My system:
Audirvana Mac version 3.5.46 (3576)
macOS 10.14.6 with 16384MB RAM
The upsampling function also shows the error for me - if I deactivate it, the error disappears.
But since it is a powerful tool for sound shaping that I don’t want to do without, I experimented with the settings and found out the following:
I get the error when two conditions in the Audirvana preferences are met at the same time:
Upsampling is active.
Preload memory is larger than approx. 500 MB.
So: The error disappears when the preload memory is reduced.
Interestingly, the threshold is not fixed. In my first attempts, the healthy limit was 514 MB. After restarting Audirvana, it changed to 537 MB.
After freeing up computer RAM by closing several programs and restarting Audirvana, it was 529 MB.
It would be interesting to know whether these phenomena can be confirmed by other users - and which respective preload memory settings are the critical values on their respective systems.
I have had a similar problem with Studio. It would randomly stop playing a track at any point (ie not limited to near the end) and go to the beginning of the next. This only happened on some albums and usually the second (slow) movement of a classical piece eg a symphony or concerto. This was also when streaming from Qobuz. I reduced the buffer a little and it seems to have stopped. I also had the skipping problem on 3.5 when upsampling and nothing fixed that except not using upsampling. My setting is 2200-2400 mb
For most users (like me) this has been fixed few months ago. No problems at all with only one exception: I have some mp3 audiobooks at low bitrate and with them the problem occure, last +/- 5 seconds of every track are cutted. Not big deal since I can play that content with VLC - is not music and is low bitrate.
I have discovered that the jumping track problem is linked to the file format… un compressed AIFF (I use a Macbookpro) seems to avoid this inconvenience. Today I bought a hi-res recording from qobuz and in m4a format the tracks were being slightly truncated… I downloaded it again in uncompressed AIFF and low and behold all went well!
UPnP problems are back for me as well. It was gone for a few versions, finally, after years of complains. And it’s back since maybe the last two versions. This time, it just doesn’t read the next song. I also had the typical “stop before the end”. I thought we were through, I don’t know what happened but it’s back. And nothing changed. I’m still playing ALAC files (mostly CD quality) with no upsampling, from the macOS version of Audirvāna Studio, through ethernet to a Yamaha WXC-50.
Probably not helpful but I ended up converting all my ALAC files to FLAC using Pro Audio Converter, once converted I get no issues with tracks cutting off. For me it was the lower res 16/44.1 ALAC files that cut off when UPnP to KEF LS50 WII. Seems to be limited to ALAC files. One workaround that worked with the ALAC files for me was turning on upsampling to “device maximum frequency”. The track cut off then disappeared. Converting to FLAC was the ultimate solution for me, never had a track cut-off since with no upsampling enabled.
def helpful to know what the problem is – that there is a bug in the Audirvana code for handling ALAC files. Obvs, the whole point of the software is that it should handle ALAC and FLAC files with equal correctness.
@Antoine can you pls see this post & various previous ones (there are about 8 or 10 over last several months). And can you pls provide Audirvana users with an update on i) if someone at Audirvana is working on fixing this, and ii) When the bug will be fixed?
I started having this problem again. It seems to reoccur with every Origin update so I deleted the local libraries on Origin, readded them, and it’s rescanning the libraries. It will take hours… I will report if this solves the problem.
I’m not sure why this worked; I’m sure there will be suggestions. Anyway, I moved everything to the right (happy to hear opinions on this), but left the SoX Phase at ‘Minimum’. I kept having the 2-3 second cut-off at the end of almost every song - very annoying. When I moved the same slider to ‘Linear’ the problem disappeared. It’s been two weeks now and not one track has cut off early. Just a thought.
Still happening. Mostly on albums which need gapless playback. It will stop just before the end of the track then come on again a second or so before the end and go on to the next track. As if it doesn’t know where the end of the track is but anticipates it. This is when streaming from Qobuz. It had definitely stopped before version 2.0 was issued. It has happened on ordinary (not gapless tracks). It is not reproduceable as it is random. I am using buffer set to approx 4000. Kernel streaming.