we discussed, users really need a method to distinguish their favorite albums (a discrete collection of songs in a single vehicle) to separate them from the tens of hundreds of thousands of individual songs, typical of an average Aurender owner's collection.

[AurenderAmerica]

On 7/3/2019 at 9:24 PM, Quadiffusor HK said:

Hi @AriMargolis - will the new Conductor 3.0 be able to "Star Rate" albums?  Even a binary yes/no star system would be totally adequate; as we discussed, users really need a method to distinguish their favorite albums (a discrete collection of songs in a single vehicle) to separate them from the tens of hundreds of thousands of individual songs, typical of an average Aurender owner's collection.

@Quadiffusor HK this is a feature that we can probably add soon after releasing Conductor 3.0, however it has not been prepared for the initial release. Adding any additional features now would only slow the process down as additional QA and beta testing is required. It sounds like a simple feature (and, it is), but any time we do anything that involves editing the library database, there can be unforeseen difficulties. 

[Mazza]

24 minutes ago, AriMargolis said:

@Quadiffusor HK this is a feature that we can probably add soon after releasing Conductor 3.0, 

 

Hah! The elusive ver 3.0 release! "All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for." Woodrow T. Wilson

[jfddoc]

 A W20SE?  How is it different from the W20? 

[AurenderAmerica]

4 minutes ago, jfddoc said:

 A W20SE?  How is it different from the W20? 

@jfddoc you'll just have to come to the show and find out! Just kidding. More info will be released soon, but in the mean time here are some key differences:

-Uses SSD's instead of spinning drives

-Larger SSD cache (1TB)

-Linear power supply replaces switch-mode PSU

-2X Isolated LAN port

-Upgraded OCXO clock

-Support for higher rate DSD

[Metnoc]

11 minutes ago, AriMargolis said:

@jfddoc you'll just have to come to the show and find out! Just kidding. More info will be released soon, but in the mean time here are some key differences:

-Uses SSD's instead of spinning drives

-Larger SSD cache (1TB)

-Linear power supply replaces switch-mode PSU

-2X Isolated LAN port

-Upgraded OCXO clock

-Support for higher rate DSD

I'm considering replacing my "spaghetti-chain" of boxes (server, endpoints, external psus) with a all-in-one streaming solution, with server, harddrive and preferably rj45 i2s, usb and spdif outputs. The issue is that I probably have to pay more than I'm willing to considerably better my sms200ultra/uptone 1.2 endpoint especially with the new firmware.
Is there an updated version of N100C in the works? Or a new better model?

Thanks,

[AurenderAmerica]

3 minutes ago, Metnoc said:

Is there an updated version of N100C in the works? Or a new better model?

@Metnoc no direct replacement to N100C is planned at this time. N100H/C are likely to remain in the product line up as they are for the foreseeable future. 

[rwwjr44]

2 hours ago, AriMargolis said:

@jfddoc you'll just have to come to the show and find out! Just kidding. More info will be released soon, but in the mean time here are some key differences:

-Uses SSD's instead of spinning drives

-Larger SSD cache (1TB)

-Linear power supply replaces switch-mode PSU

-2X Isolated LAN port

-Upgraded OCXO clock

-Support for higher rate DSD

Will it still have batteries?

[Quadiffusor HK]

14 hours ago, AriMargolis said:

@Quadiffusor HK this is a feature that we can probably add soon after releasing Conductor 3.0, however it has not been prepared for the initial release. Adding any additional features now would only slow the process down as additional QA and beta testing is required. It sounds like a simple feature (and, it is), but any time we do anything that involves editing the library database, there can be unforeseen difficulties. 

“Additional features”?

Being able to “star” an album should hardly be considered rocket science - besides, it’s a feature that has been requested since a couple of years ago already!

 

”Can probably add”?

What does this mean, exactly?

Will the database architecture for Conductor 3.0  be able to support this very basic feature?  Why all the obfuscation?  I’m more confused than ever.

[Booster MPS]

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.

[Mazza]

@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 

[rwwjr44]

6 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 

 

Trust me. Nothing is ever simple about updates especially major updates. Depending upon Conductor's architecture, code and/or other variables a major rewrite may have been necessary. I am also anxious to get a new Conductor but not at the expense of buggy code. The present Conductor is very solid and works well so I am willing to wait for a robust product.

[Booster MPS]

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?

[Noushy]

They have made a lot of progress with the new app.  It offers several new skins and new display formats.  It takes time to develop and make a stable release.  People need to understand this unless they want broken software and problems.  Personally I have used several different music servers and Aurender is clearly the best.  The app is a huge part of why that works.

 

Noushy

[Vincent1234]

12 hours ago, Noushy said:

They have made a lot of progress with the new app.  It offers several new skins and new display formats.  It takes time to develop and make a stable release.  People need to understand this unless they want broken software and problems.  Personally I have used several different music servers and Aurender is clearly the best.  The app is a huge part of why that works.

 

Noushy

Relax guys, all will end well. Beta software is being tested already.

[Mazza]

14 minutes ago, Vincent1234 said:

Relax guys, all will end well. Beta software is being tested already.

 

"All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for." Woodrow T. Wilson

[AurenderAmerica]

On 7/8/2019 at 7:24 PM, rwwjr44 said:

Will it still have batteries?

@rwwjr44, yes absolutely. 

[AurenderAmerica]

@Quadiffusor HK you'll be pleased to know (as am I) that we are prioritizing a feature where one can assign a star rating to all tracks on the album with one command. You can then go back and adjust the number of stars for each individual track if you want. 

 

So, it is still track-by-track based ratings, but you don't have to assign them one-by-one. This will be easier than creating a new database field for album-associated ratings. 

 

Please don't ask "when"...if I had an answer to that question I would share it!  

[Jeff_N]

When?

 

 

Sorry 😉

[Noushy]

Beta is already in testing so it probably wont be long.

[JS21]

2 hours ago, Noushy said:

Beta is already in testing so it probably wont be long.

 

[Weerstandje]

On 7/9/2019 at 12:28 AM, AriMargolis said:

@jfddoc you'll just have to come to the show and find out! Just kidding. More info will be released soon, but in the mean time here are some key differences:

-Uses SSD's instead of spinning drives

-Larger SSD cache (1TB)

-Linear power supply replaces switch-mode PSU

-2X Isolated LAN port

-Upgraded OCXO clock

-Support for higher rate DSD

Nice specs  

Does it have 2 wordclock inputs so it can sync to a dCS vivaldi clock or does it still need a dongle for switching between 44.1 and 48 kHz?