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1-bit 1.7 is on the App Store. Ask Siri to play your library, a Home screen of automatic mixes your own bridge builds from your listening history, performer credits, and a new DAC profile — plus an optional way to pull richer artwork and artist notes. Bridge 0.1.7 ships alongside with Smart Mixes and on-device audio analysis. Same bit-exact DSD over DoP, no transcoding.
I'm retiring Sonogram, my WebGL music visualizer. The audio analysis underneath it — waveforms, EBU R128 loudness, key and tempo — lives on in 1-bit. What I kept, and what I let go.
1-bit — the bit-exact DSD and PCM player for iOS — now has its own site at 1-bit.app. Here's what moved off ars.md, what stayed, and why the split made sense.
Two ways to play music from an iPhone into a Chord Hugo 2 — a USB cable, or UPnP to a 2Go bolted onto it. Both are bit-exact. Here's what actually differs, and which one is optimal.
How to play music from an iPhone to a Chord 2Go over your own network — bit-exact, no transcoding — using DLNA and a self-hosted 1-bit bridge. Plus the security caveat nobody mentions.
iPhones don't play DSD out of the box, and most apps quietly convert it to PCM. Here's what actually playing DSD takes — a USB DAC, DoP, the right file, and a player that gets out of the way.
1-bit 1.5 is on the App Store. Play bit-exact to a Chord 2Go or any DLNA renderer on your network, back up your playlists to your own bridge, and keep a private listening history. Bridge 0.1.5 ships alongside with a DLNA MediaServer. Same DSD over DoP, no transcoding.
1-bit 1.4 is on the App Store. CarPlay browse + Now Playing on the head unit, offline downloads, an in-app log viewer, and an optional DSD-domain DSP chain. Bridge 0.1.4 ships alongside with public-mode hosting and CarPlay-optimized variants. Same bit-exact DSD over DoP, no transcoding.
1-bit 1.3 is on the App Store. Opportunistic background library scans, composer/conductor/work fields for classical, a Listening Tips guide, a refined cellular streaming gate — and an easter-egg card that still calls this version 'Too Late, Too Soon'. Bridge 0.1.3 ships alongside. Same bit-exact DSD over DoP, no transcoding.
1-bit 1.2 is live on the App Store. Admin-approved bridge pairing, on-bridge upscaled audio variants, per-share cellular streaming, and a quieter audio engine — same bit-exact DSD over DoP, native-rate PCM, no transcoding.
1-bit version 1.1 is on the App Store: a free open-source bridge for your music library, a stack of hard-won launch-week fixes, and the same bit-exact DSD and PCM playback to your USB DAC.
An iOS app can't tell whether your Lightning or USB-C output is a $9 dongle or a $250 Audeze Cipher cable. Why Apple's audio API is opaque, and how 1-bit handles the gap honestly.
An iOS music player for people who care how their music sounds — bit-exact PCM and DSD over DoP, straight from your NAS to your DAC. Now on the App Store.