Therefore version 2 also has its own, simple user interface. The left column lets you choose between the play queue and the library. The latter shows either all albums with cover art or all tracks. ![]() When in track view you can sort on any field that’s displayed. Audirvana and JRiver simply work with all popular audio files. Just copy the files to the directory that hold the music and they are automatically indexed. Pure Music was disqualified since it fought with a video program that I need to use from time to time.Īudirvana 2+ can work like Amarra and Pure Music and use the iTunes functionality for user interface. ![]() Like Amarra and others it uses iTunes as user interface and, again, the sound is excellent. But I can’t keep buying updates of all programs only to keep up to date with all. So I kept using the two remaining: Media Center by JRiver, currently at version 21 and Audirvana Plus 2. Two totally different programs, neither needing iTunes, which is a plus for me since I have a very large music collection, including DSF rips of my 500 SACD’s. ITunes will not do FLAC or DSD in any shape or form. It sounds a little rounded, as if there was a slight high end roll off. But I didn’t find any evidence of that during measuring. Since I found several other players that sounded that little more sparkling, Amarra was dropped too. The user interface is simple, some may like that others might not. But the reason to abandon Decibel was the sound quality which was clearly sub-par. The third one I dropped might surprise you: Amarra by Sonic Studio. I used two versions, the only difference being the higher sample rates made accessible or not. In the mean time there is a version that does room acoustics compensation and a version that plays Tidal. Two years ago BitPerfect by BitPerfect Sound Inc. This is a very affordable player, costing € 9,95 and I would have loved it for that reason. But it had a nasty mid range sound and didn’t have memory play. But it’s not a review as I normally do.ĭecibel by S-Booth was the second to leave the race. ![]() Initially there were two kinds of players: very basic and cheap players with horrible user interfaces and players that used iTunes as user interface with added status bar offering extra controls. I’ll give you my story on players, but keep in mind that players that I disapproved with a few years ago, in the mean time, might be improved.
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