Audirvāna Remote Hack 4.2.0 + Redeem Codes

Audirvana has been a big revelation in terms of how I listen to my music library. It sounds so much better than Apple’s stock Music app. Then, several months ago, I finally jumped on the streaming bandwagon with Qobuz. I had been a holdout as I refuse to listen to anything less than lossless CD-quality tracks.

Qobuz on its own sounds great but does sound even better through Audirvana on my MBP which is connected to Chord Electronics Hugo upsampling M-Scaler, Hugo TT2 DAC/preamp and headphone amp and TToby power amp driving Buchardt S400 speakers. My headphones are an Audeze LCD-4 and RAAL-requisite SR1a so I’m a fairly serious audiophile although by no means extreme.

This remote app for Audirvana is really great. Being able to sit far away from the display and control the Mac app really completes the MBP as the center of my audiophile music system. I’m still considering getting the Roon Nuclear+ to have a dedicated music server/streamer, but I’m quite happy with Audirvana playing my local library in the MBP and Qobuz so I really don’t see the need for it - not yet, at least. This remote app makes the system quite complete. Very nice!

This app is working wonders with a 12 year old MacBook Pro that is feeding a 6 or 7 year old Meridian Explorer 2 DAC. This iteration of the remote app, working on a 2019 iPad Pro, is about as great as it gets. It’s not encumbered with too many details or ways to get things done. Love how I can search a band or song and have the results show up under three tabs, Library which is on an external 4TB HD connected to the laptop, Tidal, and of course Qobuz. I have some 130+ Hi-Rez albums on the disk and I love being able to instantly compare them to the Tidal Masters and the Qobuz High resolution streams. Hint, they are hard to tell apart. This app is minimalistic yet lightning quick and as I said very powerful. Plus it allows real multitasking on the iPad while using it as the remote. Older remote app would have to reconnect to the laptop every time you went to another app. Now it immediately responds to the current song playing flashing new album art instantly. Love it!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

If you are interested in the ability to listen to your high quality sound sources as well as search through them Audirvana will address your needs. Usability through the program directly or the iOS remote makes listening easy and enjoyable. Interfacing with Qobuz or Tidal is smoother and much more responsive than through the respective native apps.

Behind the scenes Audirvana takes care of the heavy lift of getting the highest quality sound to your system whether you are wired directly, use AirPlay or through a DAC of your choosing. At a glance you can see the type and bit and sample rate of the music source and the output bit and sample rate to the DAC.

Audirvana is a clear choice if you want a simple yet powerful interface to control your music and quickly get music to your ears.

I use this for some audiophile music playback. My desktop computer is in another room and I hooked it up to my Oppo Digital player via the USB DAC with a long cable. I can send high resolution audio directly from my computer to the player and play it back on my stereo without worrying about issues with which type of network streaming I am using (WiFi vs wired. DLNA vs SMB and what will play via which streaming standard) plus I can remotely control what is playing from my computer in another room! This app finds music from Tidal and Qobuz. It also finds the music on my computer and network back up hard drive. I am VERY happy!!

Audirvana remote allows quick and easy building of live playlist access to your music. Fast and responsive on my iPad Air. It’s fun to swipe through your music looking at the covers, but also great to be able to drill down following an artist or finding different versions of the same song. I especially like the mode where the most recent selection is played next and all of your other selections are played from most recent to oldest. What’s lacking is a way to easily change polarity with the remote and the volume and pause controls are not always immediately available when you are searching deep in the library and a call comes in. Audirvana would not be complete without it, it should be included as it is how I access my music most of the time.

Since the last review I placed here things are running smoothly.
One additional request is to have the Remote be recognized by iPhones/iPads as a music player so that I can change the track, pause the music, or even open the app from my home screen. This would make things so much easier overall.

Also, everything seems to load much quicker (playlists and search results) with the updated versions of the remote. No real complaints to speak of.

5 stars. Well done guys. Keep working at it. As my previous review said, make Roon pay!

Previous review:

The search has improved greatly overall. I enjoy that.

The only thing I think Audirvana needs is the ability to make a playlist from multiple sources. I have both Tidal and Qobuz and when something isn’t on Qobuz, I’ll use Tidal. I wish I could just have one playlist for this.

Keep the updates coming. Make Roon pay.

FIXED:
Still a little glitchy at times. For example, searching Zöe Keating will sometimes make the app crash. I love how you can control more settings in it.

The new remote app is quicker than the old app but in accessing my albums when I choose an album and go back to all albums I’m sent back not to the area I was browsing but to the bottom of my collection. I must then scroll back to the area I was browsing. The old app did not do this. Seems like a minor fix and hope it is corrected soon. Also, the feature to jump to a letter doesn’t show when you go back to the library. Annoying to say the least.

All issues resolved with the new update. I have to give the remote 5 stars with the update. I’ve used Audirvana for years and couldn’t be more pleased.

5 stars audio 0 stars support. Am reposting the problem here:

using the Audirvana remote app regularly crashes the Audirvana software on my computer. This is using a 2019 Macbook and an Iphone, both with the latest (Feb 2020) software. No problem if, say, I’m moving from one song to the next in a playlist or album, but if I search and try to open another song, album, or playlist using the remote, the desktop app crashes every time. Have reinstalled several times but no change. Have posted about this in the community forum several times (and it seems a lot of other people have the same issue), but no response. Fyi I've used Roon software and its app and they perform perfectly together, but I prefer the audio quality via Audirvana. Still, this remote issue is potentially a dealbreaker.

I use the Audirvana Mac app to stream Qobuz (replacing Tidal) through an iMac to Audioengine A5+ and through an older Macbook Pro to adecent audio system. The sound quality for both setups is noticeably improved with Audirvana, and the recent improvements to the iOS remote app finally make it a match to the quality of the main Mac app that it is meant to control. The old version was adequate but clunky. The new one is easier to use, provides a much faster link to the computer (nearly instantaneous), and is notably better looking. Both the Mac and iOS apps are worth the cost if you value high-quality music.

I have been using Audirvana and the Audirvana remote app for years. As a software engineer I appreciate How well constructed both apps are. And as an audiophile I think the the combination produce the highest quality sound in my system that I have heard from a digital front end. But both apps (especially the remote) can be inconsistent. Sometimes The apps loose contact with the targeted playback hardware (DAC/ Ultrarendu). Sometimes while playing a song the index into the data stream gets corrupted and I get piercings white noise. Sometimes the database looses its coherence and I choose one song via the remote app but get another. Rebooting both Audirvana main apps usually clears this up.

Even with these short comings I would recommend this application.