New update to the app also displays what bit-depth and sample rate FLAC is playing. Before, if something had MQA in “Max,” a lot of albums would still be MQA in “High” quality. Nice to have confirmation it is just redbook FLAC for the stuff in “High” only now. “Max” now usually displays some variation of Hi-Res FLAC playing.
BitPerfect means that os dedicates audio to one app.. There is no mixing. I am kinda sold on it. There is more clarity and realness with BP.. Exp: Linux, Daphile , mac and so on. TBH, Linux sounded the best.. Android should sound similar since it runs the kernel flavour and probably similar audio modules.
The reason they havent added it, might be convinience. This isnt for your everyday folk, where everything must be on 24/7 .. There is a method to it.. They should have an advanced option for that.
@mediumroast The Tidal app for Windows at least does have an “Exclusive Mode” option that is equivalent to WASAPI Exclusive mode, which is part of the reason I use it.
Wasapi is ok but for some reason I never liked Wasapi.. There is some 0.5% sound difference there.. Maybe windows audio processing or something. Linux sounds better, and the dedicated sound servers like Daphile definitely sound better. Again.. It could be confirmation bias but thats me.
It isn't as clean/"direct" of a path as ASIO, for instance, but it bypasses the mixer and has less layers of abstraction than the rest of the Windows Audio subsystem. Still, yeah, it's not perfect or able to be finessed as much vs. what you can do with Linux or other solutions, agreed.
Doesn't "bit-perfect" mean that if one saved the digital output at some stage, it would be identical to the input? I think that some people actually demand this, but is it audio-phile or -phool?
But yes, better to avoid all those system mixers and such.
Even with Linux, many people prefer to avoid stuff like Pulse Audio.
I still do, regardless of what my ears can hear these days. Long ago I set up JACK and simply continue to use it.
Still, though, we are stuck with the fact that PCs are time-sharing machines, not real-time. And, without tweaking, video comes high in the priorities but audio is much lower.
(I used JACK because, back then, I had a firewire DAC and JACK was the only way to connect it. I *continued* to use JACK because I really like the patch-panel way of connecting up components like EQ. Yes, I could play direct to ALSA. Some applications, like my browser, play to ALSA and I connect that in JACK)
My favourite was DeadBeef, but I had some problems with it eventually. I forget what.
I just want players to be players, not a cross between a media-management system, a magazine, and a browser! Some make it hard to even just open a file in a directory and play it!
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