Audirvana development keeps on keeping on.  It’s definitely one of the better audiophile-quality music players for OS X but the new beta (“Plus”) version pulls an even bigger rabbit from the hat – iTunes integration.  Wow. “Audirvana Plus can now, in addition to its independent playlist mode, be fully controlled by iTunes. In this mode, Audirvana Plus works transparently in the

In early August a chap called Tim Murison released an app to the Mac App Store called BitPerfect. (Yes, it’s Mac only and requires iTunes). BitPerfect is an add-on for iTunes that takes care of automatic sample-rate switching (so no more delving into Audio Midi Setup each time you wanna move between RedBook and Hires files), memory playback and is

OS X software guru Stephen Booth turned heads late last year with his minimal software player AyreWave; apparently the coalescing of some the great audiophile minds at both Ayre Acoustics and Wavelength Audio.   It swiftly became my audio player of choice when using my Macbook and J Kenny-modded Hiface as transport. It transpires that the AyreWave name was just

Audiofile Engineering have released their new audio player Fidelia (formerly Twilight). Fidelia is an elegant and powerful music player created exclusively for Mac OS X. Designed in Cocoa from the ground up, Fidelia proudly takes advantage of CoreAudio, Quartz, and other solid OS X features. It supports FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, can be controlled by Fidelia’s iPhone/iPad app (AU$12.99), syncs with

The author of the ever-dependable Play audio player (Stephen Booth) has this launched the first public beta of a more audiophile-focussed software player for OS X. For audiophile users desiring more control over their audio, AyreWave can take exclusive control of the output device (using hog mode) and send audio in the device’s native format. Additionally, AyreWave can automatically adjust

Elsten software have announced the release of bliss for Mac OS X. bliss is a fully automated album art organiser for digital music. bliss saves time when managing large music collections by running fully automatically, fixing your music collections so it complies with the rules you specify. The result is a cleaner, more consistent and correct MP3 library. As a