Audirvana Plus 3.5

[damien78]

Here it is !!

The public beta is now available!

To get it, first activate your Audirvana Plus 3 license key for the 3.5 by going to this page

It will then give you the installation instructions, and the link to download the beta.

 

And enjoy!

 

Damien

[damien78]

3 minutes ago, copy_of_a said:

great - looks good at first glance! looking forward to testing it!

 

First question: will iZotope SRC be back?

 

The old iZotope (no update since 2011) algorithm has been deprecated in favour of SoX that gives better sonic results, especially a larger bandwidth.
To ease the transition for current users, I'll add again choice for iZotope in an upcoming beta, but this will be available only for users upgrading from a previously purchased Audirvana Plus version.
If you find SoX to be a bit too bright, you can tune it by first setting its phase setting around 65, and you can also look at decreasing the filter slope by reducing the "bandwidth" (it is exactly the bandwidth at 0dB).

[damien78]

Just now, AudioDoctor said:

Giving it a go now, has Direct Mode disappeared?

Not at all, but you need to have the right kernel extension from El Capitan

[damien78]

7 hours ago, Joebah said:

I may use A+ different than most folks.

 

Up until this beta, I would just find the file folder of flacs that I wanted to play and just drag the folder from my external hard drive to the A+ icon in the dock - the flacs in the folder would load automatically and start to play. Simple. (I don't maintain a library on A+ and just drag the folders (or individual flac files) as I need them.)

 

Opening the play queue (button bottom right of the window), and then drop files/folders directly onto its list works. 
Good point about dropping onto the app icon on the dock. I've added it again, and you will get it with beta 17 that is released later today.

[damien78]

5 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

I would still like to be able to sort Qobuz albums alphabetically...

 

Where?

In Qobuz curated lists, they are delivered directly by Qobuz in their own curated order.

To sort your own playlists, go to the settings page, "sort criteria" section, and enable the "sort my streaming playlists" option

For your favorite albums in qobuz, unfortunately qobuz servers do not offer to retrieve the favorite albums sorted (unlike TIDAL). I'll look for doing it manually in the application in an upcoming release.

[damien78]

1 minute ago, gLer said:

That’s great work Damien! I use AV+ the same way. Any estimate as to final release timeline? And A+ Remote? I’m waiting patiently to upgrade

Final release should arrive shortly,  and A+ Remote V2 development is ongoing (along with the Android remote)

[damien78]

1 minute ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

In my Favorites. It must be possible, ROON has all of them ordered properly.

As I said, as qobuz servers are missing this feature, it must be done "manually" by the client application.

BTW, what do you think of having all your favorites, whatever the source (local, streaming) in the same view?

[damien78]

Just now, AudioDoctor said:

 

I think it is great, it makes browsing much easier, as well as keeping track of which albums I own and which are streaming so I don't end up buying an album, again.

 

This will then come for 3.5, or shortly after in a 3.5.x

[damien78]

6 minutes ago, stewartg said:

Will 3.5 have the same izotope AND sox filters as 3?

I hope so.

Thanks S

 

The old iZotope (no update since 2011) algorithm has been deprecated in favour of SoX that gives better sonic results, especially a larger bandwidth.
To ease the transition for current users, I'll add again choice for iZotope in an upcoming beta, but this will be available only for users upgrading from a previously purchased Audirvana Plus version.
If you find SoX to be a bit too bright, you can tune it by first setting its phase setting around 65, and you can also look at decreasing the filter slope by reducing the "bandwidth" (it is exactly the bandwidth at 0dB).

[damien78]

2 hours ago, harry.bennett.3994 said:

Is remote app not working as yet?

 

Current A+ Remote is working with the 3.5 beta.

Do you have any issue?

 

55 minutes ago, jorgitok said:

Would the new version identify the Tidal "Masters" in the My Music List?

 

[damien78]

2 hours ago, stefano_mbp said:

@damien78 Great work! First impressions are:

- wonderful UI, now very close to Remote app

- too early for a solid sound impression, but there is more “air” ... great!

 

something to be addressed

 

- using filters on the right sometimes A+ crash ... it happens randomly 

- smart playlists are now missing the option to group some criteria, previously available with Alt key

- it seems that the search results are limited to tracks, albums, artists, composers ... no more all fields as before (“ensemble” for example)

 

and last but not least ... why not add the year tag in the filters?

 

 

 

Thanks, and it is not just an impression

 

Filters: can you send me by PM the crash report? And if possible the steps to reproduce it?

Group in smart playlists: can you elaborate?

Search results: ensemble results are in the artists category, as before. What's new is when browsing the artists in your library, you can filter to view only the album artists, performers, ensembles, composers

 

Good point for Year.

It is now a criteria for filters. You'll get it with beta 17 released later today

[damien78]

1 hour ago, jhwalker said:

Damien - 

 

Enjoying the latest release of 3.5, but I have an ongoing problem with one of my "watched folders".

 

Setup is four watched folders (one for DSD, one for multichannel, one for MQA, and one for "everything else").  The three smaller folders hold about ~300 albums / 4,000 tracks, collectively, and Audirvana is able to scan and load all three of them within about a minute after startup, but the larger folder (6,500+ albums and 110,000+ tracks) starts to scan and almost immediately "completes" without loading ANY albums.

 

All four of the folders are shared from my Mac Mini (i.e., in the same location on the network from Audirvana), and both iTunes and Roon read and load the large directly just fine, so I'm suspecting it may be a size (i.e., number of subdirectories, number of tracks) issue with Audirvana.

 

Any add'l information I can provide to troubleshoot?

 

Can you run the database integrity check (command in the maintenance section of the settings page)?

Size is not an issue, having customers very happy with 350,000+ tracks

[damien78]

6 minutes ago, jos said:

Thanks Damien,

 

Looks great and works flawless, Damien.

One question remains: is there still ReplayGain, and if so, where can I find it?

 

Thanks again for this great work!

In the audio settings page: click on the loudspeaker icon bottom right, and then on the arrow right of the selected audio device.

On this page you'll find the DSP processing stages in order they are applied:

1. Effects

2. Upsampling

3. Volume control, with ReplayGain

[damien78]

53 minutes ago, stefano_mbp said:

... about the crash: I selected a Conductor then erased the filter selecting All Conductors ... crash

Thanks. Stil trying to reproduce it...

Did you have only one filter: Conductor?

[damien78]

2 hours ago, Nico said:

@damien78Just installed 3.4.99.16. on MacMini2018 10.14.3.

Conversion of database done, old preferences active. After a few clicks no tracks visible anymore, every button inactive, no change of preferences possible. Debug info a white sheet. A+window empty and frozen. No crash report available.

This happened a few times.

What can I do?

Edit: Could fix it with a new installation and no 3.2 preference file.

Edit2: after a few minutes playing with A+ (track list view) the same happens: tracks vanished and A+window is frozen

This indeed looks like an installation issue.

After you have deleted the preferences file, have you rebooted? Some part is cached, and rebooting is the way to ensure the file deletion is really taken into account.

BTW, you'll want to update to 10.14.4 as this Mojave update includes fixes for USB audio.

[damien78]

1 hour ago, stefano_mbp said:

Yes, only one filter ... as I told before is unfortunately random

Ok, I've still not reproduced this issue, but found a place to strengthen the filters reload. You'll tell me if this change in beta 17 (released in about an hour) fixes it.

[damien78]

1 hour ago, stefano_mbp said:

@damien78

 

2 problems detected:

#1

some of my albums contain more than one composer, in this case I fill the album artist with the name of each track composer

The behavior of A+ 3.2.16 and previous releases was to split the tracks grouping them for each album artist

In A+ 3.4.99 if the album artists in each album are more then two the behavior is the same but if they are just two the whole album is grouped under the last/second album artist

example:

track 1 “Claude Debussy” (composer), “Debussy, Claude” (album artist)

track 2 “Claude Debussy” (composer), “Debussy, Claude” (album artist)

track 3 “Claude Debussy” (composer), “Debussy, Claude” (album artist)

track 4 “Maurice Ravel” (composer), “Ravel, Maurice” (album artist)

 

In A+ 3.4.99 in this case the whole album is listed under “Ravel, Maurice”

In A+ 3.2.16 tracks 1-3 were listed under “Debussy, Claude” and track 4 under “Ravel, Maurice”

 

#2

I cannot find a “rule”, it happens that sometimes, using filters, the artwork of some album is the wrong one, clicking on it to open the track list the artwork change to the right one

 

 

Do you have the "Group by first sort criteria" selected in the album sort criteria (in sort criteria section of preferences) ?

Can you also check the database integrity (command in the Maintenance section of preferences)?

[damien78]

43 minutes ago, elcorso said:

Hi Damien,

 

I got this screen every time I try to download the 3.5 Beta:

 

Long time 3.xxx user and License Key is from the original 'avangate" email from October 9, 2017.

order 64204443.

 

Best, 

 

Roch

 

Hi Roch,

just sent you a PM

[damien78]

3 hours ago, stefano_mbp said:

You are right about search result. I use Yate to fill metadata and I fill the ensemble field with Minnesota Orchestra, for instance. As you are explaining up to .... sometime (I never noticed when) the ensemble value was written in the artist field too (and then searchable) but from sometime it is not written anymore in the artist field. I can see it in the artist list but not in the search results.

to better explain see the attached files:

ensemble.zip containing

- ensemble 3.4.99.jpeg

- ensemble 3.2.16.jpeg

- ensemble Yate.jpeg

 

You are showing me a feature I didn't know exist in the macOS predicate editor. I don't know if there are many other users who are as proficient as you are with it!

So this multi-level smart playlist criteria is not implemented in 3.5. But I think you can achieve this using a combo of smart playlist criteria + filters for the orchestras selection

[damien78]

Just released beta 17 with the aforementioned fixes

You can use the "Check for Updates..." command of the Audirvana Plus menu to get it.

[damien78]

1 hour ago, harry.bennett.3994 said:

Still have an issue with the remote app not connecting with V3.5, works fine with V3. Maybe a file location issue, they are in seperate folders?

What is the exact issue?

Not seeing the Mac from the remote?

Needing to enter the pairing code each time? If yes, then deleting the preferences file should help

[damien78]

11 hours ago, phosphorein said:

Does one need to re-enter one's credentials for streaming services and audio settings etc. after installation of the 3.5 beta?

No. Can you check the database integrity using the command in the Maintenance section of the preferences page?

[damien78]

8 hours ago, jhwalker said:

 

I've actually deleted and recreated the database several times.  But I went ahead and tried it again - no go.

 

But I think I've figured out what is going on.  My iTunes library (the "everything else" shared folder) is the ROOT of the "iTunes" share from the Mac Mini.  If I navigate just one level down (e.g., to a subfolder like "ABBA" in the artist hierarchy), Audirvana easily reads the six albums stored beneath.

 

So perhaps your code does not allow scanning from the ROOT of a share instead of at least one level down? 

 

 

 

What folders other than audio files folders do you have at the root of this share?

What kind of data these contain?

[damien78]

43 minutes ago, harry.bennett.3994 said:

When the beta V3.5 version is open on my Mac mini the iPad remote says it is trying to connect but does not, if I close V3.5 and open V3 on the Mac then open the remote app it connects instantly.

Ok, so can delete the Audirvana preferences file, reboot, and try again

[damien78]

4 hours ago, church_mouse said:

Does anyone know how/if one can go back to stable 3.2 from this beta?

 

In my set up I am limited to firewire output to my Manhattan Dac and I use the software volume control in A+.  Sadly, the new volume control software in 3.5beta causes the tracks to play in a distorted half speed form through my Mytek firewire driver.

 

I reported all this to Damien a couple of days ago and asked about rolling back, but I appreciate that he is a busy man, so does anyone else know the practicalities of going back to 3.2 (which I still have)?

 

You won't need to, as I've fixed this issue

You'll get the fix in beta 18 I'm releasing later today