by regnaD kciN » Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:26 pm
DSF is not supported by MediaMonkey.
...which, at the risk of ranting, is why Ventis Media is shooting itself in the foot in a way that I fear will be the undoing of MediaMonkey. I've been a paid MM user for a long time, and it has been my program of choice since I first started ripping my music collection to FLAC many years (and several computers) ago. I'd love to keep using it -- but, last year, I shelled out again for JRiver, and now use that almost exclusively. Why? Because I had accumulated a decent collection of DSD files and a DSD-compatible DAC, and wanted to be able to play those files natively from within my media-library manager of choice instead of having to fire up a different piece of software for them or going through the hassle of converting them to 24/88. JRiver does this. Foobar2000 -- for free! -- does this. Even the latest iteration of Logitech Media Server/Squeezebox (also free) does this. So why are the folks behind MM so dead-set against it? As much as I was a devoted user of MM, should I be asked today by a friend for advice in setting up a system like mine, I could not in good conscience recommend a product that was PCM-only. If I were getting started today, I wouldn't even consider MM for that reason...and, I suspect, lots of other potential customers will be reaching that decision in the years to come.
[quote]DSF is not supported by MediaMonkey.[/quote]
...which, at the risk of ranting, is why Ventis Media is shooting itself in the foot in a way that I fear will be the undoing of MediaMonkey. I've been a paid MM user for a long time, and it has been my program of choice since I first started ripping my music collection to FLAC many years (and several computers) ago. I'd love to keep using it -- but, last year, I shelled out again for JRiver, and now use that almost exclusively. Why? Because I had accumulated a decent collection of DSD files and a DSD-compatible DAC, and wanted to be able to play those files natively from within my media-library manager of choice instead of having to fire up a different piece of software for them or going through the hassle of converting them to 24/88. JRiver does this. Foobar2000 -- for free! -- does this. Even the latest iteration of Logitech Media Server/Squeezebox (also free) does this. So why are the folks behind MM so dead-set against it? As much as I was a devoted user of MM, should I be asked today by a friend for advice in setting up a system like mine, I could not in good conscience recommend a product that was PCM-only. If I were getting started today, I wouldn't even consider MM for that reason...and, I suspect, lots of other potential customers will be reaching that decision in the years to come.
