I think I saw someone else ask this same question a few years ago in FAQ but didn’t see the answer.
My music library was built in iTunes - pre-iMusic. When I syched Audirvana, my screen shows two (or more) instances of every album. Most instances are identical, but a few show fewer tracks than are shown in iMusic.
As an aside, I’d like to give up using iMusic entirely. Before doing that, I’d like to understand the reason for the apparent duplications of albums.
This bug has been around forever. The solution is that either you have 2 copies of your library without knowing it, or else your computer needs a firmware update.
Hello @Boatmikr33,
Can you send me a copy of the “Debug Info”? You can get it in Audirvana Settings>General>Debug Info
Note: By clicking on the Debug Info button, Audirvana automatically copies all its content, all you have to do is paste it in response to this message
Audirvana Mac Version 3.5.38 (3568)
macOS 10.15.5 with 32768MB RAM
Registered to Michael Davis
SIGNAL PROCESSING:
Polarity Inversion:
Globally: OFF
Per track: ON
Effects plugins NOT ACTIVE
UPSAMPLING:
SoX with device max frequency upsampling
SoX filter parameters
Bandwidth at 0dB = 99.5
Filter max length = 30000
Anti-aliasing = 100
Phase = 66
AUDIO VOLUME:
Max allowed volume: 100
Replay Gain: None
SW volume control: OFF
LIBRARY SETTINGS:
Sync list: 1 folders
AUTO: /Users/Michael/Music/Music
iTunes/Music library synchronization: last synchronized on Thu Jun 18 13:42:43 2020
Library database path: /Users/Michael/Library/Application Support/Audirvana/AudirvanaPlusDatabaseV2.sqlite
ACTIVE STREAMING SERVICES
=================== AUDIO DEVICE ========================
CoreAudio audio path, buffer I/O frame size: 512
Max. memory for audio buffers: 29696MB
Local Audio Engine:
Exclusive access: Enabled
Integer mode: Enabled
Preferred device:
Jabra MOVE v2.5.0
Model UID:ffff 0
UID:74-5c-4b-2a-a4-2d:output
Active Sample Rate: 96kHz
Hog Mode is off
Bridge settings:
Sample rate limitation: none
Sample rate switching latency: none
Limit bitdepth to 24bit: OFF
Mute during sample rate change: OFF
Selected device:
Local audio device
ID 0x5d External Headphones Manufacturer:Apple Inc.
Model UID:Codec Output UID:BuiltInHeadphoneOutputDevice
4 available sample rates up to 96000Hz
44100
48000
88200
96000
Audio buffer frame size : 29 to 4096 frames
Current I/O buffer frame size : 512
Volume Control
Physical: Yes
Virtual: Yes
MQA capability
Auto-detect MQA devices: No
Not a MQA device, user set to not MQA
DSD capability: Unhandled
Device audio channels
Preferred stereo channels L:1 R:2
Channel bitmap: Ox3, layout:
Channel 0 mapped to 0
Channel 1 mapped to 1
Audio channels in use
Number of channels: 2
Use as stereo device only: No
Simple stereo device: Yes
1 output streams:
Number of active channels: 2, in 1 stream(s)
Channel #0 :Stream 0 channel 0
Channel #1 :Stream 0 channel 1
Stream ID 0x5e 2 channels starting at 1
4 virtual formats:
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 96kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 88.2kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 44.1kHz
4 physical formats
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 96kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 88.2kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 48kHz
2 ch Mixable linear PCM Interleaved 32 little endian Signed Float 44.1kHz
Local devices found : 2
Device #0: ID 0x5d External Headphones Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: Codec Output UID: BuiltInHeadphoneOutputDevice
Device #1: ID 0x4b MacBook Pro Speakers Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Model UID: Speaker UID: BuiltInSpeakerDevice
UPnP devices found : 0
Do you have in /Users/Michael/Music/Music all of the tracks and albums from iTunes?
If you don’t have all of your file, can you try to synchronize iTunes media folder?
I did not before. Now I have all my music in the /Users/Michael/Music/Music, including iTunes. Audirvana is doing a lot of synchronize now.
Rearranging the file folders so all music files, including those from the iTunes follder, are in the master folder labeled music. The mutiple instances of most albums hasn’t gone away. I guess as Sump wrote above, this is an unfixable bug. The only real downside is that smart playlist contain al the duplicates as well. I’d recommend Audirvana have a function like Apple Music’s ability to identify duplicate songs so they can be eliminated.
The feature in Music requires you to actively call it up. Its default is to be disabledt. The Music function to do this isn’t perfect. It seems to work on only the title track names. If an artist has a song on an album, and then records it later on a live ablum, Music identifies it as a duplicate. Apparently you can’t filter tthat out, for example, only show duplicates that have the same playing time, or the same ablum name. Just to check, I compared the duplicate tracks identified by Music with the duplicate tracks and albums showed in Audirvana. They are not the same.
This is not a show stopper. Audirana shows I have over 7,000 albums. Maybe I have 2,000 on my computer. But I can live with the result. I may check out Roon and see if it synics it to all my music files and see if it offers me multiple instances of the same albums.
As Rosanna used to say on “Saturday Night Live” “Never mind.” The error, such as it is, is in iTunes, or maybe iMusic. It was making multiple copies of albums, but it was not showing it. Audirava identied all those copys when iTunes would not. Audirava did what it was supported to do.
This is a new topic.
I traded in an old Mac to Apple and purchased a new one. I forgot to deactivate the license for Audirvana on the old computer. When you turn in a Mac to Apple they wipe the computer of everything. I can promise that that installation of Audirvana will never be used again.
But I’m stuck as I can’t load Audirvana on my new Mac. My license is:
Help!
Mike Davis
… this is a public forum … delete your license code or any one could use it …
Thanks. I didn’t see to send a private message.
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