Mac Mini issues with DSD

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  1. Claud

    Claud Living the ORFAS dream

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    I have been using a Cord 2Cute DAC with my Mac Mini for a while with Audirvana Plus with no perceived problems. Mac Mini is a year old and fast. Yesterday I swapped out my Cord DAC for a Matrix X-Sabre Pro MQA. Now I can see the output from my computer and all I get is PCM. I am playing a digital DSD test file I got at HD Trax. So I got DSD until it gets to the DAC.
    How do I get DSD to my new fancy DAC?
    Another problem is multiple or repeat songs on my digital albums. The songs are repeated after an original plays so each song is there twice, one after another. How do I clean this up so albums just have the songs once. Do I create another file and pull the doubles one by one to the new file???
    HELP!!
     
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    Please take a look into audirvana config. You have to select dsd over pcm.
    About multiple songs... that I cannot help

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    Thank you David. I had forgot about the Audirvana Plus "preferences". That part is working now. Now I need to clean up those double files.
     
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    Let the record show that I figured it out myself. It was an Audirvana Plus thing. I just had to find out where the album went when I deleted a song, then restore the album song by song and presto!!
     
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    I moved my Audirvana 3+ from a MBP to a Mac Mini recently. All the music resides on two external SSD's. Somehow I managed to get multiple copies of the same albums.

    I was hoping there was a fix within Audirvana but can not find this feature. I've tried resynching the data base with hope it would do a clean up for me. Looks like I'll have to spend some hours doing clean up on Aisle 3 to fix it.
     

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