You did not check HQPlayer alone without Roon that creates a perdition of the sound quality.
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I have an active subscription to HRA.
With “remote”, I mean “Audirvana remote”.
Audirvana Studio and the new released Audirvana Remote have a bug related to HRA.
They don’t function properly.
The just days ago released Audirvana Studio remote does not work for HRA streaming.
It sucks big time. It was not beta tested properly.
Yes it is a Topping D90. Non-MQA version. I use Windows. But it’s not just with the Toppings. DSD512 is prone to popping when starting or changing on lots of DACs and programs but it would be nice if Audirvana would work on it a bit considering that now its very consistent. It’s not just random any more. Sometimes the two clicks are very close together, sometimes they can be a few seconds apart before starting the track.
What’s more annoying is now it is at every start when streaming Tidal regardless of whether I stop the player or not. I used to avoid it for the most part by starting from stop and not bouncing around between random tracks without stopping the player. Now even if I stop the player I get a pop every time I restart anything. I can occasionally avoid it in 3.5 and AS by sticking to non-MQA tracks from Tidal but that is not as easy to see now in the searches whether something is MQA or not.
The only way to avoid pops is to have that initial one and then put the rest of what I want to listen to for the session into the queue. I get no pops during playback or between albums and track in the queue when they are in the queue. I have made many changes to my system over the past few months and the only thing constant with it is DSD512 and Tidal and Audirvana. I also don’t get the pops on my local files upconverted to DSD512.
The popping isn’t the end of the world for me. I listen to a lot of electronic and experimental music, usually loudly, so my speakers have been through worse. But if it is something so consistent, it should be fixable.
I’ve tried PCM up to 768k and tried Kernel streaming, ASIO and Wasapi over time and again with AS but the best sounding for me with my Topping is ASIO DSD512 (B 7th order) with Tidal and my local files. Nothing else pops but nothing sounds better. And it seems to sound even a little bit better now with AS. Definitely a bit more open. Seems to be blacker silences and a little more of a 3D and tight image.
The one definite fix for me in AS compared to 3.5 is that I can seem to play longer files now through Tidal without having Audirvana consistently crash about 15 minutes in. I seem to be able play 30 and 45 minute pieces and movements without the program stopping and crashing. So that’s nice.
Thanks for the tip. I am going through my files changing any symbols I find out of the ordinary.
Audirvana Studio works now with HRA streaming when played from my Mac. Version 1.55
The Audirvana remote does NOT work for HRA streaming.
Please update the remote.
After restart of my Ipad, I make a correction:
Audirvana Remote also works for HRA streaming. Looks like all ok now.
Thank you Damien.
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Analyzing of my music files has finally been completed! I had to keep making smaller folders and reinstall them to find out what was causing my problems and then renaming some of them. I believe it was as MikeO and sandsOfArrakis suggested that certain symbols like quotation marks, % and the 2 dots above the letter O and similar things were preventing the analyzing to be completed. It was very time consuming as I also reinstalled 1.5.5 twice starting from scratch each time. No such problems ever occurred with Bluesound, Jriver or Logitech Media Server which I also use.
Now I am unable to make Playlists from my Library on AS after being able to do so previously. I can make them fine on 3.5 and AS using Qobuz.
Big thanks to all the great suggestions I got here from Doudou, sandsOfArrakis, MikeO and others here.
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Yes my question too.
Hey guys. I’m facing some issue while scrolling albums. The best way to describe was recording the screen. Not happened this time but some times the program crashes…
I get this too. I reported it here: Local Artist page - graphical glitch - #8 by lucretius
This problem still exists in Studio 1.5.6 (Windows)
I hope they fix it.
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I must say that version 1.5.6 works quite nicely on my side.
The scrolling speed issues I had on earlier releases are now gone.
Now I need last.fm integration instead on relying on my python script, and maybe a future Apple Music integration (yeah, sorry Qobuz, but an Euro is an Euro…)
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Bonsoir, oui en effet cela marche de cette façon. Mais aucun retour a ce sujet de la part de Damien.
D’autre part en surechantillonnant il apparaît un craquement en début de lecture de chaque fichier en mode Kernel, pas en mode Asio ou Wasapi. Désagréable.
Ok, I decided to give Studio a try.
I noticed it tried to import my old 3.5 library but when finished, it started to analyse the folders with audio files. And this is taking ages… Started yesterday and 24H after it barely reaches 1/3 of the total amount as shown in the progress bar.
What shall I do, as we have no log available to understand what is going on (Corrupted DB?)?
Shall I stop it, delete the library and restart? Shall I put my old library aside so that it can rebuild something new?
Thanks for any help.
Maybe import your folders in bits , if you can split your library so you import smaller chunks ?
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The progress bar is not reliable at all. It can show 90% progress and still run for a week.
All depends on how many tracks you have to scan, and if you run AS under Mac or PC. If your library is big, and you run the PC version, the analysis may take a few weeks.
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I’ve had this issue with the Windows version of AS. If you are using Windows open up Task Manager and see if Audirvana Studio still uses the CPU and if there is hard disk activity. If both answer as no, then the program has likely frozen because of a corrupted database.
Other symptoms I’ve had relating to frozen AS was the inability to close the program by clicking on the X button in the menu bar. Or rightclicking on the AS icon on the taskbar and selecting close program also didn’t work. Only killing AS in Task Manager would.
I’ve ended up with splitting my library in smaller chunks and then importing one chunk at a time. When a chunk was imported succesfully I would create a backup of the library. So that if the next chunk failed, I could just copy the backup and the program would function again.
You can find the database file here
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Packages\Audirvana***\LocalCache\Local\Audirvana\Audirvana\AudirvanaDatabase.sqlite
Audirvana*** has a different name on each computer. AudirvanaDatabase.sqlite is the actual database file.
Make sure you have set up Explorer so it shows hidden files.
On my Mac I didn’t have any issues at all 
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This is because you were lucky to start your trial after the MusicBrainz tag became optional.
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thanks Mike for the tip. But, I used the very same folder with the 3.5 version and the process was significantly faster.
Maybe I will try to put the library in a different folder and rebuild it from scratch.
This is the method I also used after spending a couple of weeks attempting to get Studio to finish analysing my library.
Following a clean install of Studio I simply created a new folder on the drive containing my music files, pointed Studio to this new location (so a nice blank database), and then MOVED my files across to this new folder alphabetically. I periodically closed Studio and made a copy of the database file, and then re-opened Studio and started moving the next batch across. Whenever the synch failed I’d restore the last known good database and skip the folders in question.
I then moved these ‘faulty’ folders across individually, giving me a chance to detect folders which may contain something Studio doesn’t like (in my case it was a ‘%’ sign in a filename that caused Studio to freeze whilst synching).
I believe a few others on here have done similar.
This is also true.
I found that my compilation albums took far longer to analyse, possibly due to the varying nature of the multiple artists concerned?