For months I could not figure out why Audirvana was unable to open certain files that played just fine in iTunes/Music, VLC, Vox, etc. Specifically, a rip to ALAC of the Cluytens Beethoven symphonies. Audirvana’s display of the metadata seemed in order. It just wouldn’t open any of these files.
Tonight I tried, improbable as it seemed, removing the accent aigu from “André” in the name of the enclosing macOS folder. Voilà! All is well.
This on a 2020 iMac running Monterey. I checked on my old 2010 iMac running High Sierra and a diacritic in the folder name does not cause this problem. And I remain a happy user of Audirvana 3.5.5, so this may be of historical interest only.
I have read some posts in the past about this subject on this forum. What I understood is that this problem occurred on some versions of MacOS and not on others. This problem did not occur on Windows.
Well, that was dim of me. I should have searched the archives on “accent” rather than “diacritic.” Then I would have seen that this was a known issue. Though a bit of an odd one.
@RunHomeSlow made the kind suggestion of updating Monterey which did indeed resolve the problem.