Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Despite finding a near-completely-faithful porting of all the issues/bugs I had with Audirvana 3.5 into Studio, and working around various library-related issues (Studio wanting to import my 3.5 library, and totally pooching it ... requiring deleting the entire library and rebuilding from scratch) ... I have to pressing questions ... 1. WTF is it doing that it is taking HOURS to do its "Analyzing audio files ..." thing, and what is the end result of that? 2. How does Studio behave in the face of not having an internet connection? My primary use-case for 3.5 was using my laptop in offline scenarios. Roon works for 30 days without a connection, with no issues. What does Studio do? I'll test it myself when this "analysis" thing finishes (if it ever does), but interested if someone knows the score as things stand ... idesign 1 Link to comment
Popular Post Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 It's a deal-killer issue for me. Not withstanding that at that rate of progress, it would take 166+ days to finish processing my library, I just am not willing to have a useless tag addition (no reason it can't live in Audirvana's database) cause my entire library to have to be re-backed up to the cloud. MemoryPlayer, Tone Deaf, Josh Mound and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment
Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, lucretius said: My files already have that field populated -- nothing to do with Studio. Mine don't. Only the ones that show updated in the last 20 hours or so. All of those touched have the "MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID" added. lucretius 1 Link to comment
Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 16 minutes ago, Jud said: For my own part, I would like to see whether this would be recognized as a difference by my backup program and result in new uploads of those files. I haven't tested yet. (If so, I wonder if there's a way to tell various backup apps to ignore these changes?) It will. If you're lucky, and your backup solution is smart enough, it may only backup the changed blocks rather than the entire file, but it'll be backing up something for every touched file. File backup systems generally aren't built to be conditional on what has changed, beyond block-level change-detection and deduplication. lucretius 1 Link to comment
Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 8 minutes ago, Jud said: Would you happen to know if there are ways to ignore this particular change in rclone and Chronosync, the two backup apps I use most often? Not "out of the box". It might be possible to use the "External Script" rule-type in Chronosync's inclusion/exclusion rules (Rules | Advanced) to do it, but there would be limitations. Mostly because your custom script can't see the existing backed-up file to do a comparison against. Which means all you could do is, for example, say "exclude if this tag is present", rather than "exclude if this tag was newly added", and even then it's fiddly and involved to do. Link to comment
Popular Post Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2021 14 minutes ago, jimdukey said: Is it changing the original files? Yes. It adds a "MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID" tag to each file. lucretius and Musicophile 2 Link to comment
Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 13 minutes ago, aaron8489 said: However, there is a bunch of other info in this field such as dynamic range, peak level, ReplayGain, etc. I certainly did not populate this field, so has Audirvana been writing to my files in 3.5 as well? If it did, it's an optional thing ... I think you have to turn on volume leveling and/or initiate the "Albums Replay Gain analysis" process, as those tags are used for Replay Gain, and are not present in my files. Link to comment
Torq Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Roon is a very different situation. You can only have one Core logged in at a time, but you can have any number of clients and end-points, all controlling and playing different things, in different places, at the same time. Just has to be on the same network. Once license covers all of the devices and users in my home simultaneously. If I wanted to use Audirvana Studio for just TWO different users, suddenly Roon is cheaper (among other things). Link to comment
Popular Post Torq Posted May 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Jud said: Meanwhile, on Audirvana's forums, a poster has advised that bulk selection and deletion of the MusicBrainz ID tag is possible with ID3 Tag Editor (at least - perhaps other metadata software will work also, I don't know). Just bear in mind that this won't stop Chronosync seeing them as changed, nor BackBlaze wanting to push them up to the cloud again. Even resetting the file modification date back as to what they last had (as well as the above change) likely won't do it at this point, either. Tone Deaf, Jud and lucretius 2 1 Link to comment
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