Decibel for Android

Purchased App to play DSF music files. Will not play these files. Error message every time I try to play a DSF file. Reported problem and requested support. No support given, email ignored. Don’t buy this App.

The review below is how I felt when it was working. Unforutnately, under El Capitan, all it does is crash :( When it starts working again, my review will return to being: I tried the various hacks to play lossless music on my Android like Fluke etc and none were satisfactory. Free stuff like VLC can work in a pinch, but it's not optimized for performance nor sound quality (playing from memory, sample rates, processing quality). Decibel does what it says it will do and it does it very well. Quality sound, reliable playback and the key lossless formats that iTunes doesn't support. What's missing? Media management. I'm not looking for something too fancy, and even a hook into another software program would be acceptable. Right now, there is nothing like that from what I can see. And ripping would be cool too. Of course, if both those were added, the price would likely double. Get it now. It's a bargain and does what it says it does and does it well. (And use an external DAC. The quality of decibel means that the weak link will be the Android's own DAC. You can still use your Android's DAC of course, but you'll be even happier with something better and decibel can make use of it.)

The player was great, but now with latest version of OS, the app keeps crashing.

the sound was much more detailed and analogue like over iTunes. however recently i have been unable to open the app and have found this very very… extremely frustrating. Android.

This product is for those who want to listen to music on their computer similarly to the way you’d listen to a vinyl album. Change the settings to “Load files in memory”, “Obtain exclusive access”, “Adjust sample rate for best quality”, and Sample rate converter to “Maximum quality”. Open Decibel and load an album that you have saved as a lossless format, and press play. Then just listen! The program can be a memory and processor hog, but that's because it’s using lots of resources to best play your audio files. You may experience some “not bit-perfect” audio if you’re using your computer for other processes (and Decible knows when it’s made an error). But you’re busy listening to your music, so why are you doing that?? I bought this because I was originally listening to flac files using vlc and was frustrated with the lack clarity and abundance of errors during playback. Using Decibel and an external sound card makes my digital music library sound just as good as my physical library.