1.0 was pretty much the same a Audirvana 3.5 in that regard, now it’s markedly worse. For example, plug-in settings still don’t save correctly, filtering/sorting doesn’t work right.Īnd then scrolling through Albums is suddenly a VERY staccato/jerky affair. Some of the UX issues have been resolved (menus/buttons going nowhere), but most of the ones I ran in to have not.
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Sometimes it sees them, sometimes it doesn’t, and when it does, sometimes it is showing incorrect names. It is not correctly finding/identifying the DLNA/UPnP capable devices on my network. And this step still chews up CPU usage and incurs a lot of I/O.ĭLNA/UPnP replay seems to have gotten worse. And despite an explicit statement that you can quit the app and restart and it will pick up where it left off, it seems to start from scratch every time. It still goes through it’s “Analysis” step which, while faster still hasn’t actually completed. Though if you choose to enable Replay Gain, it will still put those tags (eight, in total, I think) in all your files, so bear in mind the toggle is JUST for the Music Brainz stuff. That does, indeed, stop Audirvana from updating your files.
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One of the things the update adds is an off-by-default toggle to control whether Audirvana actually updates your files with the MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID. Out of purely morbid curiosity*, and because it was a slow day, I tried out the just-updated version 1.2 of Audirvana Studio.
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But I’ll let that one play out a while before I do.įrom my perspective, it is quite a feat to turn a long-term customer away from your product to the extent that they move to a “more expensive” competitor … and in doing so force them to realize that it’s actually cheaper given what the respective tools require/do … in less than 24 hours. If it wasn’t for the potential of Apple’s move with lossless/hi-res music potentially holing TIDAL and Qobuz below the waterline, I’d do another lifetime sub. And I get way more capability for that $24/year.
#Beatunes tags in file license#
Now, for $2 more a month, I might as well put a new Roon license on that laptop and just skip Audirvana entirely. The $79 price was perfectly reasonable, and it was light enough to fit well in that scenario. It’s a real shame, as I have used Audirvana for a long time on my laptop when traveling. But a real problem if you’re using cloud-based backup, especially with a large library and/or limited bandwidth. Not necessarily a big deal if you have a small library and do local backups.
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Which seems relatively benign (it isn’t modifying existing tags as far as I can tell, just adding an ID into MusicBrainz) until you realize it’s going to force all your files to get backed up again. Obvious stuff here, like menu options taking you nowhere, buttons that don’t do anything, settings that won’t stick/save.Īnd then there’s the big one … it adding tags to your files. That’s all ignoring all the other issues with it, including many not fixed from 3.5. Never mind that Studio doesn’t have anywhere near the same level of functionality, capability or polish.Īnd if it’s just you, but you want to run it on your main computer and a laptop? You have to fuck about logging out of your account on one machine (from that machine) so that you can log in on your other. Want to use Audirvana Studio for two people simultaneously? Well, now it is going to cost you more than Roon would. Most of the complaints I hear about Roon relate to the price - either that it is a subscription, or that the lifetime license is $699.īut for that price you can run as many clients, users and end-points, all playing different tracks, to different devices, as you want.