- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER HOW TO#
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER FULL#
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER PORTABLE#
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER SOFTWARE#
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER SOFTWARE#
Till then I am open to other software and file formats.įeb. I hope Apple gets the hint – clean up iTunes – give me something that works and maybe I will use it. I included a couple of links if you are interested along with an article on replacing iTunes and high definition music. VOX also runs on Apple CarPlay so it looks like this solution will work for everything – easy to use, simple clean interface and playlists that don’t self destruct. I transfer my Audirvana music library directly to my phone as this is comprised of directories (either by artist or album) with associated audio files in them (ok that still takes iTunes but that just a file copy) but from there it goes directly to VOX which so far has played perfectly. This then brings me back to the home system – the source of the music. So that brings us to VOX as a good music player for IOS and it handles all of my music formats except MQA (which I simply convert to FLAC).
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER HOW TO#
How to avoid IOS Apple Music which yet again had a nervous breakdown and duplicated every track – playing each track twice in a row? And then theres the dyslexic teeni-bobber user interface – best suited to ‘songs’ and keep keep an album (or multi album together). A Mac Air laptop hosts the files and software (Audirvana) and it is connected via a USB cable to a NAIM DAC (digital to analog converter) which is then connected to a top of the line NAIM Amp and finally Bowers and Wilkins 802 Dimond speakers. Audirvana supports all common music file formats, as well as high definition listless formats (FLAC, DSD, ACC, ACCL and the greatly disputed MQA which we love). At least all of our music is in one place, consistent, uncorrupted, has consistent album covers, accessible throughout the house with a IOS remote and has consistent playlists that are mostly stable (although we have had playlists bumps along the way). All new music has been purchased at higher quality levels and on a good stereo you can hear the improvement in sound quality over various compressed MP3 type file formats. We ripped (copied) our music from CD’s at CD quality and have never looked back – even fixing the album covers that iTunes endlessly lost or mangled.
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER PORTABLE#
Let me start at the beginning with our home system and the music library, read next paragraph to skip to portable music:Ī few years ago iTunes messed up our home music library for the 3rd time, so we switched to Audirvana (both Mac and Windows) which works well enough and sounds great, much better than iTunes because it supports higher resolution audio file formats. It looks like it may finally be the end of iTunes for me – that shamble of Apple bloatware – the great mangler of files and playlists. It is a Non-MQA DAC and can only play MQA files either undecoded ( without audirvana in this case the files behave like ordinary 16/44 or 16/48 files) or it plays the files at 96 kHz after core decoding by Audirvana or Tidal Desktop App. In your case the Chord Mojo is neither a MQA decoder nor a MQA renderer.
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 TIDAL 3 MONTHS EXISTING TIDAL USER FULL#
In this case Audirvana Plus does the core decoding to 96kHz and the MQA renderer will continue the docoding to its full original sampling rate. For a complete and full decoding of MQA files with original sampling rates higher than 96 kHz, you need either a MQA certified hardware decoder DAC like Meridian Explorer2, Mytek Brooklyn, the Onkyo an Pioneer HighRes mobile players, etc (in this case Audirvana could even pass through the MQA files without any software decoding), or you need a combination of a core decoder like Audirvana Plus in combination with a socalled MQA renderer like the Audioquest Dragonfly. MQA software decoders like Audirvana Plus or the TIDAL desktop App for Win/Mac are socalled MQA core decoders and their decoding is limited to 96kHz. Here is an explanation that I have compiled from comments posted in this Youtube video. I was wondering why my MQA encoded FLAC files play at 24/88.2 kHz with Audirvana 3.2.10.