Audirvana Plus 2.0 launches...finally. Into the wild this week goes the long awaited, long rumoured, won’t-be-much-longer-till-it’s-ready, absolutely-definitely-coming-soon, okay-here-it-is version 2.0 of Audirvana Plus.
Say it with me: orrrdearrrrvarrrrna. Along for the ride comes a new logo and freshly decorated website home page that details developer Damien Plission’s ongoing commitment to memory play, bit-perfect playback, integer mode, SysOptimizer, and full DSD compatibility. Audirvana - OSX Audiophile player. Audirvana is an audiophile player for Mac OSX.
No equalizer, no trendy special effects, just the music Native playing of FLAC, libSndFile (WAV, AIFF, ...), ALAC and other quicktime formats (AAC, MP3, ...) Direct sound path, directly to the CoreAudio HAL for pure bit perfect sound Audio Device exclusive access mode HAL I/O using DAC native physical formats "Integer Mode" (instead of CoreAudio 32bit float) Automatic sample rate switching Up/Oversampling capability Plays completely from memory Tracks are loaded, decoded and sample rate converted in a memory buffer before being played Minimizing CPU and hard drive activity to lessen sources of interference Gapless playback by using a double buffering mechanism (playing track and next track) Transparent split load for loading tracks of any size Background tracks loading/decoding (including sample rate conversion) Playlist (m3u & m3u8 formats) load/save Handles Apple IR Remote Automated updates downloading (using Sparkle)
The Sound of your Dreams. Audirvana Plus.