Bluesound Replacement Step 1 - Loading Audirvana

[prime minister]

New computer in place. Loaded Audirvana. No issues. Very quick and smooth.
Copied music from USB drive I had been using, back to new Mac.
Pointed Audirvana to the subdirectory containing the music. Restarted Audirvana, came back a few minutes later and everything was set up. Nice clean interface. Some music missing cover art, but that was missing before too. Haven't investigated adding that yet.
Runs like a champ. It really was this easy.

 

[prime minister]

Next thing was adding Tidal. Logged into my Tidal account, and all was there. On the left side of the screen, it added a drop down tab with all of my Tidal playlists, and a second tab titled Connected, with direct Tidal access. It lists New, Rising, Playlists, Genres and My Music. Each allowing easy one click access.
Piece of cake. Totally easy setup.

 

[prime minister]

Remote app setup on my iPhone.
This will definitely take longer to type then to do. Download app. Open it. Select the device that Audirvana is running on. Once selected, Audirvana on my MacBook gives a 6 digit code. Enter code into iPhone Audirvana app, and you are done.
Immediately Access all music.

Yes, it took much more time to do this then to type it.

 

[prime minister]

Only disappointment so far is that Audirvana doesn't seem to help with finding missing album art. When I've tried, the only option available was to load from the drive. More investigation to be done.

 

[prime minister]

Yes, it has literally been this easy. Audirvana has come a long way!

Next step, setting up the Raspberry Pi.

 

[airdronian]

Only disappointment so far is that Audirvana doesn't seem to help with finding missing album art. When I've tried, the only option available was to load from the drive. More investigation to be done.

Audirvana doesn't go looking for artwork. It does allow you to edit the metadata, but just on an individual track basis. Years ago when I ripped my CD's, I decided that I didn't care about the metadata/artwork (Doh !). When I finally came to my senses I had a collection with little album art at all.

There's apps out there that can update album art, etc much more efficiently than can Audirvana. I used Musicbrainz Picard, which works on OSX and was free. Not the most intuitive app but it seemed to work well once I got the hang of it. There's other options out there too.

 

[Drugolf]

Did you consider using Roon at all?

 

[prime minister]

Did you consider using Roon at all?

I'm actually thinking about loading Roon today. From what I understand, Roon handles my one big Audirvana issue extremely well.

 

[Drugolf]

I'm actually thinking about loading Roon today. From what I understand, Roon handles my one big Audirvana issue extremely well.

Yeah, that's why I wondered.

 

[Try1256]

I'm actually thinking about loading Roon today. From what I understand, Roon handles my one big Audirvana issue extremely well.

I liked Roon but it was just so much more expensive than Audirvana. For the cost difference, I can certainly live with the shortcomings.