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This enables all to use all the display, navigation and search features with them. Metadata is saved into the audio files when editing it. Album vigneUe acEons By moving the mouse over an album vignette, three active controls are revealed:.

Clicking on it pauses playback if this is the currently playing album, or starts playing back this album otherwise. The tracks list is sorted by track number and the rows are grouped according to the "Grouping" or musical piece information.

This enables to quickly see the pieces and their movements e. When different composers are on the same album, the composer is displayed inside parentheses on the "Grouping" row. Dragging a grouping row to the Play Queue or a playlist will take all the tracks inside the grouping. Clicking on it will change the album rating. Note that to set rating of value 0, the easiest way is to drag the value with the mouse to the left like if it was a cursor. The behavior of the album tracks list is otherwise the same as the general tracks list view.

As for the tracks list view, the sort order of the albums can be configured in the list presenting the sort criteria by decreasing order of priority.

The second line below the album front cover image can be chosen between the album artist, the artist, and the composer note that in case of an album with different composers, only one of the composers or artist is displayed In addition, the first sort criteria can be used to split the album list in groups, by selecting the "Automatically group albums using the first criteria" option.

This gives a view of albums as shown below:. Each group can be collapsed, showing only the group title with the number of albums in it, or expanded to reveal the albums of the group by clicking on the arrow on the left of the group title line. All groups can be collapsed at once or expanded by clicking on one of the two buttons located at the bottom right of the view.

Note that albums that have tracks belonging to different groups will be split among those groups. Switching views, highlighEng playing track Switching between view types list or album is done by selecting the view type by clicking on the wished one as shown below:.

In any view, the currently playing track can be highlighted when present in the currently viewed playlist by using the "Scroll to playing track" command of the View menu, or using Cmd L shortcut. It presents the list of tracks that have been deleted from the library see Deleting tracks for how to , sorted by album and track number. Restoring tracks back to the library By clicking on "Restore selected tracks" button, the selected tracks will be placed back into the library.

DeleEng permanently tracks By pressing on the "Delete selected audio files" button, the audio files corresponding to the selected tracks will be deleted from disk. Warning: For local volumes this will mean the audio files are moved to the trash, but for network shares, the audio files will be deleted permanently. An additional warning message will ask to confirm this permanent, not undoable operation. Please note that some audio files may contain several tracks e.

In this case, deleting permanently the audio file will remove all of its tracks from the database. This is stated in a special warning message as shown in the example below:. Metadata ediEng The metadata for a track, multiple tracks at a time, and an album can be edited by using the "Show Metadata" command of the View menu or Cmd I shortcut.

This opens the metadata editor panel on the right of Audirvana Plus window, displaying the metadata of the selected items. Its contents are updated when the selection e. So the metadata panel can be used to show the detailed metadata of a track or album , even when not willing to edit it. When any metadata value is modified, two buttons appear at the bottom of the metadata editor panel as shown above:.

The corresponding audio file needs to be accessible for the save operation to work - Revert: shortcut Cmd. Discard any changes, and revert to the tracks previous values. It presents four blocks of metadata that can be collapsed or expanded by clicking on the Hide or Show button on the right of their header bar.

Corresponding audio file name, and full path the full path can be hidden by clicking on the small triangle left of the file name. Clicking on the arrow on the right of the path reveals the audio file in a Finder window. The button Recompute ReplayGain triggers re analysis of the audio file dynamics.

Track title, Grouping title. Example of usual use of the Grouping metadata is to group movement tracks of the same piece e. The track title can be complemented with a name used for sorting. Artists list, Composer name. Genre name. When typing the first letters of the name, a list of genres already in the database is presented in a popup menu for faster typing. Disc Number, total discs count in the set 8.

Track individual rating from 0 to 5 stars. Note that to set the value of 0, the easiest way is usually to drag the rating to the left as if it was a cursor. The name of the conductor usually in classical music 2. The orchestra or band name 3. The name of the soloist 4. The main instrument e. Piano, Violin, Guitar 5. The piece format e. Sonata, Concerto, Symphony, Opera or a style detailing the genre for non classical music 6.

The period of the music e. Baroque, Romantic The Conductor, Ensemble, and Soloist are automatically added to the artists list of the track they are all artists. Album title. Changing the title enables to attach the track to already existing album when selecting one from the list in the popup menu that appears when typing the first letters of the album title , or create a new one.

Album artist name 3. Album image. The album information cannot be changed in the track metadata editor. Album title, artists, image, rating can be modified in the Album metadata editor. The Album metadata editor is displayed when an album is selected and no track is selected. Free text comments. MulEple tracks When multiple tracks are selected, the metadata panel displays the metadata fields whose values are common among the selected tracks.

The other fields are left empty. Enables to change the album title 2. Album artist. The main artist of the album 3. Album front cover image. This can be changed either by dropping a new image on it, or by pressing the change button and then selecting an image file in the file selection popup window. Album rating.

The whole album rating from 0 to 5 stars. Such a situation will make more difficult finding a track or an album e. Select them all using Cmd A shortcut. It makes possible to rename the name of the artist displayed and the one used for the sorting. Please note saving those changes can take some time, especially if the renamed artists are in numerous tracks.

All audio files referencing the renamed artists are updated in this save process. This also gives you the opportunity to use the Remote application running on iPhone or iPad for remote control. But note that the sound quality will be affected by having iTunes running along with Audirvana Plus.

In this mode, the Audirvana Plus main window is still active and can be raised if desired by clicking on the Audirvana Plus dock icon. Note that Audirvana Plus will play all iTunes music files except DRM protected, tracks on the Cloud or on Home Sharing libraries , and automatically deactivate itself for the Internet radios that will still be played directly by iTunes.

You can switch between the classic playlist mode and the complete iTunes integration by using the iTunes Integrated Mode command in the Audirvana Plus menu. Volume Control Volume Knob: There are three types of volume control, depending on the device capabilities, and the user preferences: - Master red cursor : the device provides a remote volume control feature that is inside the DAC and normally of optimal quality. See your DAC user manual for this. Should typically be set at 0dB to ensure bit perfect output.

If the device provides no volume remote control and dithered volume control is not enabled in user preferences, the volume control knob is inactive. Depending on the user preferences, the knob is rotated using a vertical default , horizontal or rotational motion of the mouse.

The album image is gathered from, in order of priority: - The image embedded in the audio file - A folder. Technical information is given at the bottom of the LCD screen: - On the left: Playing track file type, and native bit depth and sample rate - On the right: The DAC current bit depth and sample rate.

On the right column are some playback status indicators: - CPU: the red CPU sign indicates an unexpected pause in audio playback. The most frequent source of such issues is a lack of available memory. Try to exit other memory hungry applications e. Track playing posiEon The current playing position in minutes:seconds is displayed on the left, and the track total duration is on the right of the playing position cursor.

Dragging the playing position cursor or clicking directly on a different position makes the playback seek to this position. Inside this playing position track is given information about the loading progress, in form of a grey progress bar. Note this is the way iTunes handles these M3U files - Automatically start playback when Audirvana is opened with a track or playlist usually when double-clicking on such a file in the Finder - Save the current playlist when exiting, and automatically reload it the next time Audirvana is opened - Display playlist, library tracks using a larger font.

ApplicaEon Updates Audirvana Plus can automatically connect to audirvana. Miscellaneous opEons - During playback, Audirvana Plus can deactivate the screen saver - Some user operation warnings e.

This command reactivates them. It is used if available connected when starting playback, otherwise the system default device is used. The preferred or default if not connected audio device name is displayed in the Active Audio Device paragraph, as well as its handled sample rates. Simple Decimation the algorithm used before version 1.

This enables a further shorter audio signal path for better sound quality, and gives possibility to enable Integer Mode in Lion and later. Integer mode: In this mode Audirvana Plus directly sends the audio data to the lowest level in CoreAudio, bypassing the driver audio mixer and the format converter.

This enables to achieve very high sound quality. There are two different streaming modes in Integer Mode: Mode 1 that brings the highest transparency, and soundstage depth Mode 2 that is more on the warm side Choose the one that fits the best your system and listening tastes. Increasing this value will reduce further the disk accesses and the associated interferences.

As a rule of thumb it is best to leave at least 2. In addition if the bridge is offering both 24bit and 32bit bitdepth, you can limit the bitdepth to 24bit by selecting Limit max bitdepth to 24bit instead of 32bit. MulEchannel capability The total number of channels of the audio device is shown, as well as the channels configuration in use. In the case the audio device is used only in two channels stereo output, the option Use as stereo only can be used to optimize the audio path.

After having selected the audio device in the list left of the main window , click on Configure Speakers… to raise the speakers selection popup. There you can set the channel mapping for the multichannel configuration or Stereo if you have selected the Use as stereo only setting.

Sample Rate Conversion Sample Rate Conversion happens when - The audio device does not handle the audio track sample rate - Upsampling is forced. Note that with high initial sample rates, the best quality setting especially for Apple CoreAudio may be demanding too much computing power for some Macs thus giving in playback pauses. Higher steepness will reject unwanted frequencies but cause more ringing in the time- domain and a higher CPU load - Max filter length: controls the memory and CPU usage used by the resampling filter.

It sounds so good. The better your system the more you will love it. It does great things for all music lovers. You can try it for 30 days so you have nothing to lose and it is well worth the price.

It completely changes the game on streaming boxes because you don't have to spend thousands. You can use a good computer and then bypass its internal audio settings and let Audirvana use its own control which will keep the music and say goodbye to the internal computer noise. Think I'm joking? Decades long audiophile and you have a free trial for 30 days. So what do you have to lose? Go for it! Search is so slow I would call it non-functional. Allowing my mouse pointer to even touch an active window sets the beach ball spinning for several minutes.

This is basically a useless program for me. I get zero enjoyment from it. Maclover Jul 3 Apple Music cannot display most of my artwork which sucks sooooo bad Audirvana shows them all..

I'd give it 5 stars if the UI wasn't so bad.. It looks cheezy as does the logo and is not well thought-out. It feels like there is no real UI designer in that team. The website looks homemade as well.. M87 Apr 26 I bought Audirvana after a trial because of its really good sound quality.

But after using it for 5 months I have to say that it has become so slow that I cannot use it without swearing anymore. Every time you click into an album and then go back to the main list, you get the spinning wheel. When you scroll up and down the lists, you get the spinning wheel. I mean c'mon guy at Audirvana, upon a little bit of googling, you see so many reports of people complaining about how SLOW your software is.

Can't you just fix it? I am using the latest 3. I really can't recommend this product. On my Macbook, half the time I use it, the music doesn't connect to my amp or speakers, just plays through my computer. I haven't found any troubleshooting answers. There is no contact information on their website. What kind of company would not provide contact information to their customers??? What kind of people are these? The best I have heard on my Mac Air. Great together with the Dragonfly DAC!

This is a great application if you want to hear your music in the best possible quality quality. I tried several others, but this one is the best and it also could stream your music to UPnP-devices, like the ultraRendu.

RunHomeSlow Oct 11 If you got ears, you gotta listen! If you want to use Audio Units with this, which is why I bought it many years ago and it ran flawlessly you can forget about it. It simply doesn't work with AU engaged. No sound. I figured it was a bug they'd sort out so I left it over a year before updating and they haven't fixed it. Check their support forum and you'll see its the same with everyone.

Worst customer response I've come across in a long time. To know that their product fails in one vital area and just leave it broken for years when it's a unique selling point. We're sorry but peatix-frontend doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.

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