I haven't found any troubleshooting answers. There is no contact information on their website. What kind of company would not provide contact information to their customers??? What kind of people are these? The best I have heard on my Mac Air. Great together with the Dragonfly DAC! This is a great application if you want to hear your music in the best possible quality quality. I tried several others, but this one is the best and it also could stream your music to UPnP-devices, like the ultraRendu.
RunHomeSlow Oct 11 If you got ears, you gotta listen! If you want to use Audio Units with this, which is why I bought it many years ago and it ran flawlessly you can forget about it. It simply doesn't work with AU engaged. No sound. I figured it was a bug they'd sort out so I left it over a year before updating and they haven't fixed it. Check their support forum and you'll see its the same with everyone. Worst customer response I've come across in a long time.
To know that their product fails in one vital area and just leave it broken for years when it's a unique selling point. I'm speechless.
Now I'll spend all day tomorrow trying to go back to a 2 year old version that worked. DragonMaster Sep 8 Got it and love it! I have over 14, albums onboard and it handles them all quickly and accurately. My only issue is that you cannot access your Mac's volume control when this app is running. Aside fro that I find it to be a remarkable audio app! Oh yes, it works on Catalina with no issues at all.
RunHomeSlow Sep 8 Yes most helpful version comment is for 2. I own the Plus version and downloaded the latest upon release. I use it with a high end studio quality audio interface and I possess a lot of Audio Unit plugins.
This was never a problem for the old version, but now it simply won't play a single track. I have contacted support whose sole advice was to trash all preferences and download the app again. Same thing, no sound.
Evgin Dec 10 Rikyman Mar 3 No other App for audio in my system can accomplish the quality Audirvana can whit my DAC, the interface is not beautiful but the sound is fantastic. Wie letztes Jahrhundert.
Skooks57 Jan 12 I have the "Plus" version and just updated to 3. It produces good sound, but it does not load my music library properly.
There are some albums showing multiple times but with only one song in each showing. I have tried to fix this problem, but with no success! I use the pro version for some years now. Excellent sound, but, and this is the bad point, it's very often not working. This means it crashes, does not want to update the music library or the library disappears without notice. For a payed app - and not cheap - just not the way one could recomend it.
The ability to use Audio Unit plugins lift this into true professional quality. Just the best music software for Mac. Superb sound quality, easy use and with the latest version I can push via UpNP to my active speakers and control everything from the iPhone app. Regular updates and good support too.
Forget Roon, Jriver etc and get this app.. M85 Apr 6 Of the money investd over the years in audio gear, this has been the best value, maturing as has my appreciaion of fine detail. Use a dac and izotope settings.
Absolutely awesome app. Maclover Feb 25 Audirvana is.. Audirvana unfortunately, apart for being much faster as a standalone, is a badly thought out eyesore please hire some good UI devs, everything's ugly about this app, starting with its cheesy logotype , the search is crappy.. I have yet to find a real audiophile solution..
Big Johnson Dec 25 It often fails to find tracks that are in its own database. I decided it would sound better in Audirvarna, so I switched to it and typed "beauty" in the box. Then I typed "tubes," and two albums and eleven tracks were found. What a POS!
And I do prefer the sound of Audivarna over iTunes played through Hear to my desktop speakers. Sound quality is quite good, but the interface is a horrible buggy mess. It is loaded with inexplicable behaviour and major features that just don't work. The UI lacks basic functionality present in even the most basic Mac applications. The app relies heavily on metadata, but its handling of tags is abysmal.
Tags that work perfectly in every other application and tag reader refuse to work in Audirvana. The only good parts of the application are the parts written by Izotope, rather than the developer himself. If this was open-source software, accurately described as alpha status, it would be worth a look. I've been a user for several years now and I've had time to compare it to some of the other players out there and I have come to like this one the most.
That and its ever-present sound quality has kept me aboard. Getting Audirvana, albeit in its very humble non-Plus form back then, coincided with my desire to get the most out of my growing digital library that included HD formats. Once it went from only-iTunes-integrated-mode to a standalone-with-growing-pains, that's when I knew it might be something I could use in the long run.
The breaking of Direct Mode is a minor inconvenience in Sierra but I do hope it gets resolved soon. We still have Integer Mode and Exclusive Mode. I run it with the iZotope64 converter and the Nyquist cutoff set to 2,00 and it makes for thrilling listening sessions, especially with something like the Grado RS1. Lowering the Nyquist to 1,00 does make for a less-fatiguing session with those kinds of phones.
I keep it pegged at 2,00 and just switch to the Senns when my ears get tired. I hope they continue to mature this product. I think it's one of the best high-res players on the market. Wgscott Apr 17 Absolutely outstanding, and Tidal integration just made it even better. The customization settings, which include AU plugins including all of those available through OS X, like various equalizers , up-sampling, volume dithering, ability to play DSD, ability to use Dirac room correction's AU plugin, an outstanding GUI available in stand-alone mode, the ability to run it in "iTunes integrated mode" in which the player uses iTunes as a GUI, and most of all, the sound quality, make this well worth every penny.
But the playback has that distinctive iTunes metallic bite, just twice as loud as iTunes. Clementine is free, has more features, and sports the ability to cut those mids. This software keeps on getting better and better. Huge speed increase in Version 2. The Soundquality is top notch! Anyone know of video playback software that incorporates some or all of the audio playback-enhancing features offered by Audirvana?
I rarely use my Mac for prolonged audio listening sessions, but would appreciate some audio improvements when watching, eg. VLC, for example, offers nothing along these lines. Lvdoc Sep 17 I can't find any place on your site to email you. Did iTunes Everything was working fine until I updated to the new iTunes today. In direct mode, I can't get a clear signal to come through. It does work okay in Exclusive Access Mode, but could you please look into this?
M85 Sep 12 I have an external DAC in a pretty nice audio system worth a few grand in a total , but even listening through headphones directly into a Mac, the sound benefits are clearly evident - once you've developed a sense of what you're listening to.
The sound which has taken a few leaps even further higher in the recent releases , the Audirvana remote, the playlist management This software is just awesome. You won't hear it's full potential in iTunes integrated mode. I love it. Mikael-B Jun 22 Until someone posts a verifiable audio nullification test I remain unimpressed with all of these apps purporting to "a better sound".
I am indeed impressed with my audio interface and paid a lot of money for that. I'm not using iTunes for playback and paid for my playback application not this one. IMHO, bits are bits and "better sound" as far as application is concerned is just another reference for distortion you prefer.
Unless you can prove other apps are inferior in moving bits to your audio interface this "better sound" is just distortion or an illusion on your part. Only 4 stars because no drag and drop. This feature was removed from the current version by some genius So for the player to not be frustrating, and to use a remote, it must be used with iTunes. The sound quality is 5 stars. Much better than buggy Amarra which crashes, skips, or just goes silent.
Once drag and drop is implemented back into the UI, this app will be back up to 5 stars. Two years ago Sheagirl alerted Macupdate that the price shown here was not the correct one. Please macupdate, could you correct the price on this page? Wts Mar 2 This is my preliminary comments : I just discovered this fantastic app that has really improved my sound experience even thru my head set. My personal beef about the way this app would be that when i select iTunes integration it opens up iTunes.
And then i have iTunes running in the back ground. All my iTunes files are in a iTunes folder just play that folder!!!! I note that although the sound file being played i named in the heading but it does not highlight that file in the playlist.
Lvdoc Dec 10 I have to add my two cents. I don't know if I read this definition here or elsewhere. If it was here, my apologies. I'm not trying to steal your thunder! An audiophile listens to his sound system with music. I had initially purchased Fidelia. It's a very good program, and I prefer the interface to Audirvana.
I also think it sounds better than iTunes. However, for a time, I was having trouble with it. It was fine; turns out I had a bad file that was messing with it. But during that time, I went looking for alternatives and gave Audirvana a try. I didn't know you could get it for a mac. It's been years since I used Audirvana or a mac, but if Foobar was available at the time, I would never have purchased Audirvana.
I'd buy more music instead. Maybe it has evolved into something more vsuable since then. Meatface , Jun 7, There are many add on components for Foobar I looked at Audirvana.
It looks nice! It covers many file types. I don't forsee any audible benefit over foobar. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Location: Katy, TX.
Foobar is great if you want a player but it's not great for searching through files. It's okay, but not great. I personally like JRiver which handles all media not just music. It handles streaming and it's constantly being updated based on feedback from their forums. Also, JRiver doesn't restrict you from installing the software on multiple devices that you own. JRiver does check to make sure you aren't sharing you licence by limiting the installations during a 1 year period, but, it's pretty easy to reset the installation limit if you run into the situation where you would ever need to go over that limit, like needing to do clean installs with operating systems.
Kal Rubinson and Boltman like this. One mistake I made with Foorbar was thinking when I "copied" files over to it, the copied files were stored in a Foobar folder. I lost the first HD Track downloads I did.
Location: Sunshine State. Audirvana is my favorite software player and I consider it one of the best. To me, it sounds much better than Foobar and it is much more easier to use.
With the latest upgrades the GUI looks great. Audirvana's sound quality is at the same level as Roon which is as good as it gets today. Roon surely has the advantage in terms of database organization but in terms of sound quality they are very close.
I don't think that Audirvana is expensive but even if it was, it would be worth every penny. Cast Iron Shore likes this. Location: USA. The key here is that Foobar2k on Mac is completely different from its Windows incarnation based on the mobile app version iirc , and is much more barebones.
I'd say Foobar on Windows easily surpasses Audirvana in terms of feature count, but on Mac it's completely missing library support which is a major disadvantage if you want to search your music or have files spread across multiple drives.
