I imported my digital files successfully, but when I click on “Artist” in the Local area, I get a list of albums organized by composers, e.g., Ahmir Thompson instead of The Roots. When I double-click on an album (or song?) in this view, it appears on a separate page under the heading “Local Albums as Composer.”
This is puzzling since, when I use the search function for an artist in all sources (Tidal, Local, etc.), the results include artists (not composers) in my Local library. And when I produce a list view of the Local library under Albums, the list correctly identifies both artists and composers.
Other than this, I have found the program more or less intuitive (less so than the original Audirvana). It’s frustrating and odd that I cannot readily find instructions to address such a basic issue.
Thank you, OffRode, I think you’re pointing in the right direction. Even the vocabulary is helpful.
I mean Artist sort, not Album. In Artist sort, when I click on the up/down arrows, I get a menu that offers only one option–“name”–and I don’t see how to sort by artist instead of composer as the sorting is now.
In “My Music,” I have the A-Z sort option shown in your screenshot, but my digital files do not appear in “My Music.” As in your screenshot, all that’s there is Tidal albums and some playlists that I created in Tidal.
Audirvana is working fine for Tidal (better than the original Audirvana, I think). In addition, my own digital files play just fine when I find the one I want to hear. My difficulty is displaying and sorting the digital files (an iTunes library and hi-res files), which appear to be confined to “Local.”
Thanks for keeping at this with me. Here’s the screenshot of Tracks sort. Everything is correct here, including artist and composer. Which gives me confidence the files and metadata are not the problem.
Just tried that, saved, closed and reopened Audirvana. Local Artist sort still displays and sorts composers instead of artists. If only it had a fuller sort menu, like Tracks.
