sterling1
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Too bad, I think the Amarra folks will want to get their stuff to work on PC's too. After all, it's a huge market. I guess I'll keep on using MediaMonkey, as well as iTunes.
Amarra - anyone using it?
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One reason I got a MAC this time was Amarra.
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I'm pretty sure I read that they have no plans for the PC. The current player is built on a sound engine they've been working on for over 20 years on the Mac platform. Originally developed for professional studios.
Saw in another forum they said to just email them with any bugs. I sent off an email with my list. For the most part, just playing tracks directly from iTunes is working. Sometimes get weird glitch at beginning of track where it plays for a split second and then really starts track. Haven't done much other testing.
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Well, I suppose I may not update until they have a 2.11 release for bug fixes - I'm happy with 2.01 MINI right now on my Macbook Pro.
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A few months back, I got tired of waiting for a never ending stable release of Amarra, and almost gave up on software players... That untill I tried Pure Music, which works like a charm for me (despite some very minor bugs), integrates seamlessly with iTunes and offer a fantastic sound (full, rich, liquid, flowing, excellent sounsdtage and imaging). I just don't understand why people are still sticking with Amarra, despite all the major bugs reported and instability. It just takes you out of enjoying the music. At least, this has been my experience with the Amarra mini demo, and it doesn't seem things have changed a lot...
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Is there anything out there like Amarra which will work with iTunes loaded on a PC? All I want to do is get FLAC files on board. I don't want to buy a Mac, since I'm pleased with my new Dell Inspiron 14.
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For whatever reason, I haven't liked the sound of Pure Music. I've tried it several times. Ayrewave was the only other player I liked better than Amarra but didn't have seamless integration. Now I think Amarra's sound is at least on par. Might try Pure Music again because isn't there a memory mode too?
I do keep finding more and more bugs with Amarra. It really is surprising how buggy this thing is. If I could get Pure Music to sound just as good, I'd jump ship. I just don't see Amarra ever ironing out all these bugs unless they hire some new programmers. Seems some of same bugs continue from release to release. With AyreWave, bugs are being fixed within weeks and it's only one guy working on it.
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I guess I am lucky, I didn't upgrade this time to the new version but I have no bugs that I see. I have gapless if I don't us itunes, and the only time I have any bug is maybe once or twice a month, if I let it sit for a while or sleep the computer it may need to be closed and restarted but that's it.
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Still think you need to give the upgrade a try just for cache mode. Just creates a liquidity smooth sound. This is about the only thing I've been testing and won't use it without this setting. You can always go back to old version but curious if other's are as impressed with cache mode as I am.
For Ayrewave, I've always had memory mode enabled, so I don't know how it sounds without. And Pure Music I've never tried with it on, so that could be why I wasn't impressed. I guess if these players are all about improving timing, memory mode improves this enough where it's audibly noticeable.
You can transcode the FLAC files to ALAC (Apple Lossless) without quality loss. Many programs can do this. Then you can import them into iTunes.
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Right now, I'm just converting FLAC to wav 24/96 for iTunes, and I also burn to DVD data disc. Perhaps, one day I'll get a BD universal player which will play these DVD-Audio discs, too.
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Are the FLAC 24/96? Not sure the advantage if not. Also, I remember WAV files not storing meta data vs AIFF does if really want to use uncompressed formats. Don't really see the problem with ALAC, but who knows.
Tried Pure Music with memory mode and doesn't compete with Amarra in my opinion. It's very clean sounding but still sounds digital. Amarra is organic sounding with more texture and layers. Reminds me of the effect of upgrading to a better DAC.
The good thing is Amarra is addressing user feedback and should have a bug fix out very shortly. I can live with the current built and I'm actually glad they put it out even with the bugs. They should have probably released it as a user beta though. Kind of looks bad from a finished product standpoint.
The good thing is Amarra is addressing user feedback and should have a bug fix out very shortly. I can live with the current built and I'm actually glad they put it out even with the bugs. They should have probably released it as a user beta though. Kind of looks bad from a finished product standpoint.
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Currawong, actually even with the Sparrow A 8741, Amarra 2.1 sounds much better than Pure Music and Amarra Mini, which both sound better than Amarra Junior, at least on my JH13s.
Well Amarra 2.1.1 just came out and so far so good. I haven't experienced any bugs yet. I can pause and start, no stuttering, albums with weird characters play. I still need to test the playlist features and direct load from finder but probably won't use them too much anyway. Well playlist can be used for gapless albums, so that's important.
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