1-bit

Music has always been there for me, and designing a player where I know how it all works, and that does the job as well as it can be done, has long been an ambition of mine.

1-bit is that player. I build it in the evenings: a music player for iPhone and iPad that refuses to touch the bits on their way to your DAC. It plays your own files, not a streaming catalogue.

PCM (FLAC, ALAC, WAV and so on) goes out at the file’s own sample rate. DSD goes out over DoP to a USB DAC that can take it. The music can sit on an SMB share, on a bridge you run yourself or in a folder on the device, and it all ends up in one library.

Anyone can write “bit-perfect” on a store page, so 1-bit has a screen called Signal Path. Open it on any track and it follows the signal from the file to the output, one stage at a time, with each stage saying what it did. The bit-exact seal only appears when nothing is altering the bits, and that includes the volume as it is right now. With no DAC in the path it still plays, converted on the phone, and Signal Path says so.

It’s free. There are no ads and no tracking, and you only need an account if you choose 1-bit Cloud, the optional hosted library.

Get 1-bit on the App Store. The details and the release notes are on 1-bit.app.