Since I’m using the 1.3, this is probably why I couldn’t reproduce your issue. I will check with Sonore about it to know if they are able to reproduce the issue on their side or not.
Thank you, @Antoine.
I just noticed that another user, @defiantscientist is having the same issue with their UltraRendu, in another thread, if that’s any help.
I’m truly sorry, @Antoine
Your help is very much appreciated. Please understand that support for Audirvana used to be an empty void, and I am very glad to now have you on the other end.
As a suggestion, in the interests of both transparent communication and management of expectations, it may be a good idea to have your office hours posted somewhere or possibly included in a message signature or elsewhere. I now know that you’re a one-person show, and that you take weekends off, but that’s only because I found out by not hearing back from you for a few days last week.
What Linux distribution do you run on your RBi4?
I confirm that Studio works with RopeeeXL. It does not work well with Volumio.
Why? I don’t know.
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It’s true, but my other UPNP players stream well to Volumio.
I won’t name them, because I don’t want to advertise competing players on the site of Audirvana.
Merrily, we can change the Linux distribution on our RBI and overcome such issues. But the guy who opened this thread can’t do anything about it.
@Antoine, is there any update here? There are multiple users that I have now found on this forum, who are having a similarly, nightmarishly miserable experience, trying to use this software, which, last I checked, was designed to enhance a recreational pursuit.
Anything is better than nothing.
Thanks!
Just restoring a post that a community member saw fit to flag, for some god-unknown reason. I’m doing so, because it provides context for all of my posts, thereafter:
“Same here!
I’m using a 2018 Mac Mini to a MicroRendu. For no discernible reason, Audirvāna Studio consistently, randomly hangs, in between tracks. Why? Who knows! Will they ever address the issue, so subscribers feel like they’re getting the responsive tech support their money should be paying for? Not likely, if past performance is any indication!
Also, I just discovered that it’s difficult-bordering-on-impossible to successfully drag tracks, in the play queue. This is 1980’s-level GUI functionality, for God’s sake! What on earth is wrong with this guy?!
I’m currently on the free trial, and I’m really not sure I’ll be sticking around to pay for this nonsense.
Version 3.2.20 has worked just fine for me, for years now, after I jumped ship on the abomination that was version 3.5. I’m not sure I have the patience to be a paying beta tester for @Damien again, as I shout into a void, asking for things like basic functionality and a consistent, intuitive user interface.”
@Antoine, is there any word on any of this?
My trial will be ending soon, and it goes without saying that I’ll take a hard pass on the opportunity to pay for a music player that doesn’t play music.
Unless you’d like to extend my trial or provide me with some sort of voucher for another one, once the UPnP/ DLNA issue is fixed, it would be great to know what, if anything, is going to be done to address the myriad issues I’ve had with that functionality and several others, before my trial ends, which I believe will be a few days after I return home from my current work trip.
Again, any response is better than no response!
Thanks!
Evening @GaseousClay
Honestly, I feel your pain mate.
Every new release of Studio I firmly (apparently stupidly) believe ‘this is it, it’s FINALLY going to work as it’s supposed to!’ Alas no.
Each NEW release appears to also include a NEW problem (Qobuz is almost un-useable for me at the moment- I’m really not sure of which track, if any, an album I’ve chosen to listen to will start playing). And this is from the main app, the remote is just something that looks pretty on my iPhone but in reality serves little purpose whilst streaming.
I’m also beginning to think the stock response of ‘please submit de-bug information’ is beginning to ring a little hollow. An easy, some would say lazy, response. Especially when no solution appears to be forthcoming. I would think a functioning pause button would be an easy problem to resolve but that appears to not be the case.
If UPnP implementation is as hard as has been mentioned on here (although JRiver/Volumio appear to have no issues with my set-up), perhaps AS shouldn’t be considered an appropriate option as a UPnP player?
I now realise that Studio really isn’t very good (reliability wise), and ROON is probably the better alternative. However saying that, Volumio actually produce their own transport (Primo) which I’m also quiet interested in. I’ve actually been listening to Volumio through my Pi4 for the last three or four hours, with no crashes or restarts required. Exactly as it should be for paid software.
Good luck, and I hope you get your trial extension, before I’m guessing you inevitably give up 
Such a shame, as Studio does sound very good when it actually works satisfactorily, the product that I’m actually paying for.
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Hi @Ironz ,
As I said on an earlier post on another thread, I know for trying it, that Studio does not stream well to Volumio. It’s a fact.
But Studio should work well for you if you run RopieeeXL or Gentooplayer on your RPI.
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Hi @Cloclo
Agreed my friend. That’s why I’m not using Studio to stream to my Pi4, Volumio only.
Also like a fair few others on here, I’m getting more than a little bored in trying to get Studio to work in ANY environment.
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I couldn’t agree more, @Ironz.
I honestly don’t think I’ve had a single album’s worth of listening with Štüdîø that wasn’t affected by some sort of glitch or bug. Most of them, even when I could use it to play music, would hang after one or two songs. It was like listening to digital 45’s. At this point, it’s difficult to even play to a song, let alone an album or a playlist. It’s felt more like being the butt of a bad joke than anything else.
Based on my experience, it actually seems more than a little disingenuous to say that this software so adeptly handles UPnP. It seems more like those who make it should say that it offers limited support for UPnP/ DLNA, with certain renderers.
I’m guessing Antoine’s lack of response means that there’s no solution to this problem in sight, and that I’m unlikely to receive any accommodation, in terms of a trial extension or a new, free trial, once the current issue(s) are addressed. As a result, I’ll likely try to install the latest version of Štüdîø, once I return home, and, if it doesn’t address all of the issues I’ve had, during this miserable trial, I will be purging it completely from my computer, never to return, and abandoning Damien and his falsely advertised software, the same way he abandoned his entire user base, when he completely scrapped everything that worked (including the UI) about Audirvana Plus and embarked on this whole 3.5/ Štüdîø debacle.
I’ve tried JRiver and didn’t care for it. I actually gave up on it, when I found Audirvana Plus, ironically enough. Same with Roon. I doubt I’ll go back to Roon, but maybe it’s time to give JRiver another look. At this point, nothing could be worse than Štüdîø. Even 3.5 was more reliable in my system than this practical joke.
“Audirvāna allows you to wirelessly stream your music to your system without any loss of quality. The software uses the Universal Plug n Play (UPnP) protocol, installed on over 7 billion devices worldwide. If your system is compatible, you can select it from the audio devices list available on your network and start playing your music effortlessly with Audirvāna.”
It’s difficult not to feel mortified, reading something like this, after the experience I’ve had. It really should be modified. As I’ve pointed out previously, in this very thread, realistically managing expectations is one of the keys to effective communication. This has been anything but “effortless”.
It says it clearly, “if your device is compatible”.
Still, if you do clean install from scratch of the OS and install Studio, you should be able to get RPi running RoPieee XL. Most likely microRendu also.
The only other feasible option is Roon. If you’re ok with the cost and your devices are Roon Ready, you’ll be happy with it.
Maybe Damien should develop his own renderer for Studio, just as some competing brands did.
There are at least two who come to mind who did it successfully, and their network players stream rock solid. (I won’t name them on the site of Audirvana.)
@bitracer, I am unwilling to accept that the solution to a software problem is to buy different hardware. All of the Rendu products clearly say they are Audirvana compatible.
Also, as I’ve previously stated, I dislike Roon. The sound quality is poor, and the interface is godawful.
But the fact that Audirvana does not work with Volumio is very strange, because other upnp players do. I know it, because I checked it by myself.
Volumio is a very popular software with hundreds of thousands of users, if I’m not mistaken. A player maker, like Audirvana, can not have the luxury of giving away to such a big community of potential customers.
Antoine should report this issue to Damien, and fixing it should be a top priority, in my humble opinion.
Then the only solution is clean install from scratch of the operating system and then installing Studio. That’s unfortunately the easiest way to resolve this.
It has happened before with just about every audiophile distro. At some point comes the version that breaks the compatibility and the very next one repairs it.
It should be also the responsibility of the maintainers to verify compatibility with popular software on the market.
You can’t expect just Audirvana to chase the moving target.