2) Sync a compilation album to iPhone.

3) Looking at the Library -> Compilations on iPhone, some of the single albums in MacOS Music app are broken into multiple albums in iOS Music app

What seems to happen is if there are other albums in your library where the Album Artist = the Artist of one or more tracks on the Compilation album then these tracks are put on their own album. You can see this with the "Help" album below. It is one album in the Mac Music but 9 on my iPhone seemingly because I have albums from "Manic Street Preachers", "Massive Attack", "The Stone Roses", "Suede", "O'Connor, Sinead", "Radiohead", "The Charlatans" and "Blur" but not from the other artists on the album.

Is this some sort of "feature"?

I'm tired of swiping up, down, across on an iPad's for Audirvana Remote. I would prefer a mouse driven, keyboard input rather than sub optimal iPad quirky human interface. I like to browse while listening, and the swiping is really starting to annoy, such as half swipe up, or completely swipe up, quick access, swipe down right hand corner, enough!

Can any of the new m series Macbooks install Audirvana Remote?

If not, I can remote Desktop to the Windows machine to change the settings and select music, but would rather use the Audirvana Remote.

I want them all on my phone as mp3s (while maintaining the originals) and obviously want to batch convert as simply as possible.

The path is E: Data > Music > Phil > then a folder for every artist > inside those, folders for every disc by that artist. Questions:

Can you simply feed the "converter" the “Music” folder? The “Phil” folder?

Does the converter extract the individual discs and their files, making this a single-step process? If not, do I have to feed every disc folder into the converter?

Should the conversion take place on the PC or the phone? If it’s the phone, what’s a good app for Android that does this and stores them in a decent library?

Probably sounds like a lot of "How the heck does this actually work?"  🫤  Thanks for your patience.

So I have a hard disc plugged directly into my Auralic Aries. All my music is in a folder called "Zen Trax" on the hard disc. My hard disc is called "iansen music 2024 external ssd". I control the music using Auralic's Lightning DS App.

Previously (ie before my new MacBookAir running Sonoma 14.5):

I was using iTunes on an old MacBookPro.  To add tracks I would just open iTunes on my MacBookPro, ensure in my settings that the music library was pointed to the "Zen Trax" folder on my hard disc, and then import the tracks. 

I could do this either from my laptop with the hard disc connected to the Auralic Aries ie wirelessly (which was quite slow) or by connecting the hard disc directly to my laptop ie wired (which was much faster).

I would have to "refresh" the Auralic Aries App so that it showed the newly imported tracks.

Now (using Apple Music on my new MacBookAir running Sonoma 14.5):

So I connected my hard disc to my MacBookAir, in  Apple Music >> Settings >> Music Media Folder Location I chose /iansen music 2024 external ssd/Zen Trax.  (At least I think I did this!)

I then tried importing the new tracks.

I plugged the hard disc back into Auralic Aries... and hundreds of albums have been split into two.

Looking at my external hard disc I can see there are three folders:

Zen Trax

Automatically Add To Music

Music

There's about 900GB in "Zen Trax" and about 900GB in "Music".  I can see that some albums have some tracks in the "Zen Trax" folder, and others in the "Music" folder, and this splitting of tracks of an album corresponds with how they show up in the Auralic App as two albums. So it's not a metadata issue, but a file location issue. 

 (In the Apple Music App - for those albums where the tracks are split into the two different folders - its not showing as two albums...)

Any suggestions on how to merge the tracks in the two folders?

for years I have been managing my music library with iTunes. A very nice thing was when some day I found that I could even easily manage booklets (as pdf files) within iTunes: Just throw them into the "automatically add to itunes" folder, edit album- and album-artist-name and then the file gets automatically moved into the album folder and the booklet appears in that particular album just below the last track in the main window.

This week  switched to a new Mac with Music.app instead of iTunes. The import of the library went very smooth and reliable, existing booklet files were displayed within the corresponding albums just like before.

But now when I add a new album and add the booklet pdf just like before (including editing meta data), the pdf file still gets moved into the album folder, but within the Music.app window, the booklet file does not move into the album to get enlisted below the album tracks, it just remains on the highest level as if it was an album itself (see attached screeshot).

Of course I checked the correctness of tagging already. Could it be there is something in the settings that I need to change? Any idea how this behaviour could be fixed?

Best regards
Stefan

thanks

It used to show the date above the albums.  Did the setting change?  Thanks in advance.

Apple wants me to update the iOS. to the current.  Im currently. on. macOS. Big Sur.   Should I update the OS?  Im scared too.  It's my main music server.  

Bueller. Bueller. 

M usicguy

A lot of the albums have been split into 2 albums.

It seems random, but it is always one album with track 1 and another album with track 2 - n.

I checked the tracks on the Mac and all the meta data is identical for all 5 tracks (except for the Title) and obviously it is 1 album.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Nicholas

I'm looking for a (hopefully) simple way of steering the output of Apple Music and/or Roon through a delay program before it goes to the DAC. I know Roon already has speaker time delay DSP, but until I'm able to steer Apple Music Atmos streams through Roon, that doesn't help me.

A musician friend told me about MAC plug-in hosts that performers use to process instruments/vocals in real time when rehearsing and playing live. That approach sounds promising but I don't know if Apple Music can be routed through a plug-in host on a MAC. Has anyone tried this for music streaming playback? Is there another way to add delay between Apple Music and DAC?

Thanks.

Russ

thanks

if I play directly from my mac or iPhone plays are counted. thanks

1. The overall Sound Quality while adequate for exploration of new music is not up to audiophile standards

2. The culprit is as usual the Windows Mixer. DAC drivers appear as under "Speaker .. 'your DAC ASIO driver name'"

And the sound is generally routed through the Windows Audio Device.

3. Playback of Apple Music tracks suffer from bloat in voices and instruments. This is in contrast to playback of local files using my Hqplayer at 44.1 khz PCM w/o upsampling.

4. With recommendations of @bogi under the Hqplayer forum, I downloaded this SW. Hificable and ASIO bridge :-

https://shop.vb-audio.com/en/win-apps/19-hifi-cable-asio-bridge.html

5. The 64bit version runs smoothly under Windows 11. U can see it as another driver under Sound settings ( I guess the Windows Mixer is still in there🥴)

6. The trial with this software was straight forward - once u go to all settings undet your DAC's ASIO panel to match the sample rate and buffer size to the settings under the ASIO bridge latency pull down menu 

And also the sample rate setting under Windows Sound menu for the Hifi Cable (and ASIO bridge) 

7. Upon launching Apple Music within itunes , I played a track but there was no sound 

Until I enabled the ASIO panel button on th ASIO bridge control panel!

This provided ASIO input into my Gustard A26 DAC ( Gustard USB 2.0 driver)

8. The resulting SQ was more focus and precision! I am still testing this and will give more examples

But I compared itunes playback of the Doobie Brothers "Southbound" album using Speaker - Gustard USB 2.0

(A definite improvrment for very little expense)

and then through the Hifi Cable ASIO Bridge driver - Gustard USB 2.0

Try this if u want better SQ from your Apple Music thru your Windows 11 devices 

So I set my Audio MIDI to 16/44.1 output.

I send this via USB to a Khadas Tone Board which performs 8x oversampling in this case.

Any experiences which settings sound best with Spotify and an external DAC?

Thx

Matt

My friend as bought 2 Homepod minis for his TV replacing is speakers bar the went dead.

We didn't succeed to have them play replacing the regular TV speakers.

Then he bought a Apple TV, still not succeeded.

Yes the homepods play well alone, the are matched up with the apple TV, good too

BUT we just wanted to listen to the cable TV... like regular news channel  CBC (Montreal here) with the Homepod playing through the TV...

It is arc hdmi plugged in the TV, goes in the Apple TV. we choose on the apple TV menu. sound through TV just like many videos on Youtube.

they say you can play your dvd, your games but they never show a rugalar channel on the cable to show you it does work??

Can Homepod minis play sound from regular cable TV channel, like CBS, TSN... ?

Thank you for reading.

I just signed up for three free months of Apple Music, which I’ve never used before. The main reason I did was to be able to play any of the full tracks I’ve Shazamed. I can play those full tracks now in Shazam, but I can’t get them to show up as a playlist in Apple Music in either the Music IOS app or the Music Mac app, despite having Apple Music active and signed in. I have “Sync Shazams to Apple Music’ turned on in Shazam, but I don’t see that playlist in the Music apps. I do see that Shazam has access to my Apple Music account, in the Music app account settings. 

Do I need to have “sync library” turned on in the Music App for Shazam playlists to show up in the Music apps? I don’t think I would want to do that.

Kirk, if you are reading this, I’ve owned previous versions of your iTunes FAQ books, but never paid attention to the Apple Music parts, since I wasn’t using it, and didn’t plan to. I just bought Take Control of Mac Media Apps, and am working my way through it. But doing a word search in the PDF for ‘Shazam” drew a blank. So I’m asking here. I know you you also have a very large iTunes library. Do you use iCloud sync for your iTunes library? 

I need a new powersupply for an older MBP. I want to go for an Apple one and can use either the 60W or the 85W one. In my country (Germany) the price for both devices is the same. 
Is the sound quality with the 85W unit higher than with the 60W unit?

Thx

Matt