Amarra 4.1 & High Sierra

[hiind]

Did a fresh install of 4.1 and now am unable to import my library! The import starts and after about 1% the program promptly crashes thus rendering the software essentially unusable.I am importing from an external HDD which has been formatted to AFS. It is a fairly large library ( over 3 TB) but it was working well previously.I have tried both methods of import (from iTunes and directly) and neither works, Importing files individually works but that is not acceptable to me.Have now reverted back to Audirvana which works flawlessly.

[hiind]

7 hours ago, foodfiend said:

Welcome to the club! I have always suffered problems with importing my entire music library (>100k songs) at one go, ever since I moved to Amarra 4 and the Luxe version. My music library also sits on an external HDD (via Thunderbolt 2) and is in AIFF format. I have resorted to building the library by importing music a few artistes at a time. Not really sure what causes Amarra to crash when importing music, but it seems to be linked to the number of songs it imports at once (but not exactly, since sometimes I have trouble importing just a single album). Would really like to understand what to avoid.

Thanks for the warm welcome!

 

4 hours ago, cosmuk said:

Sounds like you may have some prefs left over from a previous install.

I'd run the scripts to clear the previous library & uninstall A4 to insure a clean install first.

 I have a large library too, so I had to make sure nothing went into sleep mode. 

This could be your OS, server, external disks or hard disks.

If you think, you may have a corrupted file, you can look at your AmarraScanFiles.txt and see the very last entry A4 was able to import, before it stopped. Then move that file to a temp location outside of the library.

 

Have done all of the above to no avail.I will try to move the last entry on my AmarraScanFiles.txt and hope (fingers crossed!) that solves the problem.Many thanks for your inputs.

[hiind]

15 hours ago, cosmuk said:

Sounds like you may have some prefs left over from a previous install.

I'd run the scripts to clear the previous library & uninstall A4 to insure a clean install first.

 I have a large library too, so I had to make sure nothing went into sleep mode. 

This could be your OS, server, external disks or hard disks.

If you think, you may have a corrupted file, you can look at your AmarraScanFiles.txt and see the very last entry A4 was able to import, before it stopped. Then move that file to a temp location outside of the library.

 

You were spot on! Deleted a half dozen Pure Music bookmarks and then proceeded to import my entire library seamlessly. Many thanks for your advice,truly appreciate it!

[hiind]

I’m having problems with track listing on importing albums.On classical files (where it is more significant) Amarra lists the tracks using it’s own strange methodology! I thus get tracks where movements are imported willy-nilly! Obviously,classical music cannot be played in this fashion.Any solution to this problem?