I'm using abbreviations but i'm not satisfied with. It makes the task very hard and tedious ! Sometimes it's simply impossible in French.
Try to enjoy your hi-res music with hifi dedicated portable players or headphone, and you’re in for a wild ride.I've started some translations in french, and the lack of room is THE problem (in the dialog box). However, it is gaining in popularity and is especially useful for audiophiles who want to listen to their FLAC digital music library without having to first convert.ĭigital Audio Players feel at home with pretty much any audio format.
WAV (hi-res): Files come mostly in an uncompressed (and therefore lossless) state normally encoded in the LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulation) format.WMA (hi-res): Probably the second most commonly supported audio format for DAPs after the MP3 standard.MQA ( hi-res,Master Quality Authenticated) A backward-compatible lossless codec that applies a digital fingerprint to a file to guarantee it was sourced from the original master recording.MP3 (not hi-res): Undoubtedly the de facto standard digital audio format that all DAPs support.DSD files come in several ‘resolution densities’ and the highest resolution currently used commercially is the DSD512 (Octa-DSD), which samples audio of rates up to 22.5792 MHz, which is 512 times the audio quality of a regular CD. It’s definitely not something you have to use if you buy a DAP, but it sure is nice to have one- iBasso DX220 supporting DSD. DSD (hi-res,Direct Stream Digital).It has of recent become the benchmark for high definition sound- mainly for audiophiles with extremely high-resolution libraries.
AptX (hi-res) A near-CD-quality audio codec supported by some Bluetooth devices.APE (hi-res) A free and very efficient lossless codec from Monkey’s Audio.ALAC (hi-res,Apple Lossless Audio Codec) Commonly used by iOS devices.It is lossless and uncompressed (so big file sizes), but not hugely popular. AIFF (hi-res): Apple's alternative to WAV, with better metadata support.Most songs purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store also come in this format. AAC(not hi-res): Apple's lossy audio compression system that is the default format for products such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.Along with ALAC, FLAC, and DSD which are popular lossless audio codecs, the common types of digital audio formats often supported by audio-only DAP's include: We do quote the highest possible values - in some cases, those can be as high as 768 kHz, which is seventeen times the density of a CD uncompressed audio (44.1kHz)!Īudio encoding keeps evolving.
You could also record higher-quality audio at, say, 24bit/192kHz, which means that the software is sampling the music 192,000 times every second, and is able to draw on 24 bits of information to accurately describe it. The audio you hear on a regular CD, or on a standard Spotify stream, is 16bit/44.1kHz. Audio bitrate quality is quite like megapixels in digital cameras - the higher the bit depth and sample rate, the more high-quality an audio file is. Not only are all of these handled natively (without the need of conversion) but each of them can be encoded at different bitrates.
We recommend that you look for a player that supports, at a minimum, ALAC, DSD, and FLAC files since those are the most common codecs that high-resolution download sites use. Selecting a high-res DAP or headphones can be daunting if you don't know about audio format with different Sample Rate And Bit Depth.Īudio formats support is very important for audio products, especially for players.