Download HQPlayer Desktop 4 for Windows Windows, MacOS, Linux - A high-quality audio file converter, recorder, and player for 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11
HQPlayer is a high quality audio player for Windows, Linux and macOS. HQPlayer features several user-selectable high-quality resamplers as well as user-selectable dither/noise shaping algorithms and delta-sigma modulators. It is mainly intended as a mastering post-production tool for producing high-quality final distribution files in various formats. Any of the supported source formats can be converted to any of the supported destination formats. For example, DXD intermediate format can be converted to both PCM and DSD outputs.
HQPlayer Desktop - Multichannel audio player for Windows
Recording and playback are also supported in both PCM and SDM (DSD) formats. Playback feature also allows monitoring of final output format during conversion and recording, monitoring can be enabled/disabled on the fly. HQPlayer Pro also includes a pipeline matrix for performing channel routing, mixing and gain adjustments, including convolution engine for applying advanced equalization or other kinds of effects.
Supported source formats:
- CDDA (Audio CD)
- FLAC
- WavPack (PCM and DSD)
- DSDIFF (DFF, non-compressed)
- DSF
- RIFF (WAV, including DXD/RF64)
- AIFF
- MP3
- RAW streams
- Realtime audio inputs
- Supported playlist formats:
- M3U / M3U8
- PLS
Features of HQPlayer:
- Software upsampling / downsampling with selectable algorithm up to 32-bit 1.536 MHz or down to 8-bit 32 kHz PCM (39 options, most "apodizing")
- Delta-Sigma modulators for upsampling PCM/DSD content up to 98.304 MHz 1-bit SDM (14 modulators, 43 PCM oversampling options and 2 DSD rate converters)
- Selectable dithering / noise shaping algorithm (9 options)
- Selectable convolution algorithm (FIR) for equalization, such as digital room correction (2 options), for PCM/DSD content
- Optional high-frequency expansion for the convolution engine
- Parametric equalizers for PCM/DSD content
- RIAA equalization for vinyl sources
- Software-based digital volume control for PCM and SDM (DSD)
- Source content analysis to detect need for apodizing oversampling filter
- Playback of DSF/DSDIFF files through any supported audio interface (PCM conversion and DSD rate conversion)
- Selectable algoritm and noise filters for DSF/DSDIFF PCM playback (12 / 9 options)
- Native/direct playback of DSF/DSDIFF files (ASIO DSD, DoP v1.1 with both 0x05/0xFA and 0x06/0xF9 markers)
- Playback of stereo, 2.1, 3.0, quadrophonic, 3.1, 5.0, 5.1 and 7.1 channel material
- Speaker configuration for multichannel playback (delay and level) for PCM and SDM (DSD)
- Matrix processing for routing, filtering and mixing channels with gain, for PCM/DSD content
- Bypasses operating system software mixer and sample rate conversion
- Support for professional ASIO drivers
- Network endpoint support with Signalyst Asynchronous Network Audio Adapters
- Support for ID3v2 tags on AIFF, DSF, WAV and MP3 files (versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4)
- Smooth level limiter for clipped material
- "Dual wire" channel bonding support to reach 2x rates, PCM and DoP (DSD)
- 64/80-bit floating point processing
- Full support for multi-core processors
- Light weight desktop-GUI to lower graphics noise
- Touch-aware remote control client
- DSP offload to GPU using NVIDIA CUDA
- Headphone cross-feed processing
- Adaptive loudness control
- Support for ReplayGain 2.0 metadata.
