I’m using Audirvana Origin on my M4 Mac Mini running Sequoia 15.4.1 and just installed the Remote App on my iPad Pro.
Accessing track ratings on my desktop is possible, but certainly much less convenient than if it was displayed next to the favorites icon in the Paying Now display.
However, i’ve bern unable to find any way at all to access the track ratings in the Remote App.
I have more than 23,000 songs all ripped from CDs on my local drive and every single one has a rating. i’ve built dozens of playlists in Apple Music based on those song ratings along with the Last Played field and genre field.
The transition from Apple Music to Audirvana has been mostly smooth with the sole exception of accessing the rating of each track.
It’s been more than a week and not a single reply. I can only assume that my view that Audirvana does not allow access to ratings in the remote app is correct, and that it poorly implements access to ratings in the desktop app.
These are deal breakers for me. I’m not moving from Apple Music to a less capable program that will not allow me to rate songs and use those ratings while I am listening to build and play playlists. I’m ending my trial without purchasing Audirvana Origin.
Oh, BTW, JRiver Media Center does allow complete access in desktop and remote app to all my ratings and I can build even more powerful playlists in it than I can with Apple Music. It seems that Audirvana is a step down for me from Apple Music, while JRiver is a step up.
Is sound-quality your primary concern or library management? If you cannot discern the difference between Apple Music, JRiver and Audirvāna in quality of sound and sound potentials of up-sampling and plug-in architecture… Then from the point of view of us that use Audirvāna for its quality of sound output, you might just as well stay with Apple Music or JRiver if you do not perceive or appreciate the difference in playback quality… Maybe Roon will be your dream player…
JRiver has better sound quality than Apple Music. Sound quality is a great thing, but is of absolutely no value if I cannot make use of my ratings, to update and change ratings and build playlists using those ratings. Audirvana should have each song’s rating displaying (and editable) where the favorite icon is on the desktop player and the same for the remote app. I want the best sound quality I can possibly get as long as I can manipulate and change my ratings and use those ratings to set up playlists. Audirvana seems to think that sound quality and song ratings are two mutually exclusive things, which is absurd. There is no reason not to have both. I actually have a pretty good sound system with my M4 Mac Mini sending music directly to my Schiit Bifrost 2/64 which is connected to my Asgard 3 headphone amplifier feeding Focal Clear headphones.
Is it?.. Where do you think the triviality of song-ratings sits on the hierarchy of the player design intentions for the design team? The success of Audirvāna does not hinge on such things… It is not those sorts of trivialities that draws audiophiles to Audirvāna, especially when folks get what they need from Apple Music, etc, etc… What is the impetus that draws them to Audirvāna when there are alternatives that suit those types conveniences you desire?
Why can you not use the Favorites tag while listening and then subsequently use meta-data to create a ratings hierarchy in the playlists?
Are you seriously asking me why i can’t go from rating each song between 1 and 5 stars to instead using a simple checkmark of like/not-like?
I suppose i could flip that question right back at you, However this is not at all about whether Audirvana allows each song to be rated between 1 and 5 stars. It clearly does. The question is, “Why does Audirvana not allow access to rating songs in the desktop player or in the remote app?” The meta data exists. It can be used to build smart playlists. You just can’t access the ratings from the desktop player or the remote app. This is a shortcoming, and for my use, it’s a deal breaker.
I see a routine that can accomplish this through a real-time tagging tracks as a Favorite and subsequently importing those into a playlist where the meta-data rating stars are available and then the tracks can be filtered/sorted as desired, you are creating playlists anyway…
The deal breaker for you is of no consequence for folks like me that don’t care about rating tracks… I don’t know where the value of track ratings fits in the demographical hierarchy of Audirvāna users, however, it appears from the responses to your post, that not a lot of folks find this of high value in the context of their Audirvāna experience.
No… that is your construct… The issue is really about the value of the feature in the overarching experience for Audirvāna users… If it is such an important aspect of the general use scenario, we would see more response in agreement with the value of this feature… Pretty simple… Either it is, or it isn’t of great value for the larger demographic of Audirvāna users… Time will tell… and apparently some are not willing to work around this until there comes a rationale for this attribute to be implemented, which speaks to where the value of playback sound-quality sits on their priority list.
I offered a potential workaround and answered the myopic and disparaging assertion… I don’t see your insights regarding the issue the OP is commenting on. Do you have an opinion on the value of the feature? Do you find the issue of consequence to your playback experience?
