CHANNEL D RELEASES PURE MUSIC VERSION 2

deleted user 10898 · 25 Μαϊου 2014

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/channel-d-releases-pure-music-version-2/

Brand new features in Pure Music 2:

New user interface for main controller / meter bar window
Supports “Cocoa” UI for AudioUnit Plug-Ins
LINK button allows disabling Pure Music and iTunes automatic window docking
Meter bar now automatically resizes to full width of iTunes window (with LINK engaged)
Meter bar can be resized independently of iTunes window
New Transparency control to make the meter / controller a see-through window
New FLOAT function keeps Pure Music window on top of all others
Jog-style Volume slider with 0.1 dB precision
Volume balance knob with precision 0.1 dB control
Interactive volume and balance display in meter window
Menu command to save all plug-in settings and window positions at once
Menu command to show or hide all plug-in settings windows at once
Added 48 dB / octave Linkwitz - Riley crossover option to all crossover configurations
New Quick Playlist feature for quickly playing FLAC or DSD files (and other formats) via ad-hoc playlists, independent of iTunes and without needing to create Bookmarks
Can add groups of files or folders to Quick Playlist with OPEN... command
File Converter now provides choice of converting to Apple Lossless or AIFF
File Sample Rate Converter can downsample DXD format (352.8 kHz) files
Supports having more than one music storage volume with the same name

Sound quality enhancements:

Enhancements to DSD Support:

Configuring Pure Music for a native DSD (DoP) device is now a one-click operation
Mastering-Quality DSD to PCM File Converter with multiple configuration and output options
Eliminated visible setting for DSD Flag. To toggle flag from 05FA to AAAA and vice versa hold down the Option key while pressing the Copy Name... button
Added check box to enable DSD AC3 binary stream format for drivers that support it
Worked around a bug in .dff files written by certain standalone TASCAM DSD recorders (DV-RA1000HD in particular) that prevented such files from playing in Pure Music (an incorrect value was written in the file by the TASCAM recorder)

Enhancements to Existing features:

Can choose location for storing Bookmarks
Improvement to playthrough device synchronization and latency
Ensures Played Count and Last Played Date are updated in iTunes
Improvements to Gapless playback track analysis mechanism
New "link to next track" keyword in Comments field to force gapless linking
Simplified Dithering choices
Preserves state of Less is More Mode across launches
Incorporates album art for FLAC files if not present in original file but included in the album folder as folder.jpg, cover.jpg, folder.png, cover.png or AlbumName.jpg (or .png), where AlbumName is the name of the enclosing folder

Bug fixes:

Corrected problem which caused iTunes to be muted if Pure Music enters Playthrough mode directly after launch
Stereo dither check box now works (was ignored and always stereo previously)
Includes internal hint to Energy Saver API to not allow App Nap, which caused playback to pause under Mavericks (10.9.1 or later) when the monitor sleeps
Fixed positioning issue with Pure Music "hidden UI" placard
Eliminates issue with the File Converter (formerly Convert to Apple Lossless), which used the word length specified in the Sample Rate Converter settings instead of the word length of the original file
Eliminated cause of freeze for Add FLAC/DSD... operation when converting a folder if a .txt file was present in the album folder
File Converter no longer skips non-FLAC files having a 44.1 kHz sample rate
Eliminates iTunes 11 "first track" selection issue after launching Pure Music, when using Remote App
Eliminated lock-up that could happen when trying to perform an Add FLAC / DSD... operation after playing Gapless tracks
Eliminated issue that could cause beginning of a track to be skipped after a sample rate change
Plus additional performance enhancements and bug fixes