Handling and Playing DSD Files

Everything about playing DSD and DXD file and optimising performance

17 articles in this collection
Written by Jonas Sacks, Ted Brady, and Brian Moura

Audio File Conversion

DAC's DSD conversions (on the fly)

A question from a listener inspired this article

Written by Brian Moura
Updated over a week ago

Converting DSD files to other file formats or disc

If you need DSD files converted to Flac or Wav, or change a DSD file from .dff to .dsf format.

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

File Management

File Rename Guide to Make file names easily identifiable

Use JRiver or MP3TAG to quickly rename files.ext to organise your library of sound files.

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

Automatically Renaming Album Folder to Artist-Album format (Windows)

An Easy Guide to NativeDSD Downloading and Automatically Renaming Album Folder to Artist-Album format (Windows Only)

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

Creating a Gapless Playback File

Using Tascam Hi-Res Editor to combine DSD track into one big trackfile

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

Metadata (TAG) Management

Album cover artwork display

What to do when you do not see the cover of an album showing up in your player

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

Creating Multi-artist "albums" in JRiver Media Centre

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

Editing, changing and manipulating Metadata (Tags)

Here is help tagging or changing tags in the .dsf files to improve the quality of the results of local searches in your music player

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

Software Specific Guides

How to play DSD in iTunes using Audirvana

Using Audirvana plus and iTunes to play DSD Files

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

Adding DSD files to Roon

Setting up your ROON player for DSD

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

How to Play DSD-files in iTunes using Bitperfect

A Guide in using BitPerfect and DSD Master app to create Hybrid-DSD Files to be played in Apple's iTunes

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

Foobar 2000 and Playing .dsf audio files

Foobar playing DSD files and editing metadata on Windows

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

JRiver Media Centre Setup for playing / modifying DSD files, creating views

Video guides with help to setup DSD playback in Windows, MAC OS, and has tips for Mojo, ExaSound and NADAC users while using JRiver.

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

ONKYO HF player DSD setup guide

Here we talk about how you can add files to ONKYO's HF Player on your iOS decide via iTunes

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

Playing DSD files in Audirvana

Written by Ted Brady
Updated over a week ago

Hardware specific Guides

Play .dsf files on Sony HAP-Z1ES

Playing DSD files and fixing issues with artwork and covers not showing up

Written by Jonas Sacks
Updated over a week ago

Playing DSD on Oppo Machines explained

Using the DSD DAC on the Oppo 103, Oppo 105 and Oppo 205

Written by Brian Moura
Updated over a week ago