MAKE ITUNES PLAY BITPERFECT DRIVER

Most connected sound cards, USB and network connected DACS are limited to 96kHz 24 bits and so it is the responsibility of the interface driver to announce the restriction to the player so things are seamless. In either case you won’t get music at 192kHz 24 bits – you’ll get something less. If you are trying to play a 192kHz 24 bit file and your sound card, DAC or connected device doesn’t support that high sample rate (most don’t) then one of two things will happen: you’ll get nothing or you’ll get trouble. The problem you immediately run into is one of compatibility. I think we’ve shown that once any music player begins to actually play a track it most go somewhere to be heard: your computer’s sound card, a USB connected DAC, etc.

iTunes is set up to make sure the user experience is never in question and the net result of that, from a high-end perspective, is an unfortunate up and down sampling of all the music that passes through the program.

And who can blame them? Although it’s widely accepted that Steve Jobs himself was one of us and cared deeply about the way audio sounded in his home,Audiophiles make up only a tiny percentage of music lovers the world over. Here’s the deal: iTunes’ primary objective is to make playing music easy and to do that Apple sacrificed the ultimate fidelity that’s important to us Audiophiles. If you’ve managed to keep up with streaming audio in the magazines, you may have heard of these aftermarket programs that are add ons to iTunes – and since iTunes is the single most popular music management and playback program in the world – boasting tens of millions of users – one would question why anyone would spend money on adding an iTunes “helper” program like those I’ve just mentioned. Through our mini series on streaming audio we’ve learned how iTunes finds and plays a track on your hard drive but we haven’t yet learned why programs that circumvent iTunes, like Amarra, Pure Music and Bit Perfect exist at all.

Make itunes play bitperfect