Restarting the application seems to have restarted the process, though its impossible to tell if it is re-analyzing everything, or if the UX is just borked and its picking up from where it left off. The progress bar looked like it should have finished, but it was still grinding away. This was still running after leaving it over night, with a fair amount of RAM and CPU being chewed up by it. If no network connection is available, it just prompts you with what will not function, and lets you know that you need to restart the application if you want the network-supported features once you have a connection again.Īccording to the author, this is computing the acoustic ID for each file so that Studio can lookup metadata via MusicBrainz. And the improved meta-data editor I either can’t find, or it’s more limited than the old one. I assume there’s a discrepancy in the metadata for those albums, and it’s using that to split them, but I can’t see what it is in ANY field. This includes things like it randomly splitting albums into two (or more) entries, with apparently random assignment of tracks between them, and with no apparent way to put them back together. Which further makes me skeptical about it being a ground-up new product. Failing that, I’ll blow the database away the hard way and start over.īut overall, so far, I think every bug I ran into in 3.5 has been faithfully re-created here. I’ll let it finish (if it does) this “Analyzing Audio files” thing it’s doing (glacial, whatever it is), and then try the re-build again. There should be NO albums visible after that, but they are. Rebuilding the database appears to do nothing there, either. Removing the music folder and re-synching leaves all the albums still visible. I will say that its library/database management is, so far, just as weird as 3.5. There’s an “Import Playlist” option, but I don’t have any to import (they’re all in Roon), so I don’t know what options it offers there. I would say scrolling is the same speed as in 3.5. We’ll see how that goes when/if it finished syncing my library. Along with a bunch of new ones, most of which seem to be UX related so far. Quite a few issues that existed in Audirvana 3.5 are still present. Since I only use Audirvana 3.5 on the go, from my laptop, and occasionally for plug-in use, if it won’t work fully disconnected (for at least the same 30 day periods as Roon), I have no use for it. With Roon you can do that no problem you just need to be connected once every 30 days for the metadata sync. My next test, once/if it finishes indexing before I lose all interest, is to see whether it’ll run with no internet connection. Which is amusing given all the claims of “massively improved sound”. Trying the files it has indexed so far, and comparing the output to Audirvana 3.5, the bit-stream is identical. I am not convinced it is going to actually finish at all at this rate. It now says it is “Analyzing Audio Files” … and the progress bar hasn’t moved in 20 minutes. So far it appears to be progressing alphabetically by artist, but I can’t play anything local past “D” yet, and it’s been at it for well over an hour. The status bar showing progress is all over the place. It has yet to finish “Synchronizing” my local library, which is admittedly huge, but even though Audirvana was quite slow at this, it wasn’t THIS slow. But if I change the first Audio Unit, and leave the screen (there’s no “Save” button I can find, and other options are sticky without one), it retains the previous setting. It does save the “Enabled/Disabled” flag.
If you use Audio Units, it doesn’t save the changes to what’s selected. You can get to those settings via “Preferences” and then the “Output Device” box, and the other settings that’ll show up on that page.
The “Audio Output Settings” menu in the menu bar doesn’t do anything. Some things are missing … or I can’t find them, such as being able to see the native path for a local file that is playing (that’s going to be a pain in the arse). Despite the comments that it is a ground-up new product, it feels a lot like Audirvana 3.5 in use. Other than a re-arranged and re-designed UX, which is quite nice overall (fonts could do with being larger, or better yet user-selectable). I’ve been playing with the macOS version of it for a bit over an hour so far … For TIDAL I had to re-login via Audirvana for it to show up. My Qobuz settings came across automatically.
Audirvana studio mac install#
Creating an account and getting the email-link for download was quick and smooth.Īs an existing Audirvana 3.5 user, Studio migrated my settings as part of the install and then immediately started syncing my music library to its new database.
Audirvana studio mac trial#
I signed up for the free trial as soon as it went live.