Native DSD Support

[nautibuoy]

I'm a long time AssetUPnP user and have been really satisfied with the package.

My music library is totally FLAC but I now have a new DAC that supports DSD and I plan to buy some DSD recordings to find out just how good it is so it's disappointing to find out that Asset doesn't offer any support for the format.

I know this has come up before and there is a request for DSD on the wish list section; just wondering what the current plans are?

Thanks

Ray

[Spoon]

Re: Native DSD Support

You would need a compatible upnp renderer also (player).

[nautibuoy]

Re: Native DSD Support

You would need a compatible upnp renderer also (player).

My new DAC has a built in network renderer; it's a Beaglebone Black running this distribution:

http://bbb.ieero.com/

For control I overlay the renderer distro with this:

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/

I believe that means I have a DSD capable renderer.

I am also considering this renderer, which is also DSD capable:

http://www.abc-pcb.com/?page_id=192

Plans for AssetUPnP to support DSD?

Thanks

Ray

[Spoon]

Re: Native DSD Support

See:

http://dsd-guide.com/dop-open-standard

Here you encode the DSD file into a DOP wave or flac, and it is passed untouched to the dac which can decode.

[nautibuoy]

Re: Native DSD Support

See:

http://dsd-guide.com/dop-open-standard

Here you encode the DSD file into a DOP wave or flac, and it is passed untouched to the dac which can decode.

Thanks Spoon, that helps a lot.

So, I need the DSD Codec added to my dbpoweramp install and then use it to rip the downloaded DSD to wav or flac, which produces a DoP format file that AssetUPnP can handle and which gets decoded by my network renderer?

I have a fully-registered dbpoweramp install, currently version 14.3, do I need to update it?

Ray

[nautibuoy]

Re: Native DSD Support

Further to my earlier post, I see that I didn't need to upgrade my V14.3 install of dbPoweramp to use the DSD Codec, but I've just upgraded to V15.1 anyway.

Ray

Whoops, I forgot the previous post was awaiting moderator attention because I neglected to remove the link so this should be after my next post.

[Spoon]

Re: Native DSD Support

We currently do not have a codec which can do this, however it is right at the top of our list to develop.

[nautibuoy]

Re: Native DSD Support

OK, I'll keep watch, thanks Spoon.

Any working timetable for the development (not that I would try and hold you to it, just curious).

Ray