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In Reply to: RE: Wondering whether to ditch iTunes and use the Audirvana front end posted by andy evans on December 20, 2016 at 14:06:09
as a former user of A, you have the right to upgrade to the last version for less money than new users; ask Damien for any doubts, he will be responsive and kind, as always... ;)
since you desativated iTunes on the A preferences, it should have no effect at all on your A playing; make sure you configurated everything else OK; also, remember that the tracks you play, go to the computer RAM before playing
i've got a huge iTunes library, and are not planning at all to import it to A; iTunes has a much easier library manager
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i've got a huge iTunes library, and are not planning at all to import it to A; iTunes has a much easier library managerAgree. I love the way AV+ sounds and I hear no difference using it in "Integrated Mode" with iTunes managing my library vs letting AV+ do it. There shouldn't be any audible difference because either way, AV+ is bypassing Apple's CoreAudio.
I had AV+ many years ago and when they first came out with their own library management, it was horrible. It is much improved now, and I'm still seeing bug fixes in recent releases, but I still prefer iTunes for managing my library and letting AV+ handle the audio. I'm on AV+ 2.6.2 which I believe is the latest release.
I run mostly Roon these days but still fire up AV+.
Edits: 12/21/16
I agree. BUT. . . I've done a lot of "manual overrides" to the metadata of my music files, and, every so often, an upgrade to iTunes or the Mac OS itself will result in the loss of many of these overrides. It's as if the system and/or iTunes has some kind of distant memory of the old (unedited) metadata, and certain upgrades will cause the metadata to revert back to its old (unedited) form. I'm still digging out from the latest iTunes upgrade (where iTunes can no longer find my files on certain albums and I have to lead it by the hand to show where they are), and it's getting VERY frustrating. :-(
Just in the last couple of days, Bloomberg (I think) had an article about how the Mac has become the ugly step-sister over at Apple, with some engineers being pulled off Mac projects to work on iPhone projects, etc., and other engineers resigning and moving to other companies because they see that Apple no longer seems excited about investing their money in a platform which now brings in only about 10% of their profits. Very sad for those of us with Mac histories going back to the mid-80's and who stuck with Apple even during the darkest days of the 90's.
I haven't noticed the loss of manually input metadata in my iTunes library but I have to admit that I haven't used iTunes a lot since playing with Roon. The cool thing with Roon was that it discovered my iTunes library with no user intervention at all and built it's own database to manage. I believe it also pulls in a lot of metadata from it's own service over the internet. For example, missing album art in my iTunes library magically appears in Roon. ;-)
I read a recent stat that mostly agrees with what you said about Mac revenue being fairly small in the grand scheme of things for Apple, but I also read (and have a chart somewhere) that shows MacBook Pro sales far exceeding other laptops in the past few quarters. But, laptop sales are probably a fraction of what we see for smartphones and tablets these days across the board.
I'm happy with my 13" 2012 MacBook Pro. My wife has a newer 2015. We see no reason to upgrade at the moment as they both work perfectly, like the day we bought them.
My son had a Macbook which went wrong 4 times. Each time he had to wait in a queue for hours to see somebody at an Apple store. Despite all this it was never replaced. That's just wretched. The store staff didn't give a damn.
On the other hand, whenever I've had technical problems the geeks at Apple have been great. But that's undoubtedly a couples of levels up in intellect and culture from store staff. Still - the edict "don't replace" clearly comes from the top.
That may be a UK thing, I don't really know.If one requires technical service at an Apple store, setting up an appointment online is recommended and very easy to do. When you arrive at the store you check-in and either walk right up or wait just a few minutes for a tech. Of course, the stores are always packed with people especially around the holidays. Microsoft launched their own store in the local shopping mall just upstairs and across from the Apple Store. They're never busy so I have to assume their service is better. ;-)
A friend bought a MacBook Pro laptop last year. The bluetooth on it was DOA when he received it. He took it back to the store, a tech looked at it, and they replaced it on the spot. It took him about 10 minutes. Of course that was a brand new unit under warranty. I'm not sure how HP, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, Samsung would have handled it. They don't have local stores that I am aware of.
Edits: 12/23/16
The old one gave up the ghost after 6 years and 2 months. (I was hoping to wait until the new iMacs came out, but c'est la vie!) The configuration of the new one is shown below.
p.s.: Concerning album covers, I like to disassemble some of my CD's back into their LP components using the LP album covers when I rip the CD's to iTunes. The LP covers often differ significantly from the CD booklet covers when the same albums are reissued. Somehow, I think iTunes doesn't like it when I do this.
Wow! That's the top of the line configuration.
I've been wanting a 21" iMac with 4K display for my office but I just use my 2012 laptop with an outboard HP monitor.
Both USB ports are on their last legs, only one is usable for music now plus the battery is about dead with about 1 hour run time on a charge.
It's the low end unit with only 4 GB memory with 128 SSD (near full) so I certainly deserve and upgrade.
That said, it's still working and sounds SO much better when streaming QOBUZ than streaming using the SONOS connect into the same Audio-GD DAC/Headphone amp.
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