Taiko Audio SGM Extreme : the Crème de la Crème

[ACHiPo]

Ac

Actually, there's a program called Bliss that can automatically fix inconsistencies based on predefined preferences and naming conventions. The last time I used it was when I wrote a brief article for it in 2013, but if anything, it's probably gotten even better since then.

https://www.blisshq.com/download.html.

Bliss

Super-handy Music Library Tagging Program

www.hifi-advice.com

PS: I find that jRiver Media Center also works very well for metadata tagging and with no limitations with respect to file format. It even tags WAV and AIFF.

Christiaan,
My library looked fine with Roon, but is a mess with TAS (meta data missing, no cover art, etc.). Is it worth buying the unlimited Bliss license to clean up the files on my Extreme forTAS, or should I just wait for XDMS? Will Bliss have any negative impact on the Extreme performance?
Evan

 

[Nils]

True story. I know it is a bit weird and maybe TMI. Dreamt last night my system was set up in the backyard of my parent's house where I grew up. Wind was blowing and leaves had piled up all around the rack, components and speakers. I was frantically trying to rake it carefully. Then Emile shows up. I was devastated he would not hear the system at its best. He calmly pulls over this ancient lawn chair to the sweet spot and assures me it sounds good with a subtle nod. Now if that is not neurotic. Needless to say I did not tell my wife.

Shows just how serious this hobby is!

 

[oldmustang]

Shows just how serious this hobby is!

Hobby, or disease?

Steve Z

 

[steve williams]

Hobby, or disease?

Steve Z

Be kind and call it an "affliction"

 

[Downtheline]

Genetic syndrome with variable penetrance

 

[microstrip]

True story. I know it is a bit weird and maybe TMI. Dreamt last night my system was set up in the backyard of my parent's house where I grew up. Wind was blowing and leaves had piled up all around the rack, components and speakers. I was frantically trying to rake it carefully. Then Emile shows up. I was devastated he would not hear the system at its best. He calmly pulls over this ancient lawn chair to the sweet spot and assures me it sounds good with a subtle nod. Now if that is not neurotic. Needless to say I did not tell my wife.

I do not see any problem. If you had dreamed that Emile had installed XDMS in your Extreme, then wake up would probably need proper accompaniment ...

 

[cat6man]

Will any demo rooms include the Extreme at the NY audio show in September?

 

[Rhapsody]

Will any demo rooms include the Extreme at the NY audio show in September?

I think the NY Audio show has a total of 16 rooms. Embarrassing. To my knowledge the Extreme will not be presented, but not 100% sure of that.

 

[Christiaan Punter]

That's it then, no leading zero.
Now, that is true of much of my music and would be a PIA to deal with.

@Ed
XMDS will be smart enough to deal with and without leading zeros, right?

XDMS will have no issues with track order. It will work correctly whether or not the track numbers of the physical files or the metadata are padded with a zero.

 

[Christiaan Punter]

Christiaan,
My library looked fine with Roon, but is a mess with TAS (meta data missing, no cover art, etc.). Is it worth buying the unlimited Bliss license to clean up the files on my Extreme forTAS, or should I just wait for XDMS? Will Bliss have any negative impact on the Extreme performance?
Evan

I would not recommend keeping Bliss installed on the Extreme. If so, only use it temporarily and then uninstall it. But even better would be running it on another computer that looks at the Extreme's Samba share, or, even better still, a local backup copy of the music files. After letting Bliss do its thing, you can then check if all is well first, before handing it all over to the Extreme.

 

[ACHiPo]

I would not recommend keeping Bliss installed on the Extreme. If so, only use it temporarily and then uninstall it. But even better would be running it on another computer that looks at the Extreme's Samba share, or, even better, a local backup copy of the music files. After letting Bliss do its thing, you can then check if all is well first, before handing it all over to the Extreme.

Thanks. That makes sense.

 

[cat6man]

I think the NY Audio show has a total of 16 rooms. Embarrassing. To my knowledge the Extreme will not be presented, but not 100% sure of that.

That is sad. I was looking forward to going to a good show but I think I'll wait for canjam in February.

 

[dminches]

Streaming is being discussed in another thread. I was wondering if the anyone on the Taiko team would care to comment.

Sonic degradation occurs when within an album, one track transit to the next subsequent track. All subsequent tracks remain degraded from the moment on.

 

[Taiko Audio]

Streaming is being discussed in another thread. I was wondering if the anyone on the Taiko team would care to comment.

Sonic degradation occurs when within an album, one track transit to the next subsequent track. All subsequent tracks remain degraded from the moment on.

That‘s going to need some context and/or a direct link to the post.

 

[dminches]

That‘s going to need some context and/or a direct link to the post.

Bernie Grundman tells it like it is----great video---lots to unpack

saw this 2 hour and 25 minute video (it flies by :p ) and felt it needed to be posted. put it on the MoFi thread then Ron suggested it needed it's own thread as it covers lots of subjects. especially 1:17 to 1:27 gets into analog and digital and the effects. speaks strongly to my preference for...

www.whatsbestforum.com

 

[Taiko Audio]

Bernie Grundman tells it like it is----great video---lots to unpack

saw this 2 hour and 25 minute video (it flies by :p ) and felt it needed to be posted. put it on the MoFi thread then Ron suggested it needed it's own thread as it covers lots of subjects. especially 1:17 to 1:27 gets into analog and digital and the effects. speaks strongly to my preference for...

www.whatsbestforum.com

I do not care to comment

 

[microstrip]

I do not care to comment

Fortunately!

 

[seatrope]

@EuroDriver or @Taiko Audio - quick question re XDMS. I'm re-ripping all my SACD ISOs with an updated sacd_extract (Euflo's) and there are a couple of options to reduce the likelihood of clicks/pops between tracks. Hopefully the horizon will also fix the majority of that when it arrives, but:

- Does XDMS support ID3v2.4 tags? The author says:
" with minimal ID3V2.4 tags (id3tag=5 option), here the benefit is using syncsafe integers (of ID3 frame size) which will not interfere with audio data stream"

Any downside to using ID3v2.4 or should I stick to ID3v2.3?

 

[EuroDriver]

Windows Version of XDMS App

You can listen to XDMS and work on your PC at the same time

 

[steve williams]

Windows Version of XDMS App

You can listen to XDMS and work on your PC at the same time

View attachment 97456

For those of us who don't own a PC I think we would rather listen to XDMS in our sound rooms taking it all in


TAS app expires in 25 days