Amarra 2.1 Released!

[iamoneagain]

I had it crashing too but there is a way to fix this. You need to unlink it through iTunes in a very weird place.

 

In iTunes, go to View, Visualizer, AmarraPlugIn. Then go back to View, Visualizer, Options, and uncheck boxes.

 

Someone kindly posted this before much earlier in the thread. Such a strange place to link the software.

 

For now, I'm done with messing around with Amarra until the next release. Decibel is working flawless. I was able to load Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in it's entirety and had real gapless playback without sucking up all my memory to load both discs all at once.

 

[Vitor]

Done that. Unsuccessfully.

Amarra window still "hidden".

I'll guess i'll stay with Decibel for a while.

 

[proftournesol]

I don't suppose that you may have the Amarra preferences to 'Hide on Launch'?

 

[wdomeika]

Pure Music and Amarra. I also respect your level of tolerance for annoying WIP problems. It's good to hear that Rob at Pure Music and others are responsive...that's their job...it's reassuring to know they do it well.

 

Personally, for the money Amarra demands. It should run flawlessly. Pure Music as well. Or they should admit that what they really are doing is conducting extended UAT and give a little back to the score of people like yourself who patiently send them vital information on required improvements.

 

This type of half commercial release/half beta doesn't have in too many counterparts in the rest of the apps/SAAS world where the beta users are forking over significant user fees to basically be a beta test group.

 

my two cents.

 

 

Cheers,

 

 

Bill

 

[Vitor]

erh...not my best day Michael...

 

[Lars]

Pure Music 1.74 is pretty solid. I really have no problems. I think this expectation for perfection is unrelaistic as no sofware I own, be it Windows or OSX, is perfect. If the trial programs are too buggy for you, then don't buy it.

 

I agree that at the price Amarra is asking, there should be state-of-the art everything. Heck, there is no hog like Pure Music, Fidelia, or Decibel. And Pure Music and Fidelia offer excellent remote features. I'm afraid "better math" just isn't cutting it today.

 

 

 

[proftournesol]

i think that it's unrealistic to expect it to run flawlessly. I do expect identified problems to be fixed in a reasonable time period though. Given that Amarra is being used on different types of Mac, with different OSX versions, different iTunes versions and different ancillary software, how can you thoroughly anticipate every contingency?

 

[iamoneagain]

I wouldn't be bother by the occasional glitch, but having glitches most of the time is unacceptable. I got tired of the sound overlap glitch when using seamless operation, so I started using playlists. This fixed that problem but my track looping problem was still there so I finally gave up.

 

Given the fact that Decibel has been running flawless for me and is currently free, I do expect more from Amarra. If their competition can pull it off, they should be able to do it too. Although I didn't end up liking Pure Music's sound, they pretty much pull off the seamless integration Amarra is trying for.

 

[bottlerocket]

"I think it is unrealistic to expect it to run flawlessly" I call BS. A good software company makes design choices to eliminate the risk of poor performance. Amarra is doing an extremely poor job of this. Have you tried their conversion functionality? Have you tried their memory play? Come on, why wouldn't we expect perfection from any functionality offered especially at the prices they demand in a market place where the competition is better quality at a lower price?

 

[proftournesol]

bottlerocket, have you any software that runs flawlessly? I must say that I have tried the flac -> alac conversion and it worked fine, I use memory play all the time and apart from sometimes getting a message that the playlist I've selected can't be loaded because I haven't selected a playlist, I don't have any problems. I don't even get the first few seconds of a song cut off as many others do. I'm not a heavy user as i mostly listen to vinyl, but even if I was, I wouldn't expect perfection at any price.