Hi there! It’s been a minute and I’ve been busy moving across country from Tampa, FL to Tumwater WA. It’s been a journey, but well worth it.
So, my question today is has anyone installed Audirvana Core on a Linux desktop distro (like Bazzite in my case), and used the Android app to control the music?
I’m looking to move away from Windows (like so many others), and I’d like to keep using and supporting Audirvana and it’s awesome sound quality. Since there’s no Linux UX version, I’m up to trying to use Core on the PC as I’ve described.
Please let me know if there’s a tutorial or post in the threads that could help me out.
A KDE desktop version would be awesome, but I’m fine with Core & phone app control for now.
I have a couple of Linux desktop distros that I run Core on (one Arch-based, one Ubuntu-based) and control with the remote (iOS remote in my case). Has worked just fine since Core came out. (I’ve had a couple of hiccups with a USB connected DAC lately, but it doesn’t look like Audirvana’s fault.)
Audirvāna working fine on Linux Mint (also XFCE-version) here.
I have chosen to connect everything by ethernet cable as it made the whole setup much more stable. So laptop (old Dell Latitude E6440) with cable to router and also cable from router to renderer (Naim ND5 XS 2).
Thank you both for your response and insights. My concern is that the install packages are either Debian (.deb) or RPM. Bazzite is an atomic / immutable system, and while I could install the RPM package, it’s generally not recommended.
I guess I need to get more comfortable in with the Linux architecture and then I’ll give it a shot. Worse that could happen is I need to roll back the system, which doesn’t seem difficult.
If all that seems like too much of a hassle or doesn’t work, maybe try some other Fedora version that lets you install packages using dnf. Or Ubuntu or variant that allows you to use apt. (Or you could try an Arch-based distro, but that’s getting a little more involved.)
Well, I got it to install and start the service, but the status seems to indicate a critical error (see below). Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
● audirvanaStudio.service - Run audirvanaStudio
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/audirvanaStudio.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-03-26 15:57:29 PDT; 18min ago
Invocation: b156c92ff8ed41abb382009132d45c37
Main PID: 6462 (audirvanaStudio)
Tasks: 83 (limit: 32945)
Memory: 71.6M (peak: 74.1M)
CPU: 40ms
CGroup: /system.slice/audirvanaStudio.service
└─6462 /opt/audirvana/studio/audirvanaStudio
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite systemd[1]: Started audirvanaStudio.service - Run audirvanaStudio.
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: /opt/audirvana/studio/audirvanaStudio: /lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/audirvana/stu>
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: /opt/audirvana/studio/audirvanaStudio: /lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/audirvana/stu>
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: 2026-03-26 15:57:29.062 [info]: ============= Started Logging, Audirvana Studio 3.0 Linux x86_64 =============
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: 2026-03-26 15:57:29.066 [info]: Running on Bosgame BeyondMax Series running Linux 6.17.7-ba29.fc43.x86_64 x86_64
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: 2026-03-26 15:57:29.066 [info]: No language set in settings, using system language: en_US.UTF-8
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: 2026-03-26 15:57:29.088 [warning]: EULA not accepted yet, showing it
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: 2026-03-26 15:57:29.088 [info]: This Core Player App is ‘headless’ and is fully controlled from your smartphone or tablet wi>
Mar 26 15:57:29 bazzite audirvanaStudio[6462]: 2026-03-26 15:57:29.088 [critical]: RemoteServer: unable to retrieve host name. Please check /etc/hostname has valid content
And the line about the EULA, really?
Never mind. Found the answer on the Google machine. It just needed a local host name in that file, Now to see if the phone app can connect, wish me luck!
It appears to be working, but I’m going to need a new USB cable for my iFi DAC to connect to the shared USB switch. It doesn’t like going to my USB speakers because the system is already using that device.
Had to figure out how to get Pipewire to not grab the DAC once I plugged it in with the new cable, but doing that and restarting the service I have full control and great sound.
