Audirvana Remote

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.

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.

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.

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When the App properly connects to Audirvana it’s great to use, albeit a little sluggish. My problem is it will not reconnect after sleeping my phone 90% of the time and it reconnects just fine as soon as I restart the program on my laptop. Maybe there’s some communication issue over the network because I’m using the Windows Version which I know is new. Although my WiFi connection on both devices is fine. When using MonkeyMote with foobar2000 it works flawlessly. Audirvana may cost a lot less than Roon but it’s remote is actually less convenient most of the time.