Audirvana Plus 2.6

[Serpieri]

I was able to resolve the issue by deleting the database and starting over. Of course, that's not ideal if I have to do that every time I add a new album.

 

Well met. Thanks for the update.

 

 

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[Juanjo]

Audirvana 2.6.4 take advantage of a four core mac or is minimal side to side with a dual core computer?

In other words A+ use more than two cores if I play music without process it?

Only play the file as is and the DAC change to the correct sample rate according the track.

 

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[RunHomeSlow]

Audirvana 2.6.4 take advantage of a four core mac or is minimal side to side with a dual core computer?

In other words A+ use more than two cores if I play music without process it?

Only play the file as is and the DAC change to the correct sample rate according the track.

 

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Not english native speaking, but not easy to understand you lol

I don't know about how many cores A+ handle, but if you are not upsampling, meaning just play the files as they are... like 44.1 as 44.1 or 192 as 192, you don't need a super fast MAC or even fast MAC to play with A+... OS 10.9, 2gb or RAM, 4gb preferred, you should not having problems.

[mugsy]

Is it possible to add 'Artist' back to the 'Show View Options' pull-down menu? My collection is all over the place now since this option mysteriously disappeared in 2.6.2 onwards. I do not wish to sort by 'Album Artist'.

[damien78]

Is it possible to add 'Artist' back to the 'Show View Options' pull-down menu? My collection is all over the place now since this option mysteriously disappeared in 2.6.2 onwards. I do not wish to sort by 'Album Artist'.

Artist was present in previous versions only as the album artist information may be missing from files metadata.

Audirvana Plus 2.6 now computes automatically the album artist(s) when the metadata is missing by taking the one from the album tracks if 75%+ of its tracks share the same.

Unless you have only compilation albums, this does the missing metadata filling work for you.

That's why there is no more the track artist sort criteria in albums view.

 

One thing you may want to do is to clear the sort criteria list in View Options, and add the sort criteria again. In some rare cases there can be an issue migrating the artists sort criteria to album artist. And the result is a wrongly sorted view.

[pl_svn]

One thing you may want to do is to clear the sort criteria list in View Options, and add the sort criteria again. In some rare cases there can be an issue migrating the artists sort criteria to album artist. And the result is a wrongly sorted view.

Damien: just tried the above too and... "Bob Dylan" is still sorted, and scattered, among "Various Artists" albums

(and it's not the only Album Artist mis-sorted, as I'm reporting since v2.6.0)

[damien78]

I'll need some more details on this album, or maybe better if you could send me your AudirvanaPlusDatabase.sqlite file by email (or file transfer service).

[pl_svn]

not just one album: all of Bob Dylan (and other artist's) albums are mis-sorted since 2.6

 

I'll upload the sqlite thing on my Dropbox and send you a link by PM

 

thanks

[mugsy]

Artist was present in previous versions only as the album artist information may be missing from files metadata.

Audirvana Plus 2.6 now computes automatically the album artist(s) when the metadata is missing by taking the one from the album tracks if 75%+ of its tracks share the same.

Unless you have only compilation albums, this does the missing metadata filling work for you.

That's why there is no more the track artist sort criteria in albums view.

 

One thing you may want to do is to clear the sort criteria list in View Options, and add the sort criteria again. In some rare cases there can be an issue migrating the artists sort criteria to album artist. And the result is a wrongly sorted view.

 

Thanks for your reply Damien.

 

I tried all the above with no luck. I then tried version 2.5.4 (that had the Artist field) and all was displayed exactly how I wanted it.

 

I then tried 2.6.2 again, clearing all sort fields again. Then I selected Genre as the first. Fine. Album Artist as the second. Fine. Then Year, and that's where things got disorganised. It seems like the Year field is causing the trouble, and perhaps 'jumping the queue' in importance when with the 'old' Audirvana, it displayed with Genre / Artist / Year perfectly, and in that order of sorting.

 

For the time being, I'll stick with version 2.5.4.

 

John

[Nico]

Thanks for your reply Damien.

.....

For the time being, I'll stick with version 2.5.4.

John

 

Same here: Stuck with 2.5.4 because of new Artists management in 2.6. Artist (Interpret) shows up in 2.6 in the column browser but it does not show up in track list view. This is not logic for me.

I wish that A+ just could show up the tags information how it is saved in the tracks tags, nothing more. Otherwise, I guess it will never be compatible with other library systems, no? Am I missing something?

[damien78]

not just one album: all of Bob Dylan (and other artist's) albums are mis-sorted since 2.6

 

I'll upload the sqlite thing on my Dropbox and send you a link by PM

 

thanks

 

Just checked your library. The issue is that the artist "Bob Dylan" has "Various Artists" as Sort Name.

Changed the sort name to "Bob Dylan" (or better "Dylan Bob") and they are displayed at the right place.

Such issue may come from another software that had written wrong sort names tags.

 

The handling of the sort names for the artists, track and album titles is a new feature of the 2.6.

The Artists List (command of the View menu) is there to edit the artists names, and their sort name.

 

BTW, you may want to split the names with multiple artists into several artists, using the artists list feature of the 2.6

[damien78]

I then tried 2.6.2 again, clearing all sort fields again. Then I selected Genre as the first. Fine. Album Artist as the second. Fine. Then Year, and that's where things got disorganised. It seems like the Year field is causing the trouble, and perhaps 'jumping the queue' in importance when with the 'old' Audirvana, it displayed with Genre / Artist / Year perfectly, and in that order of sorting.

 

Can you try with 2.6.4, and elaborate on this issue? Can you send me screenshots by email?

[damien78]

Same here: Stuck with 2.5.4 because of new Artists management in 2.6. Artist (Interpret) shows up in 2.6 in the column browser but it does not show up in track list view. This is not logic for me.

I wish that A+ just could show up the tags information how it is saved in the tracks tags, nothing more. Otherwise, I guess it will never be compatible with other library systems, no? Am I missing something?

 

Secondary click on the tracks list header row, and select Artist. This shows the Artist column.

[pl_svn]

Just checked your library. The issue is that the artist "Bob Dylan" has "Various Artists" as Sort Name.

Changed the sort name to "Bob Dylan" (or better "Dylan Bob") and they are displayed at the right place.

Such issue may come from another software that had written wrong sort names tags.

 

The handling of the sort names for the artists, track and album titles is a new feature of the 2.6.

The Artists List (command of the View menu) is there to edit the artists names, and their sort name.

 

BTW, you may want to split the names with multiple artists into several artists, using the artists list feature of the 2.6

thank you Damien

 

though... no idea how this could happen: I *always*, *maniacally* tag *myself*, *by hand* using Yate all my files and I *never* use/fill the "Sort Artist" tag

 

btw... Neil Young is among "J" artists so... no "Various Artists" mis/auto-tagging

 

oh, and, btw 2... all is fine on my iPad

 

 

thinking about this all... *please* add a tab in "Preferences" with a list of tags Audirvana should use/ignore depending on user preference

[damien78]

thank you Damien

 

though... no idea how this could happen: I *always*, *maniacally* tag *myself*, *by hand* using Yate all my files and I *never* use the "Sort Artist" tag

 

btw... Neil Young is among "J" artists so... no "Various Artists" mis/auto-tagging

 

oh, and, btw 2... all is fine on my iPad

thinking about this all... *please* add a tab in "Preferences" with a list of tags Audirvana should use/ignore depending on user preference

Same story for Neil Young:

 

As you use Yate, you can make a batch processing with it to remove all sort names for artists. That may be faster.

[Nico]

Secondary click on the tracks list header row, and select Artist. This shows the Artist column.

I am sorry to say: No, this shows a grouping of my tags SOLOIST and ARTIST, not the tag ARTIST alone. Am I realy missing something? My tracks are very well tagged with Tagger App YATE.

[pl_svn]

As you use Yate, you can make a batch processing with it to remove all sort names for artists. That may be faster.

was editing my post while you wrote the above so... let me repost my edit: *please*, Damien, add a tab in "Preferences" with a list of tags, each one with a checkbox beside, for Audirvana to use/ignore according to user preference

 

I'm sure this will save a lot of hassle also to yourself too

[pl_svn]

Just checked your library. The issue is that the artist "Bob Dylan" has "Various Artists" as Sort Name.

I'm checking, using Yate, all my albums and finding that... *all* of them now have the "Sort Artist" tag populated

(thankfully, for all those I checked so far, "Sort Artist" and "Album Artist" have the same value)

 

though... I *never*, *ever* filled that tag! *NEVER*!

and the only two apps that have "touched" my music files are Roon (which doesn't write anything if not just in its own database) and... Audirvana!

[fourstrings1891]

*hint hint*

 

https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-updates-ios-app-design-resources/

[Gonzbull]

+1

[pl_svn]

As you use Yate, you can make a batch processing with it to remove all sort names for artists. That may be faster.

done!

- run a Yate batch action on *all* my music collection set to "Clear *all* "Sort" tags"

- let A+ rescan all synched folders

- cleared then re-added View's sort criteria and...

 

 

 

whilst among "Various Artists"...

 

 

(the above is just a small part of what is in-between Various Artists!)

 

[damien78]

done!

- run a Yate batch action on *all* my music collection set to "Clear *all* "Sort" tags"

- let A+ rescan all synched folders

- cleared then re-added View's sort criteria and...

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]32620[/ATTACH]

 

 

whilst among "Various Artists"...

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]32621[/ATTACH]

 

(the above is just a small part of what is in-between Various Artists!)

Forgot to tell you the sort name is not reloaded if the artist is already in the database. So either you make a whole new sync, or you change the artists sort name in Audirvana Plus.

The wrong "Various artists" sort name must have come from somewhere, and Audirvana Plus doesn't write anything to the files metadata unless there is an explicit action from the user (in the tracks/albums metadata, or in the artists list). So it must come from the other software that must then write to the files in addition to its database...

[damien78]

I am sorry to say: No, this shows a grouping of my tags SOLOIST and ARTIST, not the tag ARTIST alone. Am I realy missing something? My tracks are very well tagged with Tagger App YATE.

 

The soloist is an artist. That's why it appears in the artists list.

[wappinghigh]

D. > Spotify And Spotify Connect. KBOOM. Integrate that! Thanks W

[Horevey]

a basic super-newbie question - i'm registered to Tidal, but I can't access Tidal music from Audirvana. I have an empty screen -

i've read the manuals and searched everywhere but can't find the "Sources" pane.

Thanks for your help, and sorry if it was asked before.