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Audirvāna Studio Changelog

What's new in Audirvāna Studio 2.3.0

Apr 15, 2023
  • New view by genre in local library: Select a genre in the displayed list to show all its albums or tracks
  • UPnP: refresh button in the audio device selection dialog to force rescan of connected UPnP network players
  • Album, artist editorial informations: improve matching in streaming service when albums or artists have acronym names
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.7 (Mar 26, 2023)

  • Max volume alert: can be disabled from both the popup window itself ('do not show next time') and the audio settings (output device volume control). The alert popup also closes automatically after 10s and the Remote app can start playback again (once the volume has been reduced)

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.6 (Mar 23, 2023)

  • Max volume alert: when starting playback, a warning popup now asks the user if he wants to continue when the volume is set to more than 90%
  • Gradual volume increase: To avoid unwanted volume leap, the actual volume is increased at a maximum rate of 9dB per second to give time to the user to reduce it if needed
  • Media keys: give control to 3rd party apps (e.g. Teams, Zoom, Music, FaceTime) when actively used (frontmost)
  • Folder sync: allow to remove a synched folder that is offline
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.5 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • Album, artist editorial informations: improve matching in streaming service
  • Remote: fixed erroneous pause playback status
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.4 (Mar 1, 2023)

  • Sort by file location: Sort tracks as done by the Finder
  • iTunes created M4A tracks: play gaplessly ignoring primming and trailing silence as described in iTunSMPB metadata tag
  • UPnP playback: maintain seek feature available even with network players not supporting seek in RAW PCM
  • Qobuz: Handle accounts with huge number of favorite albums
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.3 (Jan 11, 2023)

  • UI update: New start view choices, including starting with the last displayed view (in settings, appearance page)
  • UI update: New confirmation popups before deleting tracks or albums from the local library, or from a playlist (Undo Cmd+Z still works)
  • Account login: The popup informing another computer has been disconnected automatically closes after 20s to ease unattended startup
  • SysOptimizer: Update for compatibility with latest Ventura authorization rule change
  • Qobuz: Display all albums of playlists even if they exceed 1000 tracks
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.2 (Dec 15, 2022)

  • UPnP: strengthening device detection mechanism

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.1 (Dec 15, 2022)

  • UPnP: correct detection of HEOS devices
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.0 (Dec 8, 2022)

  • Qobuz: improved login security (oAuth 2 protocol)
  • Local playlists: confirmation to delete a local playlist. This confirmation popup can be asked to not be shown. Undo delete (Cmd Z) can still be used to undo such deletion
  • Remote: updates needed for the upcoming remote app 4.0
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.1.0 (Nov 28, 2022)

  • NEW: Last.fm scrobble: Your music playback activity can now feed your Last.fm account (connect using the button at the bottom of the streaming settings page)
  • macOS Ventura fully compatible
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.4 (Nov 16, 2022)

  • Offline Mode: warning popup is no more blocking application startup, allowing for unattended startup while Internet connection is offline
  • Audio Unit plugins: prevent bad plugin initialization from crashing whole application
  • Universal Gapless Playback: over 3 hours continuous playback is now possible. No more playback time limit, for both PCM and DSD
  • Index letters: ensure figures (if present) are displayed in ascending order
  • Tracks list: range select (shift + click) is fixed
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.0 (Oct 21, 2022)

  • Chromecast Support added: You can play to any Chromecast device, or group of devices located in different parts of your home (multi-room)
  • Universal Gapless playback added: you can enable the option and force gapless playback even if your UPnP device is not gapless
  • Audio Scan updated: evolution of the HD Analyzer, you can now get more information on your tracks even about non Hi Res recordings
  • Device-specific settings: upsampling and output settings are now automatically saved and linked to the output device
  • UI update: Alphabetical shortcuts are now available
  • UI update: Start view can now be changed (in settings, appearance page)
  • UI update: Source list order can be edited (in settings, appearance page)
  • UI update: Audio settings, 'technical player', edition tools & shortcuts have been revamped
  • Login window: account login now uses the system browser to allow use of password manager for one click login
  • Added Artist, Album, Playlist extended actions accessible from the "..." button (e.g. add to play queue, to playlist)
  • Compatibility with new Remote App Tablet mode update (coming soon)
  • Fix Ogg FLAC files loading
  • Save History tracks list columns position
  • Fix Local artist Playlists request to avoid displaying duplicate results
  • Shuffle playback: clicked track is correctly the first one to play
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.14.0 (Aug 10, 2022)

  • NEW: WavPack DSD files are now played (in addition to the standard PCM ones)
  • Local library: Dropped files may not be synchronized correctly when their parent folder was added to to synchronized list after. This is now fixed.
  • Reliability improvement against corrupted audio files. Such badly damaged MP3, AAC, ALAC files do not cause hang anymore, and simply skipped.
  • Legacy Audirvana database import: add automatic fix for missing values that were causing the import to restart.
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.13.3 (Jun 26, 2022)

  • TIDAL Hotfix: Allow MQA playback, even with TIDAL latest change on their servers

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.13.2 (Jun 23, 2022)

  • NEW: Qobuz Weekly Q: Your weekly playlist made from your listening tastes is now available in the Explore view of Qobuz
  • Qobuz: The artist discography is now displayed sorted by release category (album, single, live, ...)
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.13.1 (Jun 14, 2022)

  • NEW: Qobuz Autoplay: Playback continues like a radio after the last played track of the play queue, if it is a Qobuz track.
  • This can be deactivated in the Streaming page of the Settings.
  • Folders view: fix navigation issues among folders
  • TIDAL: TIDAL playlists can now be sorted by the date the track has been added
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.13.0 (May 16, 2022)

  • NEW: TIDAL Autoplay: Playback continues like a radio after the last played track of the play queue, if it is a TIDAL track.
  • This can be deactivated in the Streaming page of the Settings.
  • Qobuz: read multiple artists information for albums and tracks
  • Qobuz: higher security authentication method linked to the Audirvāna account (No need to relog on Qobuz when switching to another computer)
  • TIDAL: fix myMix tracks retrieval
  • Offline mode: fix switch to offline mode without exiting the application
  • CueSheet: loosen syntax check, falling back to single track in case of incorrect/missing INDEX line
  • Audio devices: handle nicely case where no audio device is connected
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.12.2 (Mar 23, 2022)

  • Internet Radios: improve buffering to remove any unwanted short pause during playback
  • Playing track waveform: display also when playing a DSD track to a DSD DAC
  • Album metadata editor: properly keep the artist picture when changing the album artist
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.12.0 (Mar 14, 2022)

  • Library backup: Save local artists pictures
  • Library backup: Save all playlists filters
  • Playlist creation: Upon creation of smart playlist, open automatically the filters editor
  • Folders view: Sort root folders by full path and not by device id
  • Sorted views: Add shortcut button to change the first sort criteria (in the middle of the line at the top of the view)
  • Local library albums view: Add expand all / collapse all buttons when the albums are shown grouped by first sort criteria
  • Local library special views: Add CD quality entry (16bit 44.1kHz not compressed or lossless audio files)
  • TIDAL myMix: Improve view by shrinking header when scrolling
  • Albums view: Add a workaround for macOS issue when returning from expanded ("See all") view, to proprely show all albums (or playlists) items in the view
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.11.0 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • UI Performance: strong speed improvement for very large libraries (e.g. more than 400'000 tracks)
  • Artist details: show the local playlists the artist appears in
  • Source list: opt-in option for extended local views (Recently added, MQA, DSD, Hi-Res)
  • Sort criteria: allow to change the alphabetical and regional sorting criteria for all local library sorts
  • UI update: missing artist and album icon update
  • UI update: swipe left/right trackpad gesture to go to previous or next view
  • Playlist, play queue tracks list UI: auto-scroll when dragging tracks to bottom or top for the visible list
  • Artist details: Play all button now plays all local artist albums if there are no artist top tracks found from active streaming service
  • Artist details: automatically expand artist albums view if there are no other related albums
  • Local artists view: now defaulting to Album Artists only, if the filter option has not been changed to display featuring artists, composers...
  • Streaming album or artist: error message displayed when no more available in the streaming service
  • Tracks list view: favorite icon always visible for favorite tracks
  • Qobuz: track replay gain retrieved
  • Qobuz: do not show artist albums that can't be played
  • Volume control: fix dB scale display for close to silence values. +/- default step now set to 1dB
  • Local settings: synched folders are now listed sorted alphabetically by file path, whatever the containing drive
  • Local library playlist: opening an album in a local playlist shows only the album tracks that are in the playlist
  • Local library: ability to delete tracks from the local library when viewed in a local album, or a smart playlist
  • Playlists browser: ability to delete a playlist from the contextual menu
  • Playlists browser: scroll position is now remembered
  • Filters Editor: delete button not shown when there is one and only one filter active
  • Local recycle bin: selection of tracks can now be done by clicking on any word in the deleted track row
  • AudioUnit plugins: exclude mono only plugins from the available list (legacy API)
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.10.2 (Jan 17, 2022)

  • Fix disconnect error

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.10.1 (Jan 17, 2022)

  • Audio Units: Fix offline processing

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.10.0 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • NEW: To ease the switch from one computer to another, logging in a new computer automatically disconnects the previous one. This new default behaviour can be deactivated on the account management page my.audirvana.com
  • Audio Units: Option to use macOS v3 API (in the Audio Units settings popup)
  • Smart Playlist: "not contains" operator added for text criteria
  • Playlist: drop streaming tracks from an Audirvāna playlist onto a playlist hosted on the service they originate from
  • Playlist tracks view: fix scroll with mouse wheel
  • Metadata editor: fix saving changes made at album level
  • Metadata recovery: strengthen disc number recovery
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.9.0 (Dec 22, 2021)

  • NEW: Local Favorites and Playlists backup (using command in Settings, Local page)
  • Local library synchronization: Also synchronize audio files with corrupted metadata
  • Volume control: Fix +/- buttons behavior with some devices where it previously set erroneously the volume to 0
  • Search: remember active search sources
  • Navigation: going back to a view with multiple items restores the expanded ("see all") one
  • Metadata editor: fix move to previous/next track
  • Radios and Podcasts: show all favorites, even if there are more than 20
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.8.7 (Dec 14, 2021)

  • Onboarding: Improved with initial setup, and main features tour, can be relaunched from Settings, Appearance page
  • Qobuz: fix artist albums sort
  • Metadata completion: Option in Settings (Local page) to opt-out from auto-completion of missing artist, track number, release date. Note that even with auto-completion set to on, these missing metadata are NOT saved to the actual audio file
  • Playlists Import: Improved user interface, with progress indicator, and detailed list of not found tracks, if any
  • Local playlists with streaming tracks: Allow to use streaming content in filters
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.8.5 (Nov 24, 2021)

  • Tracks views: Show album covers for each track (option in Appearance page of the settings)
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.8.1 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • UPnP: fix DSD playback
  • Remote: strengthen link when quickly switching views

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.8.0 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • NEW: Folders View, to browse your local library through files folders tree
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.7.2 (Oct 10, 2021)

  • UPnP: workaround for volume control with buggy network players
  • Cue Sheet: fix multitracks load
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.7.1 (Oct 1, 2021)

  • Booklet viewer: can now change the zoom factor using the toolbar zoom slider
  • Local library: fix totals not displayed in top info line
  • Mini player: remember size and position
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.7.0 (Sep 26, 2021)

  • NEW: Large fonts display (Option in Settings, Appearance page)
  • Monterey (macOS 12) compatibility
  • Fix display issues with High Sierra (macOS 10.13)
  • Sort columns names in tracks list visible columns selection menu
  • Harden FLAC loader against corrupted files
  • Faster stop when upsampling to very high sample rate
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.6.4 (Aug 31, 2021)

  • Mixed playlists (including tracks from local library, streaming, podcasts, ...): Fix album display
  • Huge libraries: improve navigation performance
  • UPnP: workaround for devices with buggy gapless implementation
  • MQA: Fix 16bit MQA read to a MQA renderer device
  • Playlist contents view: shrink header when scrolling
  • Metadata: fix read/write in huge files (more than 2GB)
  • Streaming playlist: fix long manual playlist sort
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.6.1 (Aug 3, 2021)

  • TIDAL My Mix: available in Remote app (please note the Remote app incorrectly shows a favorite button when showing a My Mix contents. Just ignore it until it is removed in an upcoming Remote app update)
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.6.0 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • NEW: TIDAL My Mix (Accessible using TIDAL > Explore)
  • Radios: workaround for playing radios from Shoutcast servers not delivering correct MIME type
  • Fix login issues with non latin characters in user name
  • Remote: Fix album tracks display for streaming albums with missing tracks
  • Offline mode: fix unexpected application exit
  • Artist metadata editor: allow to change local artist picture
  • Library synchronization: additional verification for network share mounting error
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.7 (Jul 19, 2021)

  • UPnP: workaround to allow playback continuing to next track, even with devices with buggy gapless implementation
  • UPnP: workaround for volume +/- buttons control, even with devices sending buggy dB volume information
  • Audio playback and analysis: fallback nicely when loading corrupted Apple Lossless, m4a, mp3 files
  • Audio analysis: handle correctly files with special characters in their names
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.6 (Jul 9, 2021)

  • Updates for Remote control app
  • More FLAC/OggFLAC radios can be played
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.5 (Jul 1, 2021)

  • UPnP: Add option in audio device settings (audio page of the preferences) to not try to select RAW PCM stream format when playing in UPnP. Some network players have issues playing such stream format
  • Remote: fix HRA-Streaming access
  • Streaming: load correctly Qobuz featured pages when using genre filter
  • My Music: fix double display of streaming favorite tracks
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.1 (Jun 28, 2021)

  • Minor fixes for Remote Control
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.0 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • Add new My Playlists browser (Entry in My Music)
  • Fix hang when playing over UPnP a playlist made of local and streaming tracks
  • Fix playlist shortcuts for streaming playlists
  • Fix opening of album in playlist made of dropped files
  • Fix genre filter for smart playlists
  • Other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.5 (Jun 17, 2021)

  • Fix display issues on High Sierra
  • Show number of active filters in toolbar button
  • Fix streaming playlist album play

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.0 (Jun 11, 2021)

  • Improve audio files analysis progress information
  • Play AAC radio streams
  • Pause radio playback
  • Other minor UI fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.3.0 (Jun 3, 2021)

  • Fix SysOptimizer install
  • Show all HRA streaming curated playlists
  • Improve reliability playing to multichannel DACs
  • Fix iTunes synched album tracks listing
  • Other reliability fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.2.0 (May 27, 2021)

  • Saving the track Musicbrainz ID in audio file metadata is now an opt-in option in settings, set to off by default
  • Fix HRA streaming playlists and genres browse
  • Fix add/remove/reorder tracks in TIDAL playlist
  • Fix playlists navigator expand/collapse folder

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.1.0 (May 27, 2021)

  • Reduce memory footprint while performing audio fingerprinting
  • Add images for radio subgenres
  • Fix TIDAL artist albums display
  • Fix Chinese translation

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.19 (Mar 5, 2020)

  • TIDAL Security Update:
  • Following this update you need to log in again once in TIDAL.
  • A new web browser window will appear to log in TIDAL.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.18 (Mar 5, 2020)

  • Highly recommended update for TIDAL users

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.16 (Mar 26, 2019)

  • Fix TIDAL favorite artist incomplete display
  • Fix rare occurence crashes

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.15 (Jan 25, 2019)

  • Workaround for Mojave vs Keyboard media keys handling on some specific mac setups

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.14 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Fix display of similar artists from TIDAL

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.13 (Dec 5, 2018)

  • Handle new TIDAL file format for 320kbps streaming

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.12 (Oct 12, 2018)

  • Handle new Qobuz Studio subscription

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.11 (Oct 2, 2018)

  • Fix Mojave UI minor issues

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.10 (Sep 17, 2018)

  • Fix streaming WAV files playback

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.9 (Aug 31, 2018)

  • Fix rare crash upsampling to DSD
  • Fix synched folders reconnection on partition migrated from HFS+ to APFS (HighSierra and Mojave)

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.8 (Jun 17, 2018)

  • Fix crash displaying buggy Qobuz playlist

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.7 (May 4, 2018)

  • Fix dropouts when upsampling with SoX to DSD from 48kHz multiple PCM tracks

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.6 (Mar 1, 2018)

  • Fix integer mode playback on multi-channel devices
  • Fix UPnP playback on some devices
  • Fix iTunes integrated mode time position alignment

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.5 (Jan 13, 2018)

  • Fix rare issues when upsampling.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.4 (Jan 5, 2018)

  • Fix rare crashes with SoX upsampling.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.3 (Dec 22, 2017)

  • Fix crash when using SoX and Audio Unit
  • Fix incomplete load with SoX upsampling
  • Fix blank steepness field issue in Audio Filters preferences when switching from SoX to iZotope

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.2 (Dec 20, 2017)

  • Fix crash when upsampling to DSD using iZotope instead of SoX.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.2.1 (Dec 20, 2017)

  • NEW: New ultra high quality upsampling algorithm available: SoX. Can be chosen and tuned in the Audio Filters page of preferences.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.8 (Nov 16, 2017)

  • Fix TIDAL/Qobuz login issue with some passwords
  • Make use of album ReplayGain value now provided by TIDAL
  • Fix iTunes integrated mode when controlled with iTunes 12.7 and latest Remote app

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.7 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • Workaround for avoiding crash with damaged audio files on HighSierra
  • Fix incorrect duration values sometimes sent to remote

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.6 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • Updates for supporting the new A+ Remote features (MQA albums and tracks highlight, Date added sort, Audio device selection and setup).

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.5 (Oct 5, 2017)

  • Fix DR rating computation rounding error
  • Workaround for reading DSF files with damaged end
  • Remove Direct Mode option when the OS does not support it (e.g. non patched Sierra or High Sierra)
  • Fix Airplay playback for High Sierra

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.4 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.3 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Fix crashes, including ones when the MQA devices detection option is active
  • Metadata editor: fix modified issue for erroneous tracks with disc count but not disc number
  • Fix UPnP device no DSD user setting not taken into account

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.2 (Sep 1, 2017)

  • Fix multichannel playback when using SW volume control
  • Fix unable to close albums detail view in some rare cases
  • Fix crash with some AudioUnits when displaying presets
  • And other fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1.1 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Fix crash when using realtime configuration for audio units
  • German localization improvements

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.1 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Playback to UPnP/DLNA network players

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.7 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • TIDAL: workaround for TIDAL server bug not returning requested number of featured/genre albums/tracks
  • Qobuz: add option to limit Sublime/Sublime+ streaming to 96kHz
  • Add Database integrity check command (File menu > Library > Optimize database)

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.6 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Fix surround channels not played on a multichannel system
  • Allow only one instance of Audirvana Plus to run simultaneously on same computer to avoid database corruption
  • Fix CueSheet not loading correctly album artist for first track
  • Fix AudioUnits effects not working when upsampling to DSD
  • Starting playback on a track in shuffle mode starts with this track at beginning of shuffled play queue
  • Fix discontinuity when playing back some AAC files in 32bit not upsampled mode (files with silence at beginning)
  • Fix Smart playlist "is" criteria with empty value

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.5 (Apr 12, 2017)

  • Fix SysOptimizer disabled services not reenabled when exiting
  • Fix keyboard volume keys not able to set volume down to mute and up to 100%
  • iTunes integrated mode: fix unable to resume playback from iTunes controls

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.4 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • Rewritten SysOptimizer with complete Sierra compatibility
  • Update iTunes synchronisation following iTunes 12.6 update that broke compatibility
  • Fix Library Sync setup issue not displaying correctly synched folders on Mavericks
  • Fix no sound when Audio Units settings wrongly configured
  • Fix Audio Unit realtime configuration window reappearing after stopping playback

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.3 (Mar 21, 2017)

  • Fix native DSD streaming when SW volume control is enabled
  • Fix upsampling custom sample rate wrongly displayed in preferences
  • Fix inability to play tracks in some CueSheets
  • Streaming artists: load more than 20 artists when artists list view is of more than 20 lines
  • Immediately handle Volume control type change in preferences in user interface
  • Fix issue preventing playback and ReplayGain computation of audio files with a '+' in their path name
  • WavPack library update to 5.1.0

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.2 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • WARNING: The MQA devices automatic detection is now optional. If you have a MQA DAC, you need to enable it in the Audio System page of the preferences. This is needed as the "are you MQA able?" request send to some DACs make their USB interface crash. This option will be removed and the automatic detection always active when this incompatibility issue is fixed.
  • Fix MQA decoding not done when playing to Mytek Stereo 192-DSD.
  • Fix legacy iTunes integrated mode not playing correct track.
  • Remove TIDAL deprecated Discovery category.
  • Fix SysOptimizer re-installation on Sierra.

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.1 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • Fixes DSD to PCM playback rate
  • Few minor bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 3.0.0 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • MQA Core Decoder
  • Improved Audio Playback engine
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6.6 (Feb 3, 2017)

  • Fix 48kHz AAC files recognized wrongly as 44.1kHz
  • Fix rare case where automated synchronization was not working
  • Other minor bugs fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6.5 (Jan 20, 2017)

  • Fix missing tracks/albums/artists and rare crash when importing
  • Fix incorrect bitrate for tracks imported from iTunes library
  • In Play Queue: if playing track selected, selection follows it to keep tracks details display playing track
  • Add Cmd . shortcut to completely stop playback
  • Fix manual playlist display not updated when removing all its tracks
  • Fix Play Queue duration was displayed zero
  • Fix migration from version 2.5 of albums view sort criteria
  • Other minor bugs fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6.4 (Jan 6, 2017)

  • Fix FLAC loader issue leading to playback stopping sometimes in last 2s of a track
  • Fix inability to remove offline sync folder
  • Fix inability to select multiple albums in albums view with cmd-click
  • Fix Play Queue not updated upon track metadata change (e.g. play count)
  • Fix shuffled playlist on shuffled at start

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6.3 (Dec 24, 2016)

  • iTunes sync: correctly compute album artists when this metadata is missing
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6.2 (Dec 16, 2016)

  • Better metadata handling on files with erroneous values
  • Correctly disengages in iTunes integrated mode to allow Apple Music and other DRM protected content to be played in iTunes
  • And various minor bug fixes, some that were potentially leading to crashes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6.1 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Use only album title and album artist(s) as criteria for grouping tracks in albums
  • Fix empty selection issue in multi columns filter browser
  • Fixed drop dsf/dsdiff files wrongly truncated to 1/8 size
  • Fix bugs leading to crashes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.6 (Dec 3, 2016)

  • Major improvements including:
  • Rewritten database engine bringing strong improvements in the library manager performance and reliability
  • Album and tracks dynamics with EBU R128 3342 loudness dynamic range, and DR rating analysis
  • ReplayGain automatic volume levelling at track and album level
  • Management of multiple artists per track or album
  • Full Text Search and Hyperlink Navigation within the whole library
  • Sort names for artists names, tracks and albums titles for sorting with a different name than the displayed one

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.4 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Direct Mode is disabled by default when running on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) that has a regression preventing Direct Mode from working
  • Initial Chinese translation
  • Add TEAC NT-503 to DSD white list
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.3 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • Fix crashes when upsampling to DSD
  • Add SDM filter order information in the selection menu (in user preferences)
  • TIDAL: show all related artists (adding influenced by, followed by) in addition to the similar ones

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.2 (Jun 3, 2016)

  • Fix crashes when upsampling to DSD
  • PCM to DSD upsampling: auto SDM filter reset if it has diverged (due to too loud track with hard clipping)
  • Fix not synching correctly FLAC files with not fully compliant metadata
  • Sound Quality optimization

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.1.4 (May 22, 2016)

  • Compatibility of Direct Mode with OS X 10.11.5
  • Synched folders: Fix when a folder was moved into a synched folder, its contents were not synched

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.1.2 (May 18, 2016)

  • Fix compatibility issue with OS X 10.9

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.1.1 (May 18, 2016)

  • Fix last track in playlist play count update when stopping playback
  • Fix iTunes integrated mode compatibility with iTunes versions prior to 12.4

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5.1 (May 18, 2016)

  • PCM to DSD (64, 128 and 256fs) upsampling using Måns Rullgård SDM implementation (still experimental)
  • TIDAL browsing: display album description and credits (when available), with active hyperlinks to navigate among albums/artists
  • TIDAL browsing: add button in artist view to show its most listened (top) tracks
  • Qobuz promotion: 1 month free trial of Qobuz HiFi voucher for Audirvana Plus purchased license owners
  • Compatiblity of iTunes integrated mode with iTunes 12.4
  • Explicit error message telling to deactivate Direct Mode when facing the new bug introduced in OS X 10.11.5 that prevents Direct Mode from working
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix playing track play/skip count not updated when stopping playback
  • Allow disconnect from streaming service, even when connection failed
  • Fix sort criteria not correctly saved for some track lists
  • Other bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.5 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • TIDAL Streaming Integration
  • TIDAL Streaming promotion: 3 months free trial of TIDAL HiFi voucher for Audirvana Plus purchased license owners
  • TIDAL Streaming remote control with A+ Remote 1.6
  • Hyperlink navigation (albums, artists, composers) for streaming services
  • Streaming browse history (previous and next buttons)
  • Streaming favorite tracks set/unset
  • Bug fixes:
  • Play Queue playing track highlight fixes
  • Fix tracks duplication when the network share id changed
  • Fix unable to restart playback after having tried to play a non streamable album
  • Other bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.4 (Mar 14, 2016)

  • Functions for A+ Remote 1.5 (Qobuz and HighResAudio navigation, playlists view as albums, ...)
  • HighResAudio VirtualVault integration
  • Load sequentially streaming tracks to reduce network load (network bandwidth is the bottleneck)
  • Qobuz: option to limit the max quality for low bandwidth connections
  • Streaming: show playlists as albums (in addition to tracks list)
  • Manual playlists can now be sorted (for local and streaming playlists)
  • Add Mytek Manhattan to known DoP compatible DACs
  • Add shortcut (⌥⌘B) to display album booklet when the album tracks view is displayed
  • Bug fix:
  • Fix artist, composer, album artist text truncated in tracks list view
  • Update Sparkle framework to 1.13.1 (security fix). https connection to audirvana.com was already used though
  • FLAC metadata saving: For ensemble, replace the existing tag ORCHESTRA or ENSEMBLE if any, not forcing to have ORCHESTRA tag
  • Other bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.3.3 (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Asynchronous loading initiation of tracks, not blocking UI, especially if the track is located on a slow remote server
  • Add AppleScript integration into Airfoil (track title, ... and remote control)
  • Clicking on artist in play queue for a streaming track opens the artist albums view
  • Do not show composer in album tracks view grouping rows when the composer column is shown
  • Add menu command to play the selected album (in albums view), with Option + Space key shortcut
  • Save album booklet view preferred view mode. (View mode can be changed by option clicking on the displayed pdf)
  • Bug fix:
  • Fix transport info with large text (artist or album title) enlarging the window
  • Fix double click, right click on track making no action
  • Fix crashes with some Audio Unit plugins
  • User search field to work also with manual playlists
  • Other bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.3.2 (Jan 2, 2016)

  • Folder Albums and SACD ISO can be set as Favorite albums
  • Bug fix:
  • Tracks list view smooth scrolling when using mouse wheel
  • Fix incomplete loading of last track in a list when user seeks directly to it
  • Other bug fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.3.1 (Dec 26, 2015)

  • Bug fix: Fix crash when viewing folder albums with search text

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.3 (Dec 23, 2015)

  • Qobuz hires streaming complete integration
  • User interface modernization for local library track lists and albums views

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.5 (Nov 23, 2015)

  • DSD256 playback with DoP 1.1 devices (in addition to DoP 1.0)
  • Add Merging Ravenna (Merging+Nadac) to DSD DoP 1.1 devices
  • Bug fix:
  • Fix loading of 20bit FLAC files
  • Workaround for El Capitan bug with 16 and 24bit USB DACs when playing in iTunes integrated mode

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.4 (Sep 27, 2015)

  • Mute during sample rate is now an option, set to off by default
  • Bug fix: Search in tracks list in Snow Leopard

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.3 (Sep 17, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix audio device reconfiguration when exiting Audirvana Plus while playing
  • Fix possible muting of audio output when whanging sample rate
  • Fix imported playlist not visible in rare cases

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.2 (Sep 13, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix crash when using some criteria in smart playlist
  • Fix File menu items for English and German locales
  • Reduce database migration memory footprint

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2.1 (Sep 11, 2015)

  • Added Date: store for each track the date it has been added to the library, or the iTunes added date when doing iTunes synchronization.
  • Note that when upgrading from a previous Audirvana Plus library, for tracks in synchronized folders the last modified date will be used as the added date for existing tracks.
  • Added date can be used as a criterion in a smart playlist (a.k.a Recently Added).
  • Playlists import/export (M3U format)
  • OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) compatibility
  • Add Marantz PM 7005 to DSD DACs white list, and automatically limit its PCM output to 192kHz
  • Display info line (nb albums/tracks, duration) in tracks list and album views
  • Other usability improvements, especially in the playlists management
  • Optimize loading time
  • Bug fixes:
  • Add explicit wake up of the Mac upon connection of A+ Remote
  • Fix missing tracks coming from iTunes library synchronization, give error list with not found ones (volume on which are the files is not mounted, or files have been deleted since and iTunes library has not been updated)
  • Several other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.2 (Jul 29, 2015)

  • This release brings the server capabilities to be controlled by A+ Remote, the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch app to remote control Audirvana Plus.
  • iTunes integrated mode: Disengage automatically to let iTunes play directly DRM protected files (.m4p)
  • Add Luxman DA-06, Wadia di122, Devialet (from firmware v8) to whitelist of automatically recognized DSD capable DACs
  • Display play queue total # tracks and time
  • Add and modify toolbar at bottom of the hierarchical list of playlists
  • Audio volume icon and value in dB
  • Rename "Libraries" to "Sources"
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix setting another album with same title but different album artist not working when editing single or multiple tracks metadata
  • Fix sync not creating correctly album with same name as existing, but different album artist
  • Fix deleting one track in play queue was also deleting all the other occurrences of the same track
  • Add Artist as a criteria when searching "All" in the Albums
  • Several other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.1.1 (May 23, 2015)

  • Implement Prune Play Queue menu command
  • Filter out movie files
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix Drag&Drop to handle Cue Sheets & SACD ISO
  • Remove the remember playlist between starts deprecated option
  • Dropped files: sort dropped files, but not inside .m3u playlists
  • Fix rating metadata read/write in m4a files
  • Fix Recycle Bin not displayed in German locale
  • Several other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.1 (May 18, 2015)

  • "Drag&Drop": ability to add temporary tracks to the Play Queue by dropping files, folders, .m3u playlists, and iTunes tracks directly in the Play Queue (or on the Dock A+ icon, or using the Finder "Open with..." command)
  • In albums view, display folders (and SACD ISO) with tracks missing album metadata as albums (using the folder name as album title). Proposal to convert the tracks in such folder into an album
  • Upon iTunes sync, import all albums iTunes album art and propose to save in the audio files the ones only iTunes database
  • Add user selectable (in Volume Control page of the preferences) max bit depth for the dithering algorithm. Please note that the dithering algorithm is in function only when the volume is not at 100%
  • Add number of audio channels as column in tracks list view, and as criteria in structured filter browser, smart playlists
  • Display playing track enlarged cover art image at pixel resolution, offering a user preference setting to scale it down for sharp display on Retina screens (default to no)
  • Add BPM in the track metadata editor
  • Add blue color on the played part (left of the playing position cursor) on the playback transport bar for better visibility from distance
  • Pressing stop while playback is stopped resets the playing track to the first one in the Play Queue
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix library shuffled playback not playing all newly added tracks
  • Forbid to collapse album tracks detail view
  • Fix very rare track duplicates
  • Several other minor fixes

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.12 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • Playback of FLAC, AIFF, MP3, ... from a http server
  • Undo handling on playqueue and all playlist operations
  • Cut/Copy/Paste between playlists
  • Add number of audio channels as column in tracks list view, and as criteria in structured filter browser, smart playlists
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix delete command not working on pre-Yosemite systems
  • Several minor fixes in the playlists and playqueue management

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.11 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Add warning about still running background tasks when application is quitting
  • Better detection of Bluetooth devices to automatically deactivate Direct Mode for them
  • Add iFi DSD DACs, and DidiT High-End DAC212 to native DSD DACs white list
  • Various User Interface improvements (pause release upon double click on track, Cmd F shortcut for Find/Search text, ...)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix manual playlist reordering using drag and drop of tracks inside the manual playlist
  • Fix deletion of tracks in a manual playlist
  • Fix slow synchronization when displaying tracks list view of whole library

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.10 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • Display all tracks/albums in children playlists when selecting a playlist folder
  • Add file type and album artist as smart playlist criteria
  • Add file location as last sort criteria for the track list default sort criteria to still sort for files with missing metadata
  • Bug fix:
  • Fix to skip corrupted FLAC files instead of hanging
  • Fix clicking on license file not loading it when the trial license has expired
  • Fix noise reading some rare 16bit FLAC files

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.9 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • SysOptimizer: give explicit error message upon installation failure, especially for permissions issue
  • Add warning message when asking to move library database to external drive
  • Mount in background thread the network folders at startup
  • Compute bitrate for SACD ISO
  • Update libs: libFLAC to 1.3.1, libOgg to 1.3.2 ,WavPack to 4.70.0
  • Bug fix:
  • Fix missing WAV INFO tags leading to empty track title
  • Fix issues reading DSDIFF tags
  • Fix rare issue writing DSDIFF tags leading to damaged files
  • Don't open library file if it is in Trash
  • Fix orphan artists not deleted
  • Fix allowing to delete synched folders on not connected devices
  • Fix for removing artist, album,... of tracks that have been edited outside and whose artist, album,... has been removed
  • Remove duplicate COMMENT tag in FLAC files when modifying the comment tag

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.8 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • Bug fix:
  • Fix issues with a synched folder an external drive volume that is not connected (inability to remove it, and potential track duplicates)

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.7 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • Add rating and album rating as criteria for smart playlists
  • Read/write InfoTags in WAV files
  • Read/write ID3v2 tags in FLAC files when the standard XiphComment tags are not present
  • Add album artists in the fields searched when using "All" criteria in the search field in tracks list view
  • Add switch to Library mode in scripting interface
  • Add title as 3rd sort criteria (after disc and track number) for tracks sorting inside an album (helps with files missing track number metadata)
  • Delete key can be used to delete the selected playlist or folder
  • Creating a folder or playlist triggers editing its name (no need to explicitly click on rename just after)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix wrong formatting of duration criteria in smart playlist editor on some systems
  • Fix 00:00 duration on some tracks with unreadable metadata
  • Fix inability to read some DFF files
  • Fix duplicate tracks appearing sometimes after having renamed a synched folder

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.6 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • Folder sync speed optimization
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix sync not skipping existing and not modified tracks, potentially leading to duplicates
  • Fix album details not correctly refreshed after changing rating when in a manual playlist

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.5 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Remember playing track position in play queue after having stopped playback or quit program
  • Dark Mode (option in the View options, set to on by default) for albums view
  • Sort synched folder list by path
  • Highlight structured filter browser summary line as a button when mouse is over it
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix unable to delete synched folder on a not mounted device
  • Fix unwanted import of full volume where only some folders are in synched list
  • Auto-completion in metadata editor: nicely handle diacritical or case differences to allow entering different values than the ones in the suggestion list
  • Fix case in which some .m4a files were not imported
  • Fix potential crash when synching iTunes database
  • Fix external hard drives synched folders list issues
  • Fix database migration issue that could lead to damaged database

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.4 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Audio Engine optimizations
  • Change title of library change in preferences to state clearly it is only the database file that is to be moved
  • Add Bit Rate, last modified date columns in tracks list view
  • Remember metadata panel open/close status when re-opening Audirvana Plus
  • Yosemite dark mode better compatibility
  • Add Library settings to Debug Info
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix About Box not showing in French and German locales
  • Fix play count, skip count = 0 criteria not working in smart playlist
  • Fix albums wrongly imported split
  • Fix album tracks list view not updated upon track metadata update (in album view mode)

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.3 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • Add file location (relative to volume root path: e.g. /Users/damien/Downloads in volume / is handled as Users/damien/Downloads) in smart playlist criterias
  • Play queue: set text color to selectedTextColor for selected row, for better visibility
  • Add a splash window to let user know library is being moved
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix potential crash at startup on Yosemite
  • Enable to remove folder from sync list, even when it has been deleted from the file system
  • Fix for iTunes sync potential crash under 10.6
  • Fix potential crash when reloading playqueue at start
  • Fix Disc Number issue in smart playlist criteria

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.2 (Sep 30, 2014)

  • Add artist as albums search criteria for search filed in albums view
  • Add year as albums sort criteria in Albums View
  • Add audio file location column in tracks list view
  • Optimize playback start time for large libraries
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix for auto sync not working for file changes done when Audirvana Plus is not running
  • Fix wrong playing track duration displayed when sample rate converter is in action
  • Workaround to read AIFF metadata created with iTunes that are not fully compliant with AIFF standard (second fix)

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0.1 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Add Artist as sort criteria and subtitle property for albums view
  • Add Year to Smart Playlist criteria
  • Fix discCount tag not read correctly in ID3V2 tags (AIFF, WAV, MP3, … files)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Loosen the FLAC files validation to allow reading of metadata for files created with Wavelab
  • Restore user notification upon track change (for OS X 10.8+ only)
  • Workaround to read AIFF metadata created with iTunes that are not fully compliant with AIFF standard

New in Audirvāna Studio 2.0 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Major new release bringing full featured library manager

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.12 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Bug fix:
  • Fix metadata not being read correctly with proxy files leading to incorrect track playback in ISO and .Cue files

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.11 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Airplay Devices selection in preferences (Audio System page)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix for Retina Display issues for volume control knob and scrolling track title
  • Fix issue incorrectly reading multichannel track of SACD ISOs with Mytek DAC
  • Fix polarity inversion not propagated in case of proxy files
  • Fix slipping volume control in iTunes integrated mode, with dithered volume control

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.10 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • Large font option for playlist
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix incorrect pause buffer leading to clicks when pausing/stopping native DSD playback with some DACs
  • Fix issue playing audio units in realtime configuration mode with Mytek DAC
  • Fix issue preventing to correctly configure offline some Audio Units

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.9 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Sound quality optimizations
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix erroneous proxy files created using the Add to Itunes command
  • Fix crash with some multistream devices

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.8 (Sep 19, 2013)

  • Change from dark blue to red the highlight color of the currently playing track in the playlist
  • Fix potential pop when stopping playback or switching DSD to/form PCM with some specific DACs
  • Direct Mode: automatic restart after a strong issue
  • Bug fixes:
  • Deactivate Polarity Inversion for native DSD streams
  • Fix APE files album not loading
  • Fix wrong multiple chunk loading with upsampling leading to incomplete track load
  • Fix short burst of replaced track when the loaded track is replaced
  • Fix playback pausing at end of track when the next track has been replaced
  • Reduce memory increase on some systems having an issue to release memory automatically

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.7 (Sep 4, 2013)

  • User notification banner (only for OS X 10.8 and later) upon track change
  • Add long press on fast forward/rewind media key to move play position by 10s
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix rare occurences of playback stopping at end of a track when using upsampling and/or Audio Units
  • Fix potential crash at startup giving error message instead
  • Fix slow initial loading of DSD tracks
  • Fix correct track truncation when reading a buggy file of FLAC and APE type

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.6 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix potential gapless transition issues (added silence,... at end of track) when using upsampling and/or Audio Units
  • Fix short bursts of previous track/position that happened when resuming from pause with realtime Audio Units
  • Fix short burst of previous track at beginning of track when using upsampling and/or Audio Unit with delay line
  • Fix incomplete loading of last track
  • Fix possible issue when saving Audio Unit preset under OS X 10.6

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.5 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • SysOptimizer: add option to increase Audirvana Plus priority for better Sound Quality
  • Add configurable gain boost for DSD to PCM conversion. Default set to +6dB (comparable sound level as native DSD playback)
  • Fix gapless transition when using filters (Audio Units and/or sample rate conversion)

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.4 (Jul 9, 2013)

  • Fix inability to switch to iTunes integrated mode

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.3 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Direct Mode playback routine optimization
  • Bug fix: Fix potential crash when playing mono files

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.2 (Jun 19, 2013)

  • Scriptability to allow control of Audirvana Plus from another application using Apple Script
  • Bug fix: Fix incorrect track length when using proxy of different sample rate

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5.1 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Add hints for VoiceOver accessibility feature
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix DSD files not added to iTunes
  • Fix last seconds of the last of a playlist being cut off in iTunes integrated mode
  • Accept dropped tracks from iTunes in the playlist, even for ones with buggy information given by iTunes

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.5 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Multichannel playback
  • Audio Units effect plugins support
  • Add option to define upsampling per track sample rate
  • Add playlist sorting capability
  • Add command to scroll playlist to the currently playing track
  • DSD128 support for DoP 1.1 4x176.4kHz devices (Mytek)
  • In iTunes integrated mode, use the track start and finish settings (in iTunes track info settings) to play only the wished subset of the track
  • Remaining time display (toggle with total track time by clicking on it)
  • Add option to limit bitdepth to 24bit for bridges the offer both 24 and 32bit bitdepth
  • Add option to prevent screen from going to sleep
  • Update for compatiblity with iTunes 11.0.3
  • DSD256 and DSD512 conversion to PCM
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix gapless playback in Cue Sheets and when using dithered volume control
  • Fix last seconds of the last of a playlist being cut off in iTunes integrated mode
  • Airplay fix applied also for 10.8.3
  • Gapless playback even when using filters (sample rate converter and/or Audio Units)
  • Fix issue leading to crash in Direct Mode on Bluetooth devices (wrong number of channels recognition with streams of different number of channels)

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.6 (Mar 4, 2013)

  • New tuned method for Integer Mode playback for better sound quality. This new "mode 1" is set by default, the previous one (called "mode 2") can be selected in the user preferences
  • Check and set Audirvana Plus to be the default application to open .audlic files. This enables to load the license file by simply opening it.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed stalled playback bug in iTunes integrated mode/li>
  • Fix potential crash on 32bit architectures
  • Fix truncated text in German SysOptimizer panel
  • Do not hang when iTunes (11.0.2) is exiting while playing

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.5 (Feb 4, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix playback freeze upon iTunes track change in certain conditions
  • Fix 2s hickup to get to right track after iTunes track change in some rare conditions

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.4 (Jan 31, 2013)

  • Workaround for iTunes issue potentially leading to track mismatches in iTunes integrated mode
  • Automatically revert to CoreAudio when Airfoil is in use to allow it to grab the audio signal
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix SysOptimizer wrongly deactivating services not requested to be deactivated in user preferences

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.3 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix incorrect device selection that may make fail to use the #0 device if another one is the system default one
  • Fix for unwanted playback stops with some DACs in Integer Mode
  • Restore default devices settings after playback stop
  • and optimizations

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.2 (Jan 12, 2013)

  • Use Max I/O buffer setting is not used in Direct Mode: hidden from user prefs when in this mode
  • Defaults knob volume axis to rotation
  • Give the name of the application that already has the exclusive access of the device, in case of such issue preventing playback from starting
  • Bug fixes:
  • Recompute the correct duration of some damaged DSF files
  • Fallback correctly to the default output device when the preferred device is not found
  • Discard invalid DSD files (instead of crashing)
  • Fix crashes when adding multiple Cue Sheets (including buggy ones) to the playlist
  • Fix potential crash when leaving iTunes integrated mode while playing

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4.1 (Jan 12, 2013)

  • Reduce maximum audio buffers size to 256MB for 2GB RAM systems. Note that 2GB is a minimum, 4GB RAM or more is recommended
  • Bug fixes:
  • DirectMode dropouts fix for firewire devices
  • Automatically revert to CoreAudio for Airplay
  • DSD over PCM: dropouts in pause, and gaps between tracks suppression

New in Audirvāna Studio 1.4 (Jan 12, 2013)

  • Direct Mode, in addition to a sound quality increase by itself, brings back the Integer Mode that was lost in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion, for the better of Sound Quality.
  • Code Signature to be compliant with Mountain Lion GateKeeper
  • Average bitrate display for lossy compressed (mp3/aac) files
  • Bug fixes:
  • Correctly loading Cue Sheets with accented characters using Windows character set
  • Update play count and last played date in iTunes, even when play position in iTunes is deactivated
  • Fix potential crash when hot-unplugging an audio device
  • Allow switching to streams of 24bit from a 16bit stream, when the new sample rate exists only in 24bit in the audio device
  • Fix potential crash when hot-unplugging an audio device
  • Fix window size in French user prefs
  • Prevent user preferences panels from being partialy out of the screen boundaries
  • Fix proxy files not created for tracks with incorrect characters
  • Prevent computer from going to sleep while playing
  • Handle no available audio device issue with an abort error message
  • Avoid crash on unknown error at startup