The N100 Owners Thread

zettelsm said:
Thank you, Joe. I believe I've read some of your posts over on What's Best. Where in ID, neighbor?

Steve
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Hi Steve,

Wish I was, actually that's the department I work in at my job, IDentification. I am on Long Island, in NY.
 
Steve - welcome! The Aurender is a terrific product. Such a joy to use and has none of that digital hash you get from a PC/Mac.

The app is also a pleasure to use with seamless Tidal integration.


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Re: New N100H owner

Hi Steve!

I think we have communicated now & then.

I have a question for you.

Can the Aurender automatically switch the recording selection's absolute polarity as Audirvana & Pure Music can? Since about half of of my recordings are inverted, this feature has become important to me.

Failing that, does the Aurender have a manual remote polarity inversion capability?

I was interested in the Antipodes, but they did not offer polarity switching per cut, automatic or manual.

Almost forgot - Welcome to Audio Shark!
 
Re: New N100H owner

Hi Jim,
I'll chime in to answer your question. No, the Aurender doesn't have polarity switching. If your DAC or your preamp has that feature that's one way to accomplish it.
 
Re: New N100H owner

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately, neither my ASR amp nor my DACs offer that function, hence my question.

Best,

Jim
 
Re: New N100H owner

zettelsm said:
Not having to run Aurender Music Manager other than the initial upload and whenever new music is added to my NAS is very nice
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I believe you have to rerun it whenever new firmware is loaded too, which isn't very often.
 
Re: New N100H owner

Jim Smith said:
Hi Steve!

I think we have communicated now & then.

I have a question for you.

Can the Aurender automatically switch the recording selection's absolute polarity as Audirvana & Pure Music can? Since about half of of my recordings are inverted, this feature has become important to me.

Failing that, does the Aurender have a manual remote polarity inversion capability?

I was interested in the Antipodes, but they did not offer polarity switching per cut, automatic or manual.

Almost forgot - Welcome to Audio Shark!
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Thank you Jim and the rest of the guys. Yes, we've talked and e-mailed in the past and I'm one of your TTSB supporters.

I see the others have jumped in and answered your question. I hadn't given it much thought before moving from Mac Mini to Aurender, I guess because I'm not very sensitive to absolute polarity issues. Maybe because so much of the music I listen to is all over the place in terms of recording and engineering.

But it's a good point and my preamp doesn't have a polarity inversion switch either.

Very best,

Steve
 
Some questions from someone who might be new to an Aurender N100H soon, and couldn't find enough answers earlier in this fine thread.
I am looking to switch from my Mac Mini dedicated music computer to an Aurender N100H machine. More details on my current system is in my signature below.

* Note that while I create and maintain my music files with iTunes, I use Audirvana Plus (not integrated with iTunes) as my music player. And I use Audirvana's Remote app on my iPad to control music playing.
* Note, too, that I maintain my music files on my work Macintosh, and then as I add new music, I simply copy the music files to my two separate Mac Mini music computers. This method always works for me, both for sound quality and metadata.

At this point, I'd like to know how I would do two related things:
(1) transfer all of my existing music files -- about 2100 albums and 30,000 files -- to the N100H's internal drive (no desire for a NAS)
(2) add new albums to the N100H's internal drive

To start, here's the state of my existing music files:
* all the music files are either ALAC or AIFF
* all the music files are lossless PCM, from 16/44.1 and higher resolution
* all the music files reside on an external SSD or HD, and I have several copies of those complete music libraries on other external drives
* all the music files take up less than 800GB of space
* all metadata, including album covers, is embedded into each file (all covers pasted manually)
* the only text metadata I use is Track Name, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Composer, Disc #, Track #
* when an album is a compilation, I have the compilation box checked "yes" and I put the term "Various" into the Album Artist field

So, from what I've researched so far, my understanding of how a migration to an Aurender N100H would work is as follows:
* Existing music files would be transferred by attaching one of my external music drives to one of the N100H's USB inputs.
But then, would I be using Aurender's Composer app or Aurender Media Manager or some other way to manager the transfer?
* New music files could be transferred one of two ways: with a USB device, such as a flash drive, attached to the N100H's USB input or by using my work Macintosh to connect to the N100H as another server on my network.
Is that correct? Is there something I'm missing?

I would greatly appreciate any other information about initial and subsequent ways to add music files to the N100H from a Macintosh.
And what else am I missing here?

Dave, who is new to Audio Shark but is has been a member of the Computer Audiophile forum for a few years now

P.S. After I wrote up this post, I found this earlier post in October. Seems to potentially answer my essential questions...is it that simple?
Arcade said:
Not sure why some people are trying to complicate this. I've always used iTunes to rip (AIFF format). It integrates perfectly with the Aurender. All you need to do is drop in the cover art file then upload the folder to the Aurender.

Are people having other issues with this (am I missing something)?
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Cycleman said:
Some questions from someone who might be new to an Aurender N100H soon, and couldn't find enough answers earlier in this fine thread.
I am looking to switch from my Mac Mini dedicated music computer to an Aurender N100H machine. More details on my current system is in my signature below.

* Note that while I create and maintain my music files with iTunes, I use Audirvana Plus (not integrated with iTunes) as my music player. And I use Audirvana's Remote app on my iPad to control music playing.
* Note, too, that I maintain my music files on my work Macintosh, and then as I add new music, I simply copy the music files to my two separate Mac Mini music computers. This method always works for me, both for sound quality and metadata.

At this point, I'd like to know how I would do two related things:
(1) transfer all of my existing music files -- about 2100 albums and 30,000 files -- to the N100H's internal drive (no desire for a NAS)
(2) add new albums to the N100H's internal drive

To start, here's the state of my existing music files:
* all the music files are either ALAC or AIFF
* all the music files reside on an external SSD or HD, and I have several copies of those complete music libraries on other external drives
* all the music files take up less than 800GB of space
* all metadata, including album covers, is embedded into each file (all covers pasted manually)
* the only text metadata I use is Track Name, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Composer, Disc #, Track #
* when an album is a compilation, I have the compilation box checked "yes" and I put the term "Various" into the Album Artist field

So, from what I've researched so far, my understanding of how a migration to an Aurender N100H would work is as follows:
* Existing music files would be transferred by attaching one of my external music drives to one of the N100H's USB inputs.
But then, would I be using Aurender's Composer app or Aurender Media Manager or some other way to manager the transfer?
* New music files could be transferred one of two ways: with a USB device, such as a flash drive, attached to the N100H's USB input or by using my work Macintosh to connect to the N100H as another server on my network.
Is that correct? Is there something I'm missing?

I would greatly appreciate any other information about initial and subsequent ways to add music files to the N100H from a Macintosh.
And what else am I missing here?

Dave, who is new to Audio Shark but is has been a member of the Computer Audiophile forum for a few years now

P.S. After I wrote up this post, I found this earlier post in October. Seems to potentially answer my essential questions...is it that simple?
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Dave, when you connect the N100H to your network, it will be assigned an IP Address. You find the specific IP address of your N100H in the Conductor app. Once you know the IP of your N100H, you map that drive to your network. Start to copy the files over.

This Quick Start Guide should give you a good over view as well: http://www.aurender.com/page/quickguide-server

Mike
 
Hello,

I have a new aurender n100h, but I'm having a problem to "see" the content of my NAS.
I used AMM, browsed for it, it shows up in the list, I can see it in the conductor app, but when navigating to it it doesn't show up any folder...
What am I missing? It shows only the albums stored in the internal 1TB SSD, but not my complete library stored in a Synology NAS.
The NAS isn't in the same room as the Aurender, does it have to be umbilically connected to it? Hum...
My setup is Aurender > USB to dac > Ethernet directly to the router.

help? :)
 
bluedoor said:
Hello,

I have a new aurender n100h, but I'm having a problem to "see" the content of my NAS.
I used AMM, browsed for it, it shows up in the list, I can see it in the conductor app, but when navigating to it it doesn't show up any folder...
What am I missing? It shows only the albums stored in the internal 1TB SSD, but not my complete library stored in a Synology NAS.
The NAS isn't in the same room as the Aurender, does it have to be umbilically connected to it? Hum...
My setup is Aurender > USB to dac > Ethernet directly to the router.

help? :)
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Well first of all; with the H...you don't need AMM.
 
Ok. What about the way for the N100 have access to the music stored in the NAS? Do they have to be directly connected to each other?
 
I have pointed the conductor app to the NAS, I've added manually the NAS (synology DS411 Slim) inserted user and psw.
The shared folder is visible within the FOLDERS navigation bar in conductor, but it shows no content at all...

It is very straightforward, but for some reason it doesn't update the music.

Somebody sent me this link: https://aurenderug.wordpress.com/settings/nas-server/ but it didn't help.
Before the N100 I used a macpro/JRiver setup with no problems at all pointing it to the NAS.

Any help is more than welcome CDLehner :)
 
bluedoor said:
I have pointed the conductor app to the NAS, I've added manually the NAS (synology DS411 Slim) inserted user and psw.
The shared folder is visible within the FOLDERS navigation bar in conductor, but it shows no content at all...

It is very straightforward, but for some reason it doesn't update the music.

Somebody sent me this link: https://aurenderug.wordpress.com/settings/nas-server/ but it didn't help.
Before the N100 I used a macpro/JRiver setup with no problems at all pointing it to the NAS.

Any help is more than welcome CDLehner :)
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Yeah, let me look into that for you. If memory serves...I might have had the same problem; and then there was an option, to scan metadata or something.
 
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