Any plan to upgrade audirvana interface of the player on website / app / mobile etc.? Roon’s interface design is much better!
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When I don’t know but @Antoine has mentioned that this is a wish from the side of the Audirvāna team as well.
Until then I enjoy the quality of the sound which in my set up beats Roon.
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Roon’s UI/player is bloated trying to be everything for everybody… This is why you will read countless remarks from former Roon users about how much better Audirvāna sounds in comparison…
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Totally agree that Roon is bloated compared to Audirvana. The Roon “now playing” UI is extremely slick.
One low-hanging-fruit upgrade for Audirvana might be incorporating the AllMusic artist information (visible when browsing an artist) and the AllMusic album information into the mini-player.
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Maybe the solution is to press the Roon team to improve the output sound-quality of their software, rather than adding bloat to Audirvāna… 
Apparently it takes something like the Taiko Extreme server or Olympus servers to pull the best from Roon…
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Back in the day, I spent a month evaluating Roon and Audirvana. One of the most frustrating things I encountered: Roon can be downright recalcitrant about ‘helping’ with metadata. My entire library is tagged exactly how I want … but the best you can do is >suggest< that Roon favor local metadata … in many many cases it insisted on using its own metadata pulled from the cloud.
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Happy Easter!
I guess different folks have different preferences. Roon operates on more of what I’d describe as a “search” interface, displaying what you might find with a web search of a recording or artist. Audirvana uses a simple alphabetical sort, according to sort criteria you select (though it also has a search function).
I personally have my local stuff alphabetically sorted the way I want, and for my streaming service I can use the search function, so Audirvana is set up nicely for me. But perhaps the Audirvana folks can find some way to please both of us. 
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I see the salient point being how to insure/preserve the quality of sound we have come to expect from Audirvāna on bare minimum computer platforms/configurations… Adding computational overhead is not the way to go, unless the computer platform can support the overhead… 
… What is plainly evident in the case of Roon performance, something like a Taiko server is required to get the best sound-quality from the bloated Roon architecture.
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One thing (I hope) we all agree on: getting more paying customers on Audirvana is a good thing for everyone.
Adding friendly wrinkles to the UI is potentially a win-win, and such mods do not involve the audio playback chain. Expanding the methods of music discovery as @Jud illustrates is one such possibility. Enriching the UI to make the existing AllMusic interface more useful is another.
Re-stating for clarity: not every UI enhancement very appeals to everyone, but if they expand the user base that is a great thing.
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Try this discovery engine…
Do not the streaming music services provide enough discovery potentials? 
There is no ‘free-lunch’ in adding more bloat to Audirvāna.
Sound-quality has expanded the base and will continue to expand the base…
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How do you justify this assertion?
My screenshot seems to tell it all
While music discovery is fascinating & useful, neither @Jud or I were suggesting enhancing Audirvana along those lines … both of us were referring to organizing one’s own local music library.
I have played with LivePlasma! I especially like the way it presents results in such a visual fashion. Here’s a totally different experiment to try:
- cut-and-paste a list of all the artists in your library into ChatGPT (or Gemini, Claude, etcetera)
- then ask it questions on specific artists in your list
- you can qualify your queries any way you like: show me aditional artists, artists who released a new album in the past year, whatever comes to mind
- the difference here is ChatGPT will answer based on your entire library, not one artist at a time, so the “new ideas” will be more relevant
Give it a whirl!
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You won’t find me feeding the monster… 
Apparently you did not see my response to your post where I found ‘The New Pornographers’ in Live Plasma
You responded to my post to OffRode, asking him to justify the assertion he posted…
No I replied to you, as you can see in my response. At any rate, it doesn’t work for me. What else can I say.
Perhaps Audirvana=Ferrari and Roon=Rolls.
One is stripped down and high performance, the other luxury with all the bells and whistles.
I did give Roon a good tryout, but its UI just wasn’t for me. I recognize many, perhaps most, people feel differently.
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