To my ears it sounds fantastic, however I’m finding that my growing collection of hi res music is significantly advancing my plans for upgraded or additional storage!
#Hi res audio player mac mac#
I have iTunes remote installed on my phone, iPad and Apple Watch and I can use any of them to skip to the next song without going to the keyboard, it runs as a headless system once I’ve logged on to the Mac and started Music running. The Mac sends its signal via the optical headphone jack to my DAC, and Bitperfect changes the Mac audio out setting automatically to match the sample rate of the song I’m listening to.
#Hi res audio player mac 320kbps#
Good luck.Ĭlick to expand.I use a 2014 Mac mini to play my collection in iTunes/Apple Music (a mix of hi res, lossless cd rips and 320kbps rips, in addition to the stuff I don’t own but have added to my library in Apple Music) and it’s perfect for me. Maybe look at pre-owned to get something a little higher end. $200 might get you started with an external DAC. It also accepts freeware plug ins for balance, tone controls, etc. It plays DSD, not something I bother with. It can manage your files in it's proprietary library, or interface with your iTunes library. Itunes streams everyting at 16/44 or 16/48, and will downsample your hi-res files accordingly, but no such limitation with a hardwired connection to an external DAC or amp using the USB-C to USB-B cable, if you do what says.įor critical listening, I use Audirvana. To do this, I have Aiport Express wifi receivers plugged into my other stereos. I use iTunes with AirPlay when I want to stream my music to multiple rooms simultaneously. I have tried most of the music players for Mac.
This also the CD ripper of choice to copy CD's to your hard drive (did I mention it's free).Īn external HD is the an excellent way to store your music, in fact you should have more than one for redundant backup of your library. You can use XLD, a freeware ripper/transcoding app for Mac, to convert FLAC files to AIFF, ALAC, WAV, ACC MP3, etc. I've looked here and googled some of this stuff, but the info is a few years old and things change pretty quickly.Īpple iTunes plays most PCM formats except FLAC, including 24/192. But do I need to figure out if I need DSD or MQA for my DAC? At this time I don't plan to stream high res, but I eventually may want to try Apple if they go high res or Amazon HD. I'm used to seeing high res listed as 24/96 or 24/192, and the High Res files I already have are like that. Are those used with computers, is that something I should think about? Or are those more for if you're putting a CD/SACD/BluRay into the DAC?
But some DACs also have coax and optical inputs. Most DACs have USB-B, so I was going to get a cord for that, a USB-C to B, and for streaming from my phone an iPhone to USB cord. What's a good player to manage my stuff and listen to from my macbook? I'm thinking of keeping my MP3/AAC stuff in Apple Music, and using a new player for Lossless/HighRes, but would like as many of those features as possible - tagging, playlists, playcounts, etc.Īny difference between playing stuff from an external harddrive through my mac to the DAC, vs putting it directly on my mac and not using the external? I assume it's the same? I know iTunes/Apple Music can't do high res. So, I'm still researching $200 DACs but some questions: I have FLAC and WAV lossless stuff as well from downloads and CD rips, and also would use the DAC for my old 320 mp3s and AACs from iTunes. I have some high res audio downloaded from a few years ago, some 24/192. Now I have the itch to get a DAC and start listening to stuff from my macbook. A few years ago stopped that, went to vinyl and apple music for streaming, and still use iTunes for my old MP3/AAC collection. Since 2001 or so I've been ripping mp3s for my ipod.
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