This is the sound that I like too. In the past I tought like most people that cd’s sound better than vinyls. WRONG - that’s because of poor quality of discs and equipements we had in that communism times.
And why you can’t do both with roon?
You can to a certain extent. But when you’re not on your home network you‘re stuck. For example when travelling for work.
Hi, I have a large library(i think) of 150.000 audio files ALAC & FLAC some APE, & off course I can see the quality in Roon but I prefer AS both for local files & Streaming, but I would never do without Roon.
I want them both along with some free alternatives like AIMP4 & Foobar2000.
I also use multiple players, but I fail to understand why do you need two subscription players. If you prefer AS, why do you stick to Roon?
Hi, @Doudou, because I love them both, not in the same way, but love it is. 
Ok, I understand you.
I hate subscriptions. If I could have bought both of them for a reasonable price I would have done it. But Roon is overpriced and AS is not for sale.
For my PC, which is a secondary playback system, I’m happy with what I have. In addition, I’ll take my time to configure Foobar2000 for it.
but for my Mac, that is my main system, I may need to subscribe, because there’s no satisfying alternative that I can buy. It will be either AS, if this player evolves the way I want. Or Roon that I plan to try its v1.8 in the months to come.
We have a music collection of a similar size.
Can you scroll the library with your 150K tracks?
When I loaded to AS just 12K tracks in the first weeks of the trial, the scrolling was so slow, that the player was unusable.
Hi @Doudou, no I don’t think I can do that, but something bothers me though: AS is even not halfway through processing my audio files & I purchased a yearly subscription on July 30, which means AS has had almost a month to process my files & it is not done yet, I use it every day for a few hours.
I have no idea how long it will take to finish the analysis of your tracks. During the trial, I had enough of this analysis and I trashed the database. I continued the trial with just some 50 albums.
I tried it on Mac. PC users had even more troubles with the analysis. But those who insisted finished it. There are threads about it with various useful hacks for PC users.
This is innacceptable for (subscription) paid software. Until now I didn’t use the library feature but I consider using it because I see many advantages. The SQ is good, but I don’t think it’s the only good sq solution at an affordable price, so I will think (twice) when I will have to pay (double) for a second year if the things will not change.
I have a question (just curious). Let’s say you have a good computer and a library of 200k files, mostly flac. You downloaded a new album from the Internet and put on your external sata hdd monitored by AS. How much time will take before the new album downloaded is added to the library, i mean for the syncronization, if you quit and re-open the spp?
This will be fairly quick.
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I’ve just noticed that my library was missing an album - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory by Oasis.
I renamed the folder containg the music files (I removed the brackets) to What’s The Story Morning Glory and re-scanned my music folder. It took about 5 minutes to complete and recognise the ‘new’ folder.
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Thank you. That’s really cool. I will definetely use the library after upgrading my comp. Hope the problem with initial scan time to be fixed until that.
No problem @DGrigorescu 
There have been several posters on here who have had problems scanning/synching their libraries where ‘special’ characters have been included in the folder/filename - % seemingly the most common.
Good luck.
https://community.audirvana.com/t/release-note-audirvana-studio-1-5-7/28025/4
It seems like Damien did something.
“Audio analysis: handle correctly files with special characters in their names”
It’s not only the quality of the computer. For the analysis, AS connects to the servers of MusicBrainz to make them recognize the album with the acoustic fingerprint of the tracks. And this step is very long.
I know it now, because I started since then to use Picard who does the same. It takes a lot of time to MusicBrainz to identify the album.
Analyzing 200K tracks with AS should take some months.
WOW. This is not good, not good. There MUST be an option to turn this off. I read it is, don’t know if works properly.
No, there’s an option to write the MusicBrainz ID tag to the tracks or to the database. But there’s no option to cancel the analysis.
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