Amarra Play 4+
High Resolution Music Player
Sonic Studio
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Amarra Play brings the highest quality playback to your IOS device. Now providing access to your Qobuz account and soon your TIDAL account, Amarra Play is the app that brings you the tools to get the music you love right at your fingertips.
As a stand-alone app you'll enjoy:
• A free version to get superior sound for your audio files copied to your mobile device including FLAC files as well as your local Apple Music library. Spice it all up with a set of powerful EQ presets.
• Upgrade with the in-app purchase for MQA decoding, expand to a professional grade, customizable EQ and add access to your Qobuz and TIDAL accounts as well!
When used with Amarra Luxe, unlock the following features:
• Remote control of Amarra Luxe and Amarra sQ+ from Amarra Play. Relax, sit back and enjoy!
• Use Amarra Play to play your music on your IOS device
Download files to your IOS device (local files only)
Stream files to your IOS device (local, Qobuz and TIDAL files)
• Formats Supported
MQA Decode up to 96 kHz (Amarra Luxe license required)
AIFF, AIFC, MP3, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AAC, DSD->PCM real-time conversion
NOTE: Amarra Play must be running on same wireless network as computer.
Visit www.sonicstudio.com to get your free 15 day free trial of Amarra Luxe
What’s New
Version 1.32
- Regular application maintenance and bug fixing
Ratings and Reviews
Poor
To rival Apple Music and the remote app this app needs improving. Firstly doesn't always connect. Secondly unlike the Apple remote app whereby once you sign in your always signed in this app you have to constantly keep pairing it. Lastly when you laptop goes to sleep if you launch the remote Apple app it wakes up without having to touch the laptop. This app doesn't not do that you have to wake your laptop and then repair the app again. Please fix these issues
Just adequate
Bought this to patch the deficiency of the Onkyo HF player which can’t currently handle MQA files. As such Amarra Play works fine in this respect but certainly doesn’t look as polished (in fact it looks darn right amateur) and it’s handling of album art is abyssmal. Most of the albums currently within the app do not display the album art despite it being embedded or as an accompanying file. Sound handling is decent but it lacks a polished appearance.
UPDATE after two months - album art can easily corrupt and disappear.
Cannot successfully play gapless tracks. Apparently this is a long standing issue going back years and they still haven’t fixed it. I am therefore downgrading to one star. For all but basic playback of hi-res audio files I cannot recommend this app.
Good - if and when it works.
Ok, the app is dated, clunky, horrific for adding music and desperately in need of updating.
However, the codec support is excellent and when it works, in conjunction with an external DAC, produces excellent sound. Though you can thank the source files and external DAC for much of that.
Sadly, and the reason for only one star. I loaded half a dozen albums - a mix of standard FLAC, High Res FLAC, DSD, DSF and MQA and everything was what I hoped for. Skip forward a couple of weeks to when I finally had the time to add more albums - around 30 of them. And the App just constantly crashed at each and every launch.
No amount of reboots, uninstalling and reinstalling would fix this. It seems to be fine if you load albums then never again dare to add more. And this is on an iPhone 12 Pro Max running the latest iOS.
Maybe it’s different if you use their desktop app, but they haven’t inspired confidence in me to shell out for that. If I could get this useless app refund I would in a heartbeat.
I’d be glad to revisit the app if they fix the issues. Though as I’m uninstalling it, I probably won’t notice if they do.
In-App Purchases
App Privacy
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Data Not Linked to You
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- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- Sonic Studio LLC
- Size
- 80.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 7.2 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Sonic Studio, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Adds Qobuz, TIDAL, MQA and EQ £12.99
- EQ support £2.99
- Adds support for MQA decoding £3.99
- TIDAL Streaming £4.99
- Qobuz streaming support £4.99
Supports
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.