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Perhaps I need to rephrase my question. Anyone know the filing structure in Apple Music v14.5.36 in Sonoma v14.5 when attempting to consolidate files? Originally all my music was in a file called "Zen Trax" on my external hard disc. Somehow my iTunes folder got split into 3 folders: Zen Trax Automatically Add To Music Music There are albums that have some tracks in the "Zen Trax" folderwith the rest in "Music" folder. Any tips on how to get everything into one folder?

Chris, I just plugged my Yottamaster into my new MacBookAir running Sonoma 14.5 and... both the source disc and the target disc appeared on my desktop (with exactly the same name of course!) The only way to work out which was which was to use COMMAND+I on each one and to look at the date of "last modified" ie the target disc being modified at a later date than the source disc. I am sure when I got the yottamaster only the the source disc appeared on my desktop (and that's what the instruction manual says as well.) Have you experienced this?

My Set Up So I have a hard disc plugged directly into my Auralic Aries. All my music is in a folder called "Zen Trax" on the hard disc. My hard disc is called "iansen music 2024 external ssd". I control the music using Auralic's Lightning DS App. Previously (ie before my new MacBookAir running Sonoma 14.5): I was using iTunes on an old MacBookPro. To add tracks I would just open iTunes on my MacBookPro, ensure in my settings that the music library was pointed to the "Zen Trax" folder on my hard disc, and then import the tracks. I could do this either from my laptop with the hard disc connected to the Auralic Aries ie wirelessly (which was quite slow) or by connecting the hard disc directly to my laptop ie wired (which was much faster). I would have to "refresh" the Auralic Aries App so that it showed the newly imported tracks. Now (using Apple Music on my new MacBookAir running Sonoma 14.5): So I connected my hard disc to my MacBookAir, in Apple Music >> Settings >> Music Media Folder Location I chose /iansen music 2024 external ssd/Zen Trax. (At least I think I did this!) I then tried importing the new tracks. I plugged the hard disc back into Auralic Aries... and hundreds of albums have been split into two. Looking at my external hard disc I can see there are three folders: Zen Trax Automatically Add To Music Music There's about 900GB in "Zen Trax" and about 900GB in "Music". I can see that some albums have some tracks in the "Zen Trax" folder, and others in the "Music" folder, and this splitting of tracks of an album corresponds with how they show up in the Auralic App as two albums. So it's not a metadata issue, but a file location issue. (In the Apple Music App - for those albums where the tracks are split into the two different folders - its not showing as two albums...) Any suggestions on how to merge the tracks in the two folders?

Thanks for the answers Chris, much appreciated.

Chris, I have a couple of questions. 1. You only formatted one of the discs (the original source disc and not the target disc, to use Yottamaster's terminology). How come you did not format both of them? If, for example, the source disc breaks down and you want to get the data off the target disc... will your laptop be able to read it? (PS I am using an Apple Mac) 2. When you press the clone button, do you disconnect the device from your streamer? I ask this because the instructions on the Amazon UK site states: "Please do not connect the device to your computer while cloning". http:// https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yottamaster-Duplicators-Stand-alone-Dual-Bay-Enclosure-M-2-NVMe-Offline-Clone/dp/B08SBP5VGG/ref=dp_fod_2?pd_rd_w=SN3w5&content-id=amzn1.sym.00102682-bcae-4419-9da3-260a1a6f5fd0&pf_rd_p=00102682-bcae-4419-9da3-260a1a6f5fd0&pf_rd_r=1Q0ENC1CS0ZA0MPK6GY6&pd_rd_wg=i6hAP&pd_rd_r=19bd218e-b048-429b-95b7-052f717fd3d0&pd_rd_i=B08SBP5VGG&psc=1

Brilliant find, Chris. You're right to have been over-excited about it. Solid state disc with its own power supply (and so not drawing power off my streamer), super-simple one-touch off-line back up, and housed in an elegant enclosure: perfect.

I should have been more clear: I use iTunes, but a lot of tracks in my library have been imported from compact disc. I agree that Spotify, TIDAl and Qobuz have a lot of stuff, and they are getting better. But I listen to a lot of Detroit Techno, UK Jungle and Jamaican dub, and the three genres are woefully under-represented...

I tried this. I put the playlists in the same folder as all the music. But I don't think Auralic's server software - Lightning Server - can read them...

I have a hard disc (with all my music on it) directly connected to an Auralic Aries Femto. I previously used iTunes and have a large number of playlists that I want to transfer over and access via Auralic's Lighnting DS app. I don't subscribe to Spotify, Qubuz and Tidal (as they don't have a lot of the tracks in my Library) so I can't use convertors (eg Soundiiz) to transfer iTunes playlists into one of those streaming services. Is there any way to import iTunes playlists into Auralic Lightning DS? Or do I have to do something like subscribe to ROON, import the playlists into ROON, abandon Lightning DS and use ROON instead?

Finally biting the bullet and moving away from iTunes via an Apple Laptop to Lightning DS via an Auralic Aries. My current set up is: a Lacie hard disk connected to an Apple Airport Time Capsule, streaming wirelessly to a MacBookPro; the MacBookPro using iTunes into a Schiit Yggdrassil via USB. The hard disk has about 1GB of music, all in Apple Lossless format. So my question is: Any tips on preparing my music library before plugging it in the Auralic Aries? (I’m thinking about things like: using Doug’s Apps to “Embed Artwork”, and/or to “Save Album Art To Album Folder”; what to do about the metadata for compilations etc) Any recommendations appreciated.

There's a nice interview with electronic artist Robert Henke aka Monolake about having no compression on his album "Silence". OK, he's not exactly the type of massive artist (outside of the rareified confines of minimal techno) whom Chris wishes would step forwards http://www.carosnatch.com/2010/02/monolake-interview-producing-an-album-with-no-compression/ But in another interview, he actually says "I'm not willing to take part in that race for loudness anymore, because it is so damn redundant at the end of the day. Each amplifier has a volume knob." http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html

Interestingly, we had a conversation similar to this on ComputerAudiophile back in 2008. The conversation was swiftly (and somewhat ruthlessly) gunned down by various technical replies - perhaps because I erronously referred to "upscaling" and its effects, when I should have perhaps referred to interpolation software and its effects. But the basic consideration of that 2008 post remains valid: the effect of predictive algorhythms "filling in" information which isn't actually there...

Observations In his article “Computer Audiophile Turns 10 Today” Chris Connaker, the founder of Computer Audiophile, noted of Apple USB ports: "April 11, 2008 - A USB Port is Not a USB Port - So, what is the deal? Apple's design of the USB architecture in MacBook/Pro models is flawed in my opinion." We have recently witnessed the rise of an understanding of the need to clean up the signal when feeding DACs via USB from computers: this forum is filled with solutions. From my experience, using an Audioquest Jitterbug into various DACS (when fed from my MacBookPro via USB) has, on all occasions, noticeably improved the sound. Questions So I am wondering: - In relation to USB output, are some Apple machines “cleaner” than other Apple Machines? (So, for example, does a MacMini provide a cleaner USB output than a MacBook Pro?) - For machines that have more than one USB output: I know I am able to access information on the USB ports from About This Mac/ System Report. But once accessed how would I determine which port is "cleaner"? - Have any of you hardcore Mac Heads done any comparisons on the USB outputs of your Macs? Or compared Macs?

Hi Solstice380, In his review of the Yggdrasil in The Absolute Sound, Robert Harley states: "...Moffatt selected an unusual DAC—a 20-bit R/2R ladder device from Analog Devices (the AD5791)...." It may be that I am getting confused with my terminology, but from this I came to the assumption that the Yggdrassil is a R2R ladder DAC.

To date, the best DAC that's been in my system has been a R2R DAC: the Schiit Yggdrasil. It's an unusual machine: it takes a few days to warm up aka thermally stabilise and during this warm up period the sound changes noticeably. Also (as per the designer's own comments on another forum) it sounds better on the balanced outputs rather than standard RCA phono outputs. The best CD player that I have heard was the Marantz CD94. For many years I attributed its amazing sound to its use of the legendary TD1541 chip. But it was also a R2R machine, so that may have had something to do with it as well. Yes, I think the Yggdrasil is great - the DACS I have been through include ones made by Linn, Stello, Musical Fidelity, Naim and Chord, and the Yggdrasil betters all of them.