I agree with gocubs999. Amarra 4 Luxe is terrible.
I have been using Amarra Symphony w/IRC and love the sound quality, so I was happy when Amarra 4 Luxe came out. Until I started using it. It is incredibly buggy. Here are a few examples I can think of at the moment:
- When you load your album library from iTunes, it fails to import the art for perhaps half of the albums, so they are all listed with the same default art.
- It also loads all of your podcasts, hundreds of episodes, with each episode as a separate album, leading to a huge number of non-album albums (but somehow got the art right for all of them). And you can’t delete them as a set -- you have to do them one at a time, each one taking several clicks.
- When you click on an album to see the tracks it contains, then go back to the album view, it goes back to the head of the list of albums, instead of to wherever you were in the list.
- While playing music, after a few songs one channel cuts out. The only way to fix it is to restart the app.
There were other issues as well. When I contacted Sonic Studios about the problems, I was told that they are "known issues". In my opinion, they are not "issues", they are fatal flaws. The software is not ready for release. And even if all of these problems were fixed, the music library interface is clunky and unpleasant to use. I strongly prefer the iTunes interface and would prefer that Amarra focus on improving sound quality and leave the library management to the competent professionals at Apple
On the plus side, if you can get past these issues, find the album you want, and get it to play through two channels, it sounds great.
I have been using Amarra Symphony w/IRC and love the sound quality, so I was happy when Amarra 4 Luxe came out. Until I started using it. It is incredibly buggy. Here are a few examples I can think of at the moment:
- When you load your album library from iTunes, it fails to import the art for perhaps half of the albums, so they are all listed with the same default art.
- It also loads all of your podcasts, hundreds of episodes, with each episode as a separate album, leading to a huge number of non-album albums (but somehow got the art right for all of them). And you can’t delete them as a set -- you have to do them one at a time, each one taking several clicks.
- When you click on an album to see the tracks it contains, then go back to the album view, it goes back to the head of the list of albums, instead of to wherever you were in the list.
- While playing music, after a few songs one channel cuts out. The only way to fix it is to restart the app.
There were other issues as well. When I contacted Sonic Studios about the problems, I was told that they are "known issues". In my opinion, they are not "issues", they are fatal flaws. The software is not ready for release. And even if all of these problems were fixed, the music library interface is clunky and unpleasant to use. I strongly prefer the iTunes interface and would prefer that Amarra focus on improving sound quality and leave the library management to the competent professionals at Apple
On the plus side, if you can get past these issues, find the album you want, and get it to play through two channels, it sounds great.