So Audirvana Studio was released yesterday evening. I’ve only had so much time to play around with it, but it seems its spiffy new UI looks as good as it isn’t ready for prime time.
It’s got better integration of your local library with your streaming service of choice and a bunch of cool features, such as a HD analyzer that checks if tracks actually have content past 16bit and/or 22khz (which is the bandwidth for 44.1khz recordings.)
BUT the UI also has bugs and missing functionality that I and several other users reported on the Audirvana community forums. Font is very small with no option to increase its size;no sorting options for Tidal artists (turns out this is actually possible, albeit counterintuitively); no playlists on the left sidebar (you can still access your playlists but it's not as immediately obvious as it was in Audirvana 3.5)… Needs some polishing.
Kernel Streaming on Windows sounds really good but I can’t play any of my files that are higher than 16/44 with it (I can with WASAPI; already reported.)
It’s got better integration of your local library with your streaming service of choice and a bunch of cool features, such as a HD analyzer that checks if tracks actually have content past 16bit and/or 22khz (which is the bandwidth for 44.1khz recordings.)
BUT the UI also has bugs and missing functionality that I and several other users reported on the Audirvana community forums. Font is very small with no option to increase its size;
Kernel Streaming on Windows sounds really good but I can’t play any of my files that are higher than 16/44 with it (I can with WASAPI; already reported.)
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