Bitperfect manual full#

However, when listening to playlists with tracks encoded at different sampling rates and/or bit depths, I switch to UAPP, whose equalizer is not nearly as good as PA's (and whose UI is much worse). Most of the time I use PA with its equalizer, which is very good. +1 to an 'Output Follows Source Formatting' mode that avoids resampling. The main time it would be an issue is during All Songs shuffle play, and it would be easy enough to add a second option to allow PA to disable the Format Following feature while shuffling random songs (if the user preferred it that way). Within any given album it's unlikely that the individual tracks would be encoded at different sampling rates or bit-depths anyway, so gapless would still work. I also think the resulting issues with crossfade and gapless may be a bit of a red-herring too. They more accurately want a no resampling mode. People who ask for it often maintain that they would prefer to use PA for all of its other features (such as the EQ) so they clearly are not interested in genuine bit-perfect reproduction which would prohibit any further digital manipulation of the audio path - so no gain/volume, EQ adjustment, crossfade, etc. This may help to keep complaints down if users experiment with the feature while wearing headphones! 🙄Īn 'Output Follows Source Formatting' mode would satisfy most of this type of request that I've seen in the forums. Perhaps one step further would be to have an indicator show up on the Now Playing UI to show that this mode is engaged. Pressing OK (or 'Are you really sure?') would then enable the feature, or 'Cancel' to back out without making the change.

Bitperfect manual full#

Plus I would suggest to further have some sort of second pop-up disclaimer indicating that volume control will be lost, and that the device will output full volume. There again should be a description at this setting that indicates which features may will work if enabled. This would be for those using Poweramp as a dedicated source only. Again crossfade would also need to be defeated in this mode.

Second would be to lock a true ' Bit Perfect' mode with no duck, EQ, or volume control influence. There should be a description at this setting that indicates which features may not work if enabled. But this should address the request for most that are asking for this IMO. In this mode, things like duck, EQ, and volume can still be used. So enabling this mode would force defeat the crossfade function. Note that in these cases, by definition cross fading between tracks with different rates and frequencies is not possible. So I would ask to have this addressed in two ways if/when an implementation arrives.įirst is to achieve a ' No Resample' mode to maintain bit depth and sample frequency while playing on any device. But there are also many that have external DAC solutions, where Poweramp and the user's device strictly become the source. I agree that for the general users that have requested ' bit perfect mode' that this may be the case.

They are generally more concerned about avoiding any frequency or bit-depth resampling, but they accept simple digital scale changes to adjust the listening level at the output stage.