Hello guys! I wanted to open this thread in "Computer Audio",
but I read "Help" threads must open here, so, this is my "help me" matter:
I have used Roon and Tidal for a long time, but after a lot of changes in my set-up,
I recently decided to turn to just Apple Music. Why?
For a lot of reasons, and most of all, at the time I seek simplicity in everything
and that goes also with my headphone system too.
I use as a source a MacBook Air M2, with SONOMA 14.4.1,
connected through USB to my beloved Chord Hugo TT2.
So, the chain is Apple Music ----> MacBook Air USB output ----> input USB Chord Hugo TT2.
Everything plays excellent, except one thing:
The sampling rate of every playing file is not automatically changing,
so I have to open Audio Midi and change the sampling rate for files with 96khz, 192khz etc.
Most of my playing files are being streamed directly from Apple Music, and plus these,
I also have imported a lot of AIFF high sample recordings of my own into the Music Library.
In an effort to avoid this annoying sample rate changing, I downloaded Audirvana.
I have used Audirvana and Pure Music some years ago, with Pure Music to be more balanced sound in my ears.
At this time, Pure Music has been left behind and Audirvana seems to be a more modern option.
Indeed I was impressed with the new interface and the features.
Automatic rate changing, and re-sampling with 2 great codes, everything fine.
What's the problem?
When synchronizing Audirvana with my Apple Music Library, only my 100 AIFF songs were recognized.
From 10.000 songs embedded in library, not even one was recognized by Audirvana.
And a pop-up window explains: "Not songs files, or DRM protected files recognized etc."
Contacted Audirvana guys, they say "download the songs" and Audirvana will recognize them.
I download a batch to try it, but had no luck. Same result.
So, I search into Music Library folders to see what's happening,
and to my surprise, I see all the downloads from Apple are not AIFF files any more.
Not ALAC, not anything. They have an extension .movpkg
.movpkg ???
It seems Apple has put severe protection to the Music Library.
So, even when I download the files (and not only stream) Audirvana cannot play them.
Is there anyone here mates, that has faced the same situation?
Audirvana to play Apple Music?
Does anybody knows what is happening with these extensions?
Has somebody found any work around to this matter?
Any help is welcome, any knowledge that you can offer would be very helpful to me.
Thank you all mates!!!
but I read "Help" threads must open here, so, this is my "help me" matter:
I have used Roon and Tidal for a long time, but after a lot of changes in my set-up,
I recently decided to turn to just Apple Music. Why?
For a lot of reasons, and most of all, at the time I seek simplicity in everything
and that goes also with my headphone system too.
I use as a source a MacBook Air M2, with SONOMA 14.4.1,
connected through USB to my beloved Chord Hugo TT2.
So, the chain is Apple Music ----> MacBook Air USB output ----> input USB Chord Hugo TT2.
Everything plays excellent, except one thing:
The sampling rate of every playing file is not automatically changing,
so I have to open Audio Midi and change the sampling rate for files with 96khz, 192khz etc.
Most of my playing files are being streamed directly from Apple Music, and plus these,
I also have imported a lot of AIFF high sample recordings of my own into the Music Library.
In an effort to avoid this annoying sample rate changing, I downloaded Audirvana.
I have used Audirvana and Pure Music some years ago, with Pure Music to be more balanced sound in my ears.
At this time, Pure Music has been left behind and Audirvana seems to be a more modern option.
Indeed I was impressed with the new interface and the features.
Automatic rate changing, and re-sampling with 2 great codes, everything fine.
What's the problem?
When synchronizing Audirvana with my Apple Music Library, only my 100 AIFF songs were recognized.
From 10.000 songs embedded in library, not even one was recognized by Audirvana.
And a pop-up window explains: "Not songs files, or DRM protected files recognized etc."
Contacted Audirvana guys, they say "download the songs" and Audirvana will recognize them.
I download a batch to try it, but had no luck. Same result.
So, I search into Music Library folders to see what's happening,
and to my surprise, I see all the downloads from Apple are not AIFF files any more.
Not ALAC, not anything. They have an extension .movpkg
.movpkg ???
It seems Apple has put severe protection to the Music Library.
So, even when I download the files (and not only stream) Audirvana cannot play them.
Is there anyone here mates, that has faced the same situation?
Audirvana to play Apple Music?
Does anybody knows what is happening with these extensions?
Has somebody found any work around to this matter?
Any help is welcome, any knowledge that you can offer would be very helpful to me.
Thank you all mates!!!