1-bit 1.9 is on the App Store. A binaural renderer that puts the stereo image out around your head, a live spectrum and true-peak analyzer fed by a tap that only reads, favorites that back up to your own bridge, composers and genres as first-class sections, and a measured answer to whether a hi-res file really is one.
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1-bit 1.8 is on the App Store. You can point it at music folders on your device instead of copying them in, watch the music's real waveform behind the progress bar, open available album booklets, and find the records where an artist only guests. Additional improvements include optional offline caching, settings tuned to the DAC you own, and the largest fix pass since 1.0.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.