Audiolibre Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 I've recently installed the trial version of Audirvana on my MacBook Pro but I'm having issues with the library. I've been growing my music library for over 10 years and started w/iTunes, then moved onto FLAC files and finally HD including a few DSD so far. Here's my dilemma: I sometime have the same copy of a given album but under m4a and flac and sometime I have two flac files of a given album but of different resolution, e.g. 44.1/16 & 96/24. When I search in the library under a given artist, Audirvana seems to merge together all of the version I have of the same album? I've used Decibel for over 10 years and although the interface is basic, the good old folder format works great. Thoughts/suggestions that wouldn't require rebuilding the whole file structure on my computer? Link to comment
miguelito Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 I have the same issue. I have a bunch of albums in different resolutions, formats, etc. A+ merges them. And when I look at the album, since the track numbers are properly set in the metadata, I get something like: <track 1> <16/44> <track 1> <DSD> <track 2> <16/44> <track 2> <DSD> ... which is really terrible. One way I have coped with this is renaming the albums with like [DSD] or similar, but this is a really sucky solution. I would like A+ to have an option to split albums by format, or something similar. I am open to suggestions obviously. NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Title each version with the resolution, that's what I do. Musicophile 1 No electron left behind. Link to comment
Audiolibre Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 I thought you would say that but was hoping not 🙂 As I'm just trying A+ for now, aside from that, are you guys satisfy with it? Link to comment
Jud Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Audiolibre said: I've recently installed the trial version of Audirvana on my MacBook Pro but I'm having issues with the library. I've been growing my music library for over 10 years and started w/iTunes, then moved onto FLAC files and finally HD including a few DSD so far. Here's my dilemma: I sometime have the same copy of a given album but under m4a and flac and sometime I have two flac files of a given album but of different resolution, e.g. 44.1/16 & 96/24. When I search in the library under a given artist, Audirvana seems to merge together all of the version I have of the same album? I've used Decibel for over 10 years and although the interface is basic, the good old folder format works great. Thoughts/suggestions that wouldn't require rebuilding the whole file structure on my computer? What I do is use the track view and have sample rate after artist and album in my list of indexing criteria. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Audiolibre Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 Plan B I guess, thanks Link to comment
miguelito Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 1 hour ago, AudioDoctor said: Title each version with the resolution, that's what I do. I would like to be able to tell A+ to separate the albums... NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
miguelito Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 49 minutes ago, Jud said: What I do is use the track view and have sample rate after artist and album in my list of indexing criteria. Ok, that's not terrible... NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
Audiolibre Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 Although much more expensive, does ROON has the same issue? Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 you tell me... 😉 No electron left behind. Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 1 hour ago, miguelito said: I would like to be able to tell A+ to separate the albums... It will if you literally title the album "Cosmic Thing 24/192" or whatever, you can have another one titled "Cosmic Thing DSD" and they will separate if you have the correct songs in the right folder. If you title different albums identically, you are going to get multiple copies of things jumbled into one album, that's how tags work. Change something on one of them, something that can be identified easily by you and the software. All you have to do is add the resolution to the title and it will do it. Below is an example of the appropriate folder structure, and the tags would need to match. No electron left behind. Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Here is a real life example. I don't own The Hot Sardines in DSD. IN Fact, I don't think the album is even available in DSD. However, because of a little tag editing, Audirvana thinks I do... No electron left behind. Link to comment
Audiolibre Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Hi AudioDoctor, I've tried your suggestion. In order to do so I've created a small test folder w/renamed album as explained above. Pretty straightforward, done so using Finder. Then, just to make sure, I've deleted my whole library on A+ and recreated one just with the test folder I've created. However, files are still coming under the original name they were created in on laptop in A+! What am I doing wrong here? Is there a different apps than Finder I supposed to use to rename files? Link to comment
RunHomeSlow Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 It is now to change the album name of those files in A+ edit panel... album title: scratch my back (16-44) If You Got Ears, You Gotta Listen – Captain Beefheart MacMini 2018, 4xi3 3.6GHz, SSD, 20Gb, macOS Sonoma > Audirvana Origin > Wyred DAC2 DSD Special Edition > Proceed AMP2 > Focal Cobalt 826 Signature Series > Audirvana Remote > iPhone 13 Link to comment
Audiolibre Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Incapable to modify the file names in A+ w/edit panel. I’m a rather tenacious person but I’m now fighting the tool instead of listening to music... Link to comment
RunHomeSlow Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 2 minutes ago, Audiolibre said: Incapable to modify the file names in A+ w/edit panel. I’m a rather tenacious person but I’m now fighting the tool instead of listening to music... cmd i: now you see edit panel click one time on So album cover. Now you have all the songs in the albums under... click with 'cmd' to select the ones you want for the 16-44 album then go to tittle in edit panel and change it to So (16-44) or whatever, then save. redo with 'cmd' click the other that they are in same folder that you want for S0 (24-96) then go to title in edit panel and rename those So (24-96). Now they are split. like my library, you can see the bit depth, the sample rate, the file type and even the location to get it easier to see witch ones you need to select. If You Got Ears, You Gotta Listen – Captain Beefheart MacMini 2018, 4xi3 3.6GHz, SSD, 20Gb, macOS Sonoma > Audirvana Origin > Wyred DAC2 DSD Special Edition > Proceed AMP2 > Focal Cobalt 826 Signature Series > Audirvana Remote > iPhone 13 Link to comment
RunHomeSlow Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 The tagging is not important in the Finder (but easier to find, yes)... it as to be done in A+... you can put all your discography in Peter Gabriel So folder if you want... if you tag them well in A+, they all be split to genesis, pink floyd, whatever even if they reside in So Folder If You Got Ears, You Gotta Listen – Captain Beefheart MacMini 2018, 4xi3 3.6GHz, SSD, 20Gb, macOS Sonoma > Audirvana Origin > Wyred DAC2 DSD Special Edition > Proceed AMP2 > Focal Cobalt 826 Signature Series > Audirvana Remote > iPhone 13 Link to comment
RunHomeSlow Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Another trick for me is to create a smart playlist on the left called 'Ajout Récents' for me or 'Just Added' and give the settings of that playlist: All - Date Added - is in the last - month (for me) could be two weeks or whatever. As you could see in first pict, i added a Japan 1987 edition of Pink Floyd First... it is called the same name as the other one i already have in my library in there, but different name in my hard disc folders one 1987 japan and one 2017 japan reissue, but in the playlist is it just the one in this month that appear... but if i go to my library as in second pict, you can see that the 2 albums are mixed up there because they have the same album name... for me i keep just one album in If You Got Ears, You Gotta Listen – Captain Beefheart MacMini 2018, 4xi3 3.6GHz, SSD, 20Gb, macOS Sonoma > Audirvana Origin > Wyred DAC2 DSD Special Edition > Proceed AMP2 > Focal Cobalt 826 Signature Series > Audirvana Remote > iPhone 13 Link to comment
miguelito Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 On 2/12/2019 at 2:18 PM, AudioDoctor said: It will if you literally title the album "Cosmic Thing 24/192" or whatever, you can have another one titled "Cosmic Thing DSD" and they will separate if you have the correct songs in the right folder. My directory structure starts with the source of the file - CD, HDTracks, SACD, etc - so I generally don't have a physical location overlap. What I do is actually tag the album's metadata with a variant like "Cosmic Thing [24/192]", "Cosmic Thing [DSD64]", etc. I do this because I use the same library for Audirvana (where I need this tagging) and Roon (where I don't). Roon recognizes the stuff in [] as an album variant and shows them accordingly. However, I will point out that Roon does not need this variant - it will recognize the same album in a different resolution is another version of the album, and will group then together. It will choose the highest resolution album as the primary, but you can change which one is the primary if you wish. I much rather have an option in Audirvana to separate tracks of different format as different albums. NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
Audiolibre Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 RunHomeSlow, Working now! Does the average ‘Jim Bob’ knows that you need to do cmd i to get to the edit panel? One benefit I see now is I can re-use that art cover picture/jpg file so I don’t end up with the CD icon in some cases. Thanks for your help! Link to comment
RunHomeSlow Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 17 minutes ago, Audiolibre said: Does the average ‘Jim Bob’ knows that you need to do cmd i to get to the edit panel? Check to View menu in A+ bar the first three menu there are useful... you have the shortcut on the right The File menu also... Library... 2 useful menus there too for the library The 'cmd j' offers options in the Album view mode and also in Tracks view mode. Have fun If You Got Ears, You Gotta Listen – Captain Beefheart MacMini 2018, 4xi3 3.6GHz, SSD, 20Gb, macOS Sonoma > Audirvana Origin > Wyred DAC2 DSD Special Edition > Proceed AMP2 > Focal Cobalt 826 Signature Series > Audirvana Remote > iPhone 13 Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 10 hours ago, RunHomeSlow said: It is now to change the album name of those files in A+ edit panel... album title: scratch my back (16-44) 9 hours ago, RunHomeSlow said: The tagging is not important in the Finder (but easier to find, yes)... it as to be done in A+... you can put all your discography in Peter Gabriel So folder if you want... if you tag them well in A+, they all be split to genesis, pink floyd, whatever even if they reside in So Folder yes I should have made it more clear that the tag editing was the most important part, no matter where you put the files in the finder. I wanted to show that I was using the same files but that A+ thought they were something else, through the use of tags. Any tag editing software will work. I use Meta: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/ No electron left behind. Link to comment
jrflanne Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 On 2/12/2019 at 10:31 AM, AudioDoctor said: Title each version with the resolution, that's what I do. I do the same thing. Have a spreadsheet-like metadata editor, copy the album title column, paste in excel and append a "- CD" (or whatever) in a new column and paste back into the editor. I have ripped cd's in one folder, albums purchased from had tracks in another, and so on. Works fine. Link to comment
Jud Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 15 hours ago, AudioDoctor said: Any tag editing software will work. I use Meta: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/ Anyone used both this and Yate and have impressions to share? https://2manyrobots.com/yate/ One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
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