The excuse to use a subscription model to help sustain future updates is ridiculous.Įasier navigation and better ways to organize playlists are basic features that should already exist and should not require members to pay for that.Īudirvana’s strong point is its sound quality and looks but its functionality is behind many others due to poor library management. The integrated streaming services still require me to purchase a tidal or qobuz subscription and is not a new feature as it was already in Audirvana 3.5. I have to pay monthly to play music I have already purchased. I don’t have the usage, but for people who need it, JRiver is also a powerfull video player and video library manager. I don’t remeber exactly how much it costs, but it is less than Audirvana. It has a very usefull formats converter (especially for DSF files.) It collects and displays lyrics, etc… For experience enhancement, it has an integrated browser that displays information about artists and discographies from insightful sites such as All Music, wikipedia and Amazon. It plays all formats played by Audirvana and also formats that Audorvana does not support (such as DSF-WV, a very useful format). JRiver has an excellent library manager, better than iTunes. And it costs something like 40€, if I remember correctly. It manages almost any music file format, and it plays them.įor playback, it is not in the category of Audirvana, but it’s better than iTunes. It has a search/replace feature for any tag. It can search in all tags simultaneously, including in lyrics. It’s like iTunes, but it is quick as the speed of light with huge libraries. Swinsian has an outstanding library management.