Bitperfect support software#
Bitperfect support plus#

Bitperfect support software#

If it does not, it will play the PCM content (as in fact will any other playback software that supports Apple Lossless). So if the audio output device supports DSD, BitPerfect will play it natively. However, it also contains a hidden copy of the native DSD file, and when BitPerfect is controlling playback it can read this DSD content and, if the audio output device supports DSD, will play it back in its native DSD format.

It can be imported into iTunes (and any other software that supports ALAC) and will play normally like any other Apple Lossless file, with or without BitPerfect. A Hybrid-DSD file is an Apple Lossless file. This is an extension of the Apple Lossless file format. Our solution involves the introduction of a new file format we term “Hybrid-DSD”. At BitPerfect, we have never liked the path down which proxy files lead us. And then all these users need an element of “training” so as to know which version is to be played on which system. These each have to be carefully labelled so as to enable every user to identify which is which. In this case your music database will contain duplicate versions of all of your DSD tracks - the DSD originals represented by proxy files, and the PCM conversions.

Again, this works fine, but has limitations. This PCM version can be loaded into the iTunes database, and playback systems which do not support DSD can play this version instead. The solution to this is to use a converter App to make a PCM version of the DSD original. Only playback systems that support DSD will be able to play music from proxy files everyone else will hear only silence. Many installations use the same music database to serve multiple playback systems within the same home network. Proxy files work fine, but they have limitations. But if instead the proxy file’s related player plays the file, it is able to follow the link to the original DSD file and play that instead. If iTunes tries to play the file, all it plays is silence.

Bitperfect support plus#

Proxy files are typically Apple Lossless files which contain highly-compressed digital silence of the exact same duration as the desired DSD file, plus a link to the location of the related DSD file. The preferred solution adopted by others to date has been the use of proxy files. When it comes to DSD, though, this does present a problem, since iTunes does not recognize DSD files and will not import them. Either way, it has been a popular approach for BitPerfect, with over 20,000 active users worldwide. Many users appreciate this paradigm, either because they like iTunes, or because they have grown comfortable with it and prefer not to change.

BitPerfect supports DSD playback in a new and unique way.īitPerfect uses the iTunes App as both its music database manager and command/control interface. The biggest new feature of BitPerfect v2.0 is its ability to support DSD playback. The new version introduces DSD playback support, but also incorporates a new and improved 3rd-Generation 64-bit audio engine, and has support for future plug-in features. BitPerfect Sound Inc is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of its music player for Mac, BitPerfect.