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Add quick pause option to use old style simple silence pattern. Add short buffer option to use half size FIFOs for reduced delay. Bug fixes and small GUI improvements.

New pseudo-multibit AMSDM7EC modulator for certain DACs at x512 rates and above. Bug fixes and component updates. CUDA support discontinued on macOS.

New sinc-L filter and bug fixes. On macOS access to audio inputs is requested immediately at application startup time. Merging RAVENNA verified on Windows and macOS.

Fixes regression in minimum phase filter initialization. Add splitter between pipeline and postprocess in matrix dialog. Small fixes.

Add support for ReplayGain 2.0 metadata specification, album gain can be applied when loaded in album mode, in playlist mode track gain can be applied. Add new sinc-S filter. Add PlayNextURI and SetAdaptiveVolume methods to the control API. Improve algorithm to combine multiple convolution filters. Parallelization consistency improvements. Bug fixes.

Support for chaining multiple convolution filters. Support for changing convolution algorithm and HF-expansion in pipeline matrix. Post-process support in pipeline matrix, with Bauer headphone cross-feed. Various metadata handling fixes. Component updates, small bug fixes and improvements.

Change output stream start/stop handling. Metadata handling fixes.

Error and warning log entries are now shown on status bar in the main window. Improved cover flow and artist list sorting in client. Improved handling of detached cover art when scanning library. Improved parallelized DSD conversions. Improved thread management. Input handling improvements. Support disc numbers in metadata. Small bug fixes and improvements.

Improve Direct SDM indication towards clients, support relative paths in playlist files, add invert, random and repeat functions to the Client. Number of small improvements and fixes.

Support for NAA protocol version 4, including inputs. Metadata handling improvements, including support for composer as a separate tag and rework ID3v2 mappings. Improved search flexibility and fixes in Client. New 15th order linear PCM noise shaper designed specifically for 16x output rates. Various bug fixes.

Small CPU core allocation tunings and fixes.

Component updates and bug fixes. Also includes further fine tuning of core allocations.

Bug fixes and component updates.

Various small fixes and updates.

Fix failure on input device definition without explicit channel count. macOS package is now notarized for Catalina. Ubuntu packaging updates. Debian Buster package build of Client for 32/64-bit ARM (armhf/arm64).

New poly-sinc-long filters to fill the gap between poly-sinc and poly-sinc-xtr/ext2. Added support for CD playback on macOS. Support for matrix pipeline configuration profiles that can be switched remotely. New stream buffering implementation for Roon and other streaming sources. NAA protocol handling fixes. CPU core allocation improvements with better SMT support. Various fixes and component…

EC modulator optimizations, CPU core allocation optimizations. Volume management fixes for Direct SDM.

Three new very high accuracy modulator variants added. Improved search functionality in Client. Various bug fixes and component updates.

Various bug fixes and usability improvements. Also includes improved NAA connectivity. Control API fixes and improvements.

Fixes a glitch when starting playback using DoP with ALSA backend on Linux. Package version 3.25.4-86, please reload product page and download new package.

Component updates, fixes and small improvements.

Various bug fixes and usability improvements.Note! Changes to DirectSDM behavior with volume control, please check your settings and volume!

Various bug fixes and usability improvements.

Fixes control interface connectivity issue in certain cases.

Maintenance period will last at least for a year.

New client-server model with a separate client/control application. Server side graphical interface has been streamlined. Support for realtime audio inputs. Support for separate filter selection for 1x source rates and higher rates. Client application can be also used with HQPlayer Embedded. Various improvements to the control API. Upgrade discount coupon codes available for existing customers of HQPlayer…

Fixes regression in ALSA format selection on Linux. Package version 3.25.3-84, please reload product page and download new package.

Support for IPv6 NAA connections on macOS. Support for linear gain scale factors in pipeline matrix, including negative factors for phase inversion, allowing creation of various stereo multichannel matrix encode/decode, such as M/S stereo. More flexible output format selection to allow use of 16-bit output formats to reach higher sampling rates on macOS for example.…

Bug fix and component update release. Fixes number of bugs, including some crashes.

Updates DSD-to-DSD rate conversion algorithm. Fixes regression where matrix initialization fails without convolution filter.

Option for extracting embedded cover art when detached cover art is missing. Small user interface improvements. Support for CUDA 10 and new GPU hardware variants (requires latest drivers). On Linux this is first release built for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). Menu options for removing license key and clearing data. Number of bug fixes.

Two new filters, poly-sinc-ext2 with special two stage design for SDM output and sinc-M one million tap sinc-filter. Old “sinc” filter has been renamed to more descriptive “ASRC”. Optimizations to CIC integrator for lower CPU load. New control interface methods to switch between time display modes.

New “mega” variants of closed-form filter with one million taps for PCM and 16 million taps for SDM, these filters work great on GPUs too. Updated GPU support and some other minor updates.

Added support for custom “ALBUMARTIST” tag in FLAC. Improved search with track names. Fixed problem running Linux version on AMD CPUs.

Improved usability of touch interface for mouse use with view flick zones on edges and scroll bar on the cover flow, all together with a small facelift. Setting multicore DSP to enabled now goes full-on with all cores allowing small experimental tuning versus core allocation of auto-mode when operating on the edge of CPU capabilities.…

Both touch and desktop interface can now be kept visible simultaneously when full-screen mode is disabled. CUDA framework update to version 9.2, requires latest display drivers. Various performance optimizations and tunings.

Small bug fixes and performance optimizations.

Small user interface tweaks, support for date metadata for remote control applications, update “invisible” metadata on rescan and number of bug fixes.

Fixes regression with certain types of impulse response WAV files for convolution engine. Adds more metadata fields to the library data for control API purposes.

Fixes and improvements in the control API. CUDA updates and tunings, now it is also possible to offload only convolution engine. Other small improvements and fixes.

Fixes regression on handling 64-bit floating point WAV files. Also fixes closed-form filter misbehavior on certain GPU configurations (1080Ti). Cleans up filter, dither/modulator and rate settings when automatic output mode switching is used, this also cleans up the reported status information towards control applications.