The "Official" Aurender Discussion Thread

[Craig1512]

I’ve just stared using Spotify as my music steaming service and select Spotify in the Aurender app which opens the Spotify app. I’m wondering why Spotify isn’t integrated into the Aurender App same as tidal & Qobuz. Also my N100 doesn’t go into standby mode when i stop play and listening to Spotify even if I close the app on my iPad Pro. The Aurender just stays on with the last song on the screen and I have to open the Aurender app, start to play a song, stop play and close the app. Is there a setting I need to make to fix this or is it a bug I should report to Aurender. Any one else experiencing this?

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 hours ago, Craig1512 said:

I’ve just stared using Spotify as my music steaming service and select Spotify in the Aurender app which opens the Spotify app. I’m wondering why Spotify isn’t integrated into the Aurender App same as tidal & Qobuz. Also my N100 doesn’t go into standby mode when i stop play and listening to Spotify even if I close the app on my iPad Pro. The Aurender just stays on with the last song on the screen and I have to open the Aurender app, start to play a song, stop play and close the app. Is there a setting I need to make to fix this or is it a bug I should report to Aurender. Any one else experiencing this?

Spotify won’t allow such integration anymore. 

[ken6217]

Just purchased an N20. I had an S10 many years ago, and then an N10. I've been "Aurenderless" for the last 3 years. I'm looking forward hearing the N20.

[The Computer Audiophile]

3 minutes ago, ken6217 said:

Just purchased an N20. I had an S10 many years ago, and then an N10. I've been "Aurenderless" for the last 3 years. I'm looking forward hearing the N20.

It’s a great component. Very happy I have one here for review. I put an SSD in it on day one. 

[ken6217]

I just ordered Samsung 870 QVO SSD as well.

[Ponzi]

I want to say something about this hobby of ours.

 

Last night, around 8:30 or so, I went downstairs to listen to music.  It was bitter cold outside, dark as coal, and dead still.  I had switched everything on two hours earlier.  I carried with me a small glass with a splash of Oban in it, neat.

 

As is my habit lately, I turned to the Paul Galbraith recording of Bach’s lute suites and pressed “play.” I hardly know what say.  The sound was so grippingly beautiful, I held my face in my hands.  Why is it the some nights are this way.  Was the grid especially clean?  I have no idea, but I do know what heard, and it makes everything we go through worth, and easily so.  

 

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

4 minutes ago, Ponzi said:

I want to say something about this hobby of ours.

 

Last night, around 8:30 or so, I went downstairs to listen to music.  It was bitter cold outside, dark as coal, and dead still.  I had switched everything on two hours earlier.  I carried with me a small glass with a splash of Oban in it, neat.

 

As is my habit lately, I turned to the Paul Galbraith recording of Bach’s lute suites and pressed “play.” I hardly know what say.  The sound was so grippingly beautiful, I held my face in my hands.  Why is it the some nights are this way.  Was the grid especially clean?  I have no idea, but I do know what heard, and it makes everything we go through worth, and easily so.  

 

 

 

I've had this happen to me as well. It's stunning when it happens and creates memories we never forget. These days/evenings make our investments all worth it. 

[BrianLS]

Thank you, Ponzi!  This happens to me from time to time as well.  On some evenings, I just can't believe how beautiful the music is that proceeds from my system, track after track, hour after hour.  It's nearly enough to make me swoon at times.  What a wonderful way to end a day that I'd sometimes like to forget.  Honestly, I can't even talk about it to most people - I just get odd looks (lol).  That's ok.  It's just for me.

 

[MarkusBarkus]

...yeah, there's stuff I can only listen to alone. It makes me misty and I'm afraid my wife will get me committed to the local asylum. Everyone should be so lucky to hit upon a system that's really cooking...whatever that means to each listener. 

[ken6217]

Well I cant talk about my N20, since I won't have it until Friday. However I just started drinking scotch about 6 months ago, and decided to take a flyer and bought a bottle of Oban 14. It is now my favorite scotch.

[agladstone]

It’s those moments that occur here and there that keeps us chasing either an opportunity to repeat the experience or what’s in all of our audiophile upgraditis nature... to beat it! 

[agladstone]

1 minute ago, ken6217 said:

Well I cant talk about my N20, since I won't have it until Friday. However I just started drinking scotch about 6 months ago, and decided to take a flyer and bought a bottle of Oban 14. It is now my favorite scotch.

I suppose I was lucky that Oban 14 was the first single malt Scotch I had, and that’s been my “go to” ever since! 

[MarkusBarkus]

Oban is an excellent pour. And Scotch and music such an excellent combination. My network closet doubles as a whiskey locker. Keeps the network smooth. 

[ken6217]

Nice selection. I see you have Belvanie. Belvanie 12 Doublewood was the first scotch I tried. I like that as well.

[AurenderAmerica]

3 hours ago, Ponzi said:

I have no idea, but I do know what heard, and it makes everything we go through worth, and easily so.  

@PonziI love it when your mood and the music just click and you have one of those unforgettable listening sessions! Good booze definitely helps but for me I find it just comes down to my state of mind and my ability to shut out whatever else is occupying my thoughts at the moment and just focus on the music. It's so great when that happens!

[Ponzi]

Let me apologize for the typos in the email that got this started.  

 

What is it that so charms us, about music well played and reproduced?  There is something about it we can’t get enough of.  And yet over indulging in it does us no harm.  It is in that way akin to contemplation.  It is, I would say, the “experience of human greatness.” One cannot witness that too many times.  

 

Don’t you see that in the faces of family and friends who hear your system for the first time? They can’t wait to be invited over for dinner again.  It is all so very good.

[Ponzi]

I have a question.

 

Two albums I ripped with my ASC10, and that are on that units hard drive, now show up on my W20SE as merged together.  They are both Bach  albums.  How do I get them separated again? They show as separated on the ASC10 but still the W20 is putting them together.  ???.  

[ken6217]

Try deleting them from the W20 and copying again individually and see if that works. 

[Mazza]

4 hours ago, ken6217 said:

Try deleting them from the W20 and copying again individually and see if that works. 

it’s worth checking the meta data for the two album’s names aren’t the same ... occasionally I get the opposite effect, one album spilt in two because of some glitch in meta data when ripping

[agladstone]

Change the album title of one of them

within the meta data using a meta data editor (you could add the label or the format or release date, etc and you could use (xx) or [xx] for the descriptor of that specific album or version) - I do this often because I have many albums where I’ll have 10+ different versions (original vinyl ripped, 4 diff CD ripped releases, a DSD 64, DSD128, a reel to reel rip, etc ) 

[Ponzi]

Thanks everyone.  Changing the metadata worked, but I had to force the issue. Putting the numbers 1, 2 and 3 by the artist’s for each CD.  

[Mazza]

8 minutes ago, Ponzi said:

Thanks everyone.  Changing the metadata worked, but I had to force the issue. Putting the numbers 1, 2 and 3 by the artist’s for each CD.  

 

Yes, we sometimes forget that various ripping programmes use online database's for metadata and so there are sometimes oddities that crop up; I have had some albums where the tracks had no resemblance whatsoever to what they should have been!

 

FYI, I find that SongKong is an excellent utility for comparing databases and reconciling such things; all round it's a very useful tool

 

[ken6217]

Just received my N20 and ACS100. I'll hook it up tomorrow. For ripping CD's is there any benefit or negative of WAV versus FLAC in terms of audio quality or album art? I do know that WAV files do take up more space.

[Anonamemouse]

5 hours ago, ken6217 said:

Just received my N20 and ACS100. I'll hook it up tomorrow. For ripping CD's is there any benefit or negative of WAV versus FLAC in terms of audio quality or album art? I do know that WAV files do take up more space.

Congrats on the new toys!

 

I personally have never heard any difference between WAV and FLAC (if ripped properly), I have compared both on a system so frighteningly revealing that you could hear what brand of jeans the drummer was wearing. There are people that will swear X is humongously better than Y, but those people also always knew what they were listening to, or they were comparing different masterings of the same album.

 

FLAC has the great benefit of metadata tagging, something WAV somewhat allows, but it is not in the official specifications for the format. If you are worried about the compression FLAC applies, you can rip to FLAC without compression (set compression to zero). That way you get uncompressed WAV with a FLAC shell.

 

In the end you are the one listening to your music, let your own ears decide what you think is best.

 

[rwwjr44]

Now a days there is no practical aural difference between WAV and FLAC music files. I usually set FLAC compression to zero but that is a personal quibble.