I had to double-check even what day it is, and apparently it's Sunday. In these markets days seem like weeks so I'm not even sure when my last post was, but I wanted to provide an update. Obviously, the quirkiest feature of Audirvana is the IRCAM Amplify analyzer.A lot has happened in the crypto-sphere over the last few weeks, or days. To access it, you have to switch from the full player to the mini player, and then click on the switch, located on the upper left-right. Once you’ve done that, a new window appears and confirm if the file you’re listening to is a real Hi-Res file, or a scam (aka a fake Hi-Res file). I tried that on three files, an album that I personally ripped, an album bought on Qobuz, and a file that I upsampled, thanks to AIPM3 converter (MP3 256kbps -> FLAC 24bit/96kHz). Shame! And for each file, the player was able to confirm it what I was hearing was, indeed, a true Hi-Res file, or not. In fact, I even found out that, sadly, one of the albums I bought a few years ago in DSD, was just a simple oversample of the CD version. So, after all that talk, it’s time to get into the review. The main screen is divided into four different sections: Once installed, Audirvana behaves like every other music apps, or so. a top bar with a search console, sort/filter option, and a button to access the app settings.a left sidebar, where you can find all your sources, local files/radios/podcast/Qobuz/Tidal/Hi-Res Audio.Note that Qobuz/Tidal/HRA won’t appear unless you connect your account in the settings a center frame, where all your files will appear, so you scroll and pick your music.a bottom bar with playback controls, volume, and even quirky things like a playback quality checkerĬompared to the prior version, Audirvana Studio is a major visual upgrade.If you can switch between light and dark themes, the team changes various things like the font, the space between the lines, the overall presentation of your albums, etc… The search engine is good, even if it’s slightly faster on Mac than windows, and surprisingly it’s faster for me to use the Audirvana search engine, than Qobuz own search engine. Like Roon or Plex, the media library can be automatically scanned and sorted. Audirvana relies on fingerprint analysis, like Shazam, and is on-point almost 90% of the time. If you find one track that couldn’t be analyzed correctly, you can tag it manually, directly from the player. Lastly, if I mentioned the oversampling before, Audirvana also has various replay gain settings, to avoid volume/gain mismatch between your tracks and albums. Regular free updates all along the year.Last but not least, we can’t end this review, without talking about the price.Ĭompared to Roon, Audirvana is surprisingly more affordable, as a monthly subscription only costs $/€6,99 or $/€5,88 per month, if you get Studio Access, a yearly subscription. Personally, after the 30-day free trial, I took a Studio Access subscription. To that, you have to add the cost of your music streaming subscription : I kept Plex for my movies/series and took Audirvana for my music. €14.99 for Qobuz Studio Premier, FLAC 24Bit 96-192kHz streaming.€19,99 for Tidal HiFi, MQA streaming + Dolby Atmos.: Sound Performances, Comparison, conclusionĭamien may have done a fantastic job at developing the best music player on the market, but sadly, the software is plagued by usability issues and generally speaking, a mediocre user experience. A large portion of the UI in Audirvana studio is dedicated to streaming services that I am not interested in (considering the poor quality of masters you are going to get on those services), but you still have to deal with a UI and monthly-based subscription model that forces you into the online steaming model. Those like me who supported Audirvana+ over the years are now left with two choices: pay a high monthly fee for a service they don’t need, or keep using Audirvana+, aware of the fact that it’s not going to get any support and improve over time. – Search by name is broken, you select one album in the search results, and it still takes you to a list that includes all albums, so you have to choose again. no way to jump backward/fwd in playback using arrow keys, which is the minimum I’d expect from a music player. – Poor display of metadata, with inline scrolling and poor usage of screen estate.
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