BitPerfect

Posted by: BigH47 on 05 December 2012

I'm using BP 1.0.2 with iTunes 11. OSX 10.6.8

 

On some tracks it sounds like a needle drop, small clicks and noises off.

 

Any one else had this ?  Any ideas maybe a settings thing?  

 

WTF is Adaptive overload recovery or Triangular High Pass Dither and do I need it?

 

Any one using BP 1.0.4 with iT 11 yet?

Posted on: 05 December 2012 by winkyincanada

I haven't had the issue.

 

But if you look at the read-me file that came with the download, you will see how to get a setting "dump" that can be e-mailed to the developer. When I had a (self-caused) issue a while back, the support was prompt, courteous and useful. You get to communicate direct with the guy who wrote the code. I'd recommend going that route.

Posted on: 05 December 2012 by BigH47

Thanks Winky I had forgotten about that. I'll see if anyone else has a comment and then contact BP, they are a bit busy(NPI) ATM.

 

They seem to have fallen foul of Apple  changing the rules for Apps and their first effort at 1.0.4 was rejected, as would have been all earlier versions if they had just submitted them.

Apparently some BP users on 1.0.4 still have issues. 

Posted on: 05 December 2012 by james n

Have you got any other software running at the same time. Spotlight or word documents auto saving can cause clicks - worth checking. 

 

James

Posted on: 05 December 2012 by Guido Fawkes

I haven't had that issue ... you may want to have a quick read here to see if it helps.

 

I think BP will sort out its problems ... it interacts with your music files without telling you first ... and Apple has said this is unacceptable. An App must confirm with the user that such jiggery pokery is OK  ... in theory, I suppose, it could do something nasty and you could blame Apple for allowing it to do so ... so the big A wants you say I'm happy to take the risk - on my head be it. Of course, BP does nothing, but good ... but I understand Apple's viewpoint 

 

Apple is no doubt inundated with requests to bless new apps and sell them through the AppStore ... it, of course, only wants to sell things that just work. It is a brave model to adopt and quite different from the Android it's your problem mate approach. However, BP has wait in the queue, which is not great news for us. 

 

If BP remains problematic you could use vanilla iTunes and change the rate to suit your fancy ... quite why Apple didn't introduce an option to match the incoming and outgoing bit rate is beyond me. However, never understood why the didn't support FLAC (or why they didn't continue to support HyperCard).  

 

However, I'd follow Winky's advice ... BP is a goof app and be interested to know how you get on. 

Posted on: 05 December 2012 by BigH47

Thanks Guido, it is so simple this streaming lark eh.

 

To think we used to have to put a CD in a player and press play( oh no I forgot the crane to put the puck on). 

 

 

Are you using BP 1.0.4 with iT 11?

 

James there are alway other things running on my machine, it just seems to be BP/iTunes , when I stop BP and replay all seems OK unless it doesn't show at lower resolutions. 

 

To be perfectly honest if streaming is the answer for the future , then the question is wrong.

Posted on: 11 December 2012 by Disposable hero

Just a quick question - a bit academic - but can't find any information on the relationship between BitPerfect running and the "hd" light on a nDAC. Either with lossy or lossless albums being played and with BitPerfect enabled, the "hd" light will come on, what would be the reason for this?