A track is known by where it lives. A music server gives every track an internal name, and some servers mint new ones each time they re-index their library — the same track, called something else by the afternoon. Fidelia filed by that name, so a server re-indexing while Fidelia read it could enter the same music into your library again and again, and the stored library kept every copy: enough of it, on a server that re-indexes often, to crowd the Mac's memory the next time Fidelia opened. And when a server passed an old name on to a different track, the newcomer took the older one's place, so an album could quietly come up a track short. Fidelia now recognises a track by where its bytes are, which is not something a server rearranges. Whatever it calls that track today, it stays the row it has always been, and nothing a re-index shuffles can displace something else. Copies already in your library are cleared out the first time you open this version, and the playlists holding them go on working. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

A restless server is read once. Reading a network music server's library, Fidelia remembered every listing it was handed — and a server can hand over the same track many times: once per index it publishes, and, if it is still scanning its drive while Fidelia reads it, once again per re-listing as its shelves shift underneath the walk. On a server that would not settle, that remembering could grow for hours, until the Mac itself ran short of memory. Fidelia now keeps each track once, however many times a server lists it, and a reading that cannot finish because the library keeps changing sets down what it has found and picks the rest up when the server settles. Memory while a server syncs is proportional to your library, never to the server's restlessness — and the progress count in the sidebar counts tracks, not repetitions. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

A streamer is told what it is being sent. We compared everything a renderer can see, byte for byte, against the one server proven to play that box at full speed; those two were the only differences left, and both are now declared, for every format. When a stream to a renderer ends, the diagnostic log now says how and why — the box closed it, a newer connection took over, the station went off the air — and how long the box had gone without accepting a byte. A stall that used to show as one request and then silence has a name. Playing bit-perfect to a renderer, the main display names the format again. On that path the box fetches the file itself and Fidelia's own engine never decodes it, and the readout had only ever asked the engine. It now shows what the library already knew. The sidebar stays off the buttons. The Library sidebar's rows used to scroll straight up under the window's close, minimise and zoom buttons. They now stop at a hairline that appears only while something is beneath it, exactly level with the rule across the rest of the window. It was so on every macOS; a long sidebar on macOS 26 was the first to show it. A cover is never another artist's. Finding a cover online checked the album's title and not its artist, so a differently named band's identically titled record could win for having a picture. The artist is checked now. A cover you remove stays removed across launches; it used to be fetched straight back. A purchase that is waiting says so. Apple sometimes holds a purchase for approval — a card verified in Wallet, Ask to Buy, a bank's check. The buy screen used to look as though nothing had happened, which invites buying again. It now says the purchase is waiting on Apple and will unlock here as soon as it clears, on Mac and on iPhone and iPad alike. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Music that keeps playing. A DAC asked to change tracks while it is still letting go of the last one can stumble for a fraction of a second. Fidelia used to take that as a verdict on the track and skip it — then skip the next one for the same reason. It now asks the device again before giving up, so a moment's hesitation costs you nothing. Streaming plays through, not just starts. Sending a track to a streamer, Fidelia says up front how many bytes are coming. If reading the file hesitated part way — a drive pausing for breath — the transfer used to stop there, quietly, and your streamer sat waiting for a tail that never arrived: a few seconds of music, then silence. Fidelia now asks the file again, and says so plainly if it ever cannot. Many M4A files — most of what iTunes ripped or sold for years — keep their index at the end of the file, which a streamer must fetch before it can decode a note. Fidelia sends those files with the index first, byte for byte the same audio, so every streamer reads them straight through like a FLAC. On a Mac with both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connected, Fidelia asks macOS which connection it will actually use, rather than choosing by name. Album art and processed streams travel the same way as the music. A big library stays quick to move around in. Your own tracks are on screen within seconds of launch, however big the rest is — anything mirrored from Music.app or a server fills in behind them. Fidelia no longer re-reads your whole Music library every quarter of an hour, and never starts that work while music is playing. Choosing a playlist, or typing in the search field, no longer stops to rebuild work it already had. On a library of 185,000 tracks, typing five characters into search used to hold the window for seconds; it is now immediate. Fidelia Remote asking for your playlists no longer costs the Mac the same pause. Renamed a folder? Your tracks find themselves. Correct an album's folder name in a tag editor and those tracks would grey out, even though they still played. Fidelia now recognises the move — the album's folder, or a folder above it — and the whole folder comes back at once, wherever the music lives. Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. When a file declares a layout you know is wrong, you can correct it once, against that mask, and every file carrying it follows. The routing pane says which mode it is in: Automatic, following your speakers, or Custom, the matrix you built. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface: your speakers on the left, drawn where they sit, your interface's outputs on the right. Every speaker carries its own meter, so a mis-wired rig is obvious the moment music plays. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip; the farthest becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match. A rig is remembered per output device. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can emit a filtered channel per driver. A 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly rather than arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — survives the trip. Elsewhere. Appearance, in General, follows your Mac's Light or Dark setting, or holds one of them whatever the Mac is doing. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and now up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. And when a file declares a layout you know is wrong, you can correct it — once, against that mask, so every file carrying it follows, including ones you have not played yet. The routing pane now says which mode it is in: Automatic, following your speakers, or Custom, the matrix you built yourself. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface. Your speakers on the left, drawn where they actually sit; your interface's outputs on the right. Assign by dragging an output onto a speaker, or from the speaker's own menu. Every speaker carries its own meter, so a mis-wired rig is obvious the moment music plays; Identify, mute, solo and polarity sit on each. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip. The farthest becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match — you supply the measurements, Fidelia does the maths. A rig is remembered per output device; plug in a different interface and its own rig comes back. Your plugins go as wide as your rig. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can take a stereo record and emit a filtered channel per driver. Multichannel travels, too: a 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly instead of arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — is no longer dropped on the way out. Streaming that starts when you press play. Many M4A files — most of what iTunes ripped or sold for years — keep their index at the end of the file. A streamer has to fetch that before it can decode a note, and over the network that meant half a minute of silence, or a box stuck repeating its first second. Fidelia now sends those files with the index first, byte for byte the same audio, and every streamer reads them straight through like a FLAC. Files stream in small pieces rather than being loaded whole, so a long track no longer costs your Mac its memory. The network module has a free trial, so you can hear Fidelia driving your streamer before you decide. Finding your streamers no longer stalls on one that has gone quiet. Send Diagnostic Report carries the last fifteen minutes of Fidelia's own log. A very large library stops making you wait — and stops making you stutter. Your own tracks are on screen within seconds of launch, however big the rest is — anything mirrored from Music.app or a server fills in behind them instead of holding the window shut. On a library of 185,000 tracks that used to take over a minute. Fidelia used to re-read your entire Music.app library every quarter of an hour, and at that size the read alone took minutes of processor time — the cause of stutter that seemed to come from nowhere. It now looks at whether Music's catalog has changed at all, and when it has, reads only what is new. It never starts that work while music is playing. Albums whose covers Music.app never handed over now show them: Fidelia reads the art from the file itself. Saved music servers appear in the sidebar the moment the window opens. And a file Music catalogued as AAC that is really Apple Lossless now says so — the decoder is the one that knows. Elsewhere. Appearance, in General, follows your Mac's Light or Dark setting — or holds one of them whatever the Mac is doing. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it — sorting a column is a view. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and now up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. And when a file declares a layout you know is wrong, you can correct it — once, against that mask, so every file carrying it follows, including ones you have not played yet. The routing pane now says which mode it is in: Automatic, following your speakers, or Custom, the matrix you built yourself. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface. Your speakers on the left, drawn where they actually sit; your interface's outputs on the right. Assign by dragging an output onto a speaker, or from the speaker's own menu, which lists free outputs first and names what the busy ones feed. Every speaker carries its own meter, so a mis-wired rig is obvious the moment music plays. Identify sweeps pink noise through the room one speaker at a time, and mute, solo and polarity sit on each. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip. The farthest becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match — you supply the measurements, Fidelia does the maths. A rig is a physical fact, so it is remembered per output device: positions, distances and trims survive a relaunch. Plug in a different interface and its own rig comes back. Your plugins go as wide as your rig. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can take a stereo record and emit a filtered channel per driver. Slots that only speak stereo say so, and are bypassed rather than guessed at. Multichannel travels, too: a 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly instead of arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — is no longer dropped on the way out. Streaming that tells you the truth about itself. The network module now has a free trial, so you can hear Fidelia driving your streamer before you decide. A streamer that refuses a gapless hand-off now falls back the moment it says no rather than at the track boundary — the cause of a track that simply never starts. Backward seeks no longer re-send the whole track, a briefly busy box is no longer written off for the session, and finding your streamers no longer stalls on one that has gone quiet. Send Diagnostic Report carries the last fifteen minutes of Fidelia's own log, including an output device that took a track and never started it. A very large library stops making you wait. Your own tracks are on screen within a third of a second of launch, however big the rest is — anything mirrored from Music.app or a server fills in behind them instead of holding the window shut. On a library of 185,000 tracks that used to take over a minute. Clicking the Library or a playlist now reacts on the click, and sorting one is about seven times faster. A library that has not changed writes nothing at all when it syncs: those long pauses after a Music.app sync, on a library nobody had touched, were Fidelia rewriting every row to say what it already said. The album wall changes from one context to the next in a single cut, instead of blinking through the covers it is leaving. Elsewhere. Appearance, in General, follows your Mac's Light or Dark setting — or holds one of them whatever the Mac is doing. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it — sorting a column is a view. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. The library table keeps the row you selected and gains a Date Added column. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and now up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface. Your speakers on the left, drawn where they actually sit; your interface's outputs on the right. Assign by dragging an output onto a speaker, or from the speaker's own menu, which lists free outputs first and names what the busy ones feed. Every speaker carries its own meter, so a mis-wired rig is obvious the moment music plays. Identify sweeps pink noise through the room one speaker at a time, and mute, solo and polarity sit on each. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip. The farthest becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match — you supply the measurements, Fidelia does the maths. Two subwoofers in different corners can be calibrated differently, because that is the reason to have two. A rig is a physical fact, so it is remembered per output device: positions, distances and trims survive a relaunch, and stay put when a stereo album follows a 5.1 one. Plug in a different interface and its own rig comes back. Your plugins go as wide as your rig. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can take a stereo record and emit a filtered channel per driver. Slots that only speak stereo say so, and are bypassed rather than guessed at. Multichannel travels, too: a 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly instead of arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — is no longer dropped on the way out. Streaming that tells you the truth about itself. Try it before you buy it: the network module now has a free trial, so you can hear Fidelia driving your streamer before you decide. A streamer that refuses a gapless hand-off now falls back the moment it says no rather than at the track boundary — the cause of a track that simply never starts. Backward seeks no longer re-send the whole track, and a briefly busy box is no longer written off for the session. Send Diagnostic Report carries the last fifteen minutes of Fidelia's own log, so what the streaming path recorded comes with it. A very large library stops making you wait. Your own tracks are on screen within a third of a second of launch, however big the rest is — anything mirrored from Music.app or a server fills in behind them instead of holding the window shut. On a library of 185,000 tracks that used to take over a minute. Clicking the Library or a playlist now reacts on the click, and sorting one is about seven times faster. A library that has not changed writes nothing at all when it syncs: those long pauses after a Music.app sync, on a library nobody had touched, were Fidelia rewriting every row to say what it already said. Editing a tag, pinning a version or importing a folder no longer costs a pass over the whole library either. The album wall changes from one context to the next in a single cut, instead of blinking through the covers it is leaving. Elsewhere. Appearance, in General, follows your Mac's Light or Dark setting — or holds one of them whatever the Mac is doing. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it — sorting a column is a view. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. The library table keeps the row you selected, and gains a Date Added column. The sidebar goes wider and remembers it; columns keep the widths you give them, and scroll sideways when you ask for more than fit. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and now up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface. Your speakers on the left, drawn where they actually sit. Your interface's outputs on the right — two sides of one question, and on a big interface you ask both. Assign by dragging an output onto a speaker, or from the menu on the speaker itself, which lists free outputs first and names what the busy ones already feed. Every speaker carries its own meter, so a mis-wired rig is obvious the moment music plays. Identify sweeps pink noise through the room one speaker at a time. Mute, solo and polarity sit on each speaker, visible before you engage them — "why is this speaker silent" is exactly when you go looking for the control. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip. The farthest becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match — you supply the measurements, Fidelia does the maths. Two subwoofers in different corners can be calibrated differently, because that is the reason to have two. A rig is a physical fact, so it is remembered per output device: your positions, distances and trims survive a relaunch, and stay put when a stereo album follows a 5.1 one. Plug in a different interface and its own rig comes back. Headroom, new in Advanced, gives the chain room at the top — so a surround trimmed up to match an under-powered amp has somewhere to go. It stays out of the way in Bit-Perfect, where nothing may touch a sample. Your plugins go as wide as your rig. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can take a stereo record and emit a filtered channel per driver. Slots that only speak stereo say so, and are bypassed rather than guessed at. The routing matrix now says where its row count comes from — the playing file, or a width you fixed — and links to the control that sets it. Multichannel travels, too. A 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly instead of arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — is no longer dropped on the way out. Fidelia also asks an AVR or HDMI display for the width it really supports. Streaming that tells you the truth about itself. Try it before you buy it: the network module now has a free trial, so you can point Fidelia at your streamer and hear it working before you decide. A streamer that refuses a gapless hand-off now falls back the moment it says no rather than at the track boundary — the cause of a track that simply never starts. Fidelia also times the silence between pressing Play and sound arriving — the part of "it takes forever between tracks" no call timing ever showed. Backward seeks no longer re-send the whole track, a paused streamer stays paused when you change outputs, and a briefly busy box is no longer written off for the session. Send Diagnostic Report now carries the last fifteen minutes of Fidelia's own log: reproduce a problem, send the report, and everything the streaming path recorded comes with it. Elsewhere. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it — sorting a column is a view, and now it says so. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. The library table keeps the row you selected, and gains a Date Added column. Large libraries rebuild about twice as fast after an import or a sync. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and now up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface. Your speakers on the left, drawn where they actually sit. Your interface's outputs on the right — two sides of one question, and on a big interface you ask both. Assign by dragging an output onto a speaker, or from the menu on the speaker itself, which lists free outputs first and names what the busy ones already feed. It isn't a picture. Every speaker carries its own meter and glows at its real level, so a miswired rig is obvious the moment music plays. Identify sweeps pink noise through the room one speaker at a time. Mute, solo and polarity sit on each speaker, visible before you engage them — "why is this speaker silent" is exactly when you go looking for the control. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip. The farthest becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match — you supply the measurements, Fidelia does the maths. Two subwoofers in different corners can be calibrated differently, because that is the reason to have two. A rig is a physical fact, so it is remembered per output device: your positions, distances and trims survive a relaunch, and stay put when a stereo album follows a 5.1 one. Plug in a different interface and its own rig comes back. Headroom, new in Advanced, gives the chain room at the top — up to 24 dB of it — so a surround trimmed up to match an under-powered amp has somewhere to go. It stays out of the way in Bit-Perfect, where nothing may touch a sample. Your plugins go as wide as your rig. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can take a stereo record and emit a filtered channel per driver. Slots that only speak stereo say so, and are bypassed rather than guessed at. The routing matrix now says where its row count comes from — the playing file, or a width you fixed — and links to the control that sets it. Multichannel travels, too. A 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly instead of arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — is no longer dropped on the way out. Fidelia also asks an AVR or HDMI display for the width it really supports. Streaming that tells you the truth about itself. Try it before you buy it: the network module now has a free trial, so you can point Fidelia at your streamer and hear it working before you decide. A streamer that refuses a gapless hand-off now falls back the moment it says no rather than at the track boundary — the cause of a track that simply never starts. Fidelia also times the silence between pressing Play and sound arriving — the part of "it takes forever between tracks" no call timing ever showed. Backward seeks no longer re-send the whole track, a paused streamer stays paused when you change outputs, and a briefly busy box is no longer written off for the session. Send Diagnostic Report now carries the last fifteen minutes of Fidelia's own log: reproduce a problem, send the report, and everything the streaming path recorded comes with it. Elsewhere. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it — sorting a column is a view, and now it says so. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. The library table keeps the row you selected, and gains a Date Added column. Large libraries rebuild about twice as fast after an import or a sync: at 100,000 tracks, 544 ms down to 247 ms. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Your whole rig, not just two channels. Fidelia plays 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 — and now up to 9.1.6, sixteen channels, the ceiling for Atmos in a music room. It reads the channel layout the file declares rather than guessing from channel order, so a 3.1 record is not played as quad and an LFE lands where it belongs. The Output Dashboard is the rig on one surface. Your speakers on the left, drawn where they actually sit. Your interface's outputs on the right. Those are two sides of one question — where is the left surround, and what is on output 23 — and on a big interface you ask both. Assign by dragging an output onto a speaker, or from the menu on the speaker itself, which lists free outputs first and names what the busy ones already feed. It isn't a picture. Every speaker carries its own meter and glows at its real level, so a miswired rig is obvious the moment music plays. Identify sweeps pink noise through the room one speaker at a time, and the one sounding lights up in both places at once. Mute, solo and polarity sit on each speaker, visible before you engage them — "why is this speaker silent" is exactly when you go looking for the control. Calibrate by measuring, not by arithmetic. Each speaker takes a distance you measured with a tape, a level trim and a polarity flip. The farthest speaker becomes the reference and the nearer ones are delayed to match — you supply the measurements, Fidelia does the maths. Two subwoofers in different corners can be calibrated differently, because that is the reason to have two. A rig is a physical fact, so it is remembered per output device: your positions, distances and trims survive a relaunch, and stay put when a stereo album follows a 5.1 one. Plug in a different interface and its own rig comes back. Headroom, new in Audio Engine, gives the chain room at the top — up to 24 dB of it — so a surround trimmed up to match an under-powered amp has somewhere to go. It stays out of the way in Bit-Perfect, where nothing may touch a sample. Your plugins go as wide as your rig. Audio Unit slots run a bus up to sixteen channels across, so a convolver can take a stereo record and emit a filtered channel per driver. Slots that only speak stereo say so, and are bypassed rather than guessed at. The routing matrix now says where its row count comes from — the playing file, or a width you fixed — and links to the control that sets it. Multichannel travels, too. A 5.1 track sent to a network player is folded down properly instead of arriving as its front two channels, so the centre — and the lead vocal that lives there — is no longer dropped on the way out. Fidelia also asks an AVR or HDMI display for the width it really supports, instead of believing a device that has settled into stereo. Elsewhere. Playlists show the order they will play in, and let you choose it — sorting a column is a view, and now it says so. Your Music playlists arrive in the order you arranged them. The library table keeps the row you selected, and gains a Date Added column. Large libraries rebuild about twice as fast after an import or a sync: at 100,000 tracks, 544 ms down to 247 ms. On Fidelia Remote, a compilation is one album again rather than one row per performer — and it opens. Streamers now show the artist who actually played each track, instead of "Various Artists" across a whole compilation. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

The Album Wall comes alive. The light moves with the music now. The record you're playing carries a soft beacon, and the wash behind the Wall takes its colour from that album — drifting as the record changes, settling when it doesn't. Move the pointer across the Wall and the room lights under it. It's quicker, too. Covers are decoded ahead of your scrolling and arrive ready to draw, so the first cold pass through a large library stalls about a third as long as it used to. Opening an album and coming back is one continuous move — the cover lands where it left, and nothing flickers on the way. More than two channels. Your 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 files now reach every output on your interface, not just the first two. The Output matrix draws a row per channel in the source — labelled L, R, C, LFE and the rest — so you place them where your system expects them, or fold a multichannel record down to stereo. Audio Unit slots can run wide as well: Settings ▸ Plugins ▸ Multichannel Processing gives your plugins a bus up to 16 channels across, for convolution work that emits a filtered channel per driver. Slots that only speak stereo say so, and are bypassed rather than guessed at. Fidelia plays to your network. Your Lyrion (Logitech Media Server) library appears in the sidebar next to your own files — browse it, search it, see its artwork. That part is free. And your streamer becomes an output. Pick a WiiM, Bluesound, Linn, Naim, Eversolo, Denon or HQPlayer from the same menu as your DAC, and Fidelia sends it the original bits, gaplessly — or the full signal path if you'd rather: HeadSpace, dither, sample-rate conversion and your Audio Unit slots all run before the audio leaves the Mac. A network player that still sounds like Fidelia. Browsing your server is free. Playing to a network endpoint is a separate one-time unlock — no subscription, here or anywhere else in Fidelia. All your music, in one library. Fidelia has always played your imported files and your Music.app library alike. Now it stops treating them as two places — one wall, one table, one search, with your sources as filters and a sortable Source column telling you where a track came from. When the same recording exists in more than one place, Fidelia shows it once and keeps the better copy — lossless over lossy, higher resolution over lower. The album's fidelity light marks the records that have alternates; click it to see every version, ranked. Byte-for-byte duplicates can go to the Trash from there, identity proven by reading the files rather than trusting their names. Music.app tracks appear for reference and stay untouched. And if the chosen copy isn't available the moment you press play, Fidelia falls back to the next best one without saying a word. Missing covers fill themselves in, looked up online and matched exactly on artist and album — because a wrong cover is worse than a missing one. Fidelia also notices when your files change underneath it. Edits in Music.app appear while Fidelia stays open, and replacing a file in place — re-encoding an album to ALAC over the AAC originals — updates its format and resolution on its own. Nothing is re-imported: playlists, play counts and anything you typed by hand stay as they were. Beneath that, the quieter work. Launch is quick again: a step in 2.11.0's migration could stall a large library, once, after updating — it now finishes in seconds, and the library builds in the background, so the window is never the one waiting. Copy-protected Apple Music downloads are named and skipped at import instead of arriving as tracks that silently refuse to play. Deleting a playlist folder takes its subtree with it, and playlists stranded by old folder edits come back into view. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Fidelia plays to your network. Your Lyrion (Logitech Media Server) library now appears in the sidebar next to your own files — browse it, search it, see its artwork. That part is free. And your streamer becomes an output. Pick a WiiM, Bluesound, Linn, Naim, Eversolo, Denon or HQPlayer from the same menu as your DAC, and Fidelia sends it the original bits, gaplessly — or the full signal path if you'd rather: HeadSpace, dither, sample-rate conversion and your Audio Unit slots all run before the audio leaves the Mac. A network player that still sounds like Fidelia. Browsing your server is free. Playing to a network endpoint is a separate one-time unlock — no subscription, here or anywhere else in Fidelia. All your music, in one library. Fidelia has always played your imported files and your Music.app library alike. Now it stops treating them as two places. The Library is a single view of everything you own — one wall, one table, one search. Your sources don't disappear; they become filters. Stay in Library to see all of it, or click Music in the sidebar to see only that. A Source column, sortable like any other, tells you where a track came from, and an album's sleeve names the sources behind it. (Music.app access stays yours to grant, in Settings.) When the same recording exists in more than one place, Fidelia shows it once and keeps the better copy — lossless over lossy, higher resolution over lower. The album's fidelity light marks the records that have alternates; click it to see every version, ranked, with the chosen one marked. Local copies that are byte-for-byte identical can go to the Trash from there — identity proven by reading the files rather than trusting their names, and recoverable, because it's the Trash. Music.app tracks appear for reference and stay untouched. And if the copy Fidelia picked isn't available the moment you press play, it falls back to the next best one without saying a word. Missing covers fill themselves in. Fidelia looks up album art online — the covers on your screen first, then the rest of the library quietly in the background, resuming where it left off at each launch. It accepts only an exact artist-and-album match, because a wrong cover is worse than a missing one, and it remembers the dead ends so it never asks twice. On by default; Settings ▸ General ▸ Library if you'd rather it didn't. The library table remembers more, too. Every playlist — and the Library itself — keeps its own sort, and that sort now survives a trip out to the Album Wall and back. Track and disc numbers are there as columns when you want them. And the count, time, and size along the bottom describe what you're actually looking at. Fidelia also notices when your files change underneath it. Edits you make in Music.app appear while Fidelia stays open. And if you replace a file in place — re-encode an album to ALAC and drop it over the AAC originals — Fidelia reads it again, so the format and resolution catch up on their own. Nothing is re-imported: your playlists, your play counts, and anything you typed by hand stay exactly as they were. Beneath that, the quieter work. Launch is quick again: a step in 2.11.0's library migration could stall a massive library, once, after updating — it now finishes in seconds, and the library builds in the background, so the window is never the one waiting. Deleting a playlist folder takes its subtree with it, and playlists stranded by old folder edits come back into view. Fidelia also no longer waits on macOS's window-restoration service, which under system load could stall for minutes — the cause of an occasional beach ball at launch and a quit that seemed to hang. Quit finishes its own work first, so your DAC is always handed back the way you left it. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

Fidelia plays to your network. Your Lyrion (Logitech Media Server) library now appears in the sidebar next to your own files — browse it, search it, see its artwork. That part is free. And your streamer becomes an output. Pick a WiiM, Bluesound, Linn, Naim, Eversolo, Denon or HQPlayer from the same menu as your DAC, and Fidelia sends it the original bits, gaplessly — or the full signal path if you'd rather: HeadSpace, dither, sample-rate conversion and your Audio Unit slots all run before the audio leaves the Mac. A network player that still sounds like Fidelia. Browsing your server is free. Playing to a network endpoint is a separate one-time unlock — no subscription, here or anywhere else in Fidelia. All your music, in one library. Fidelia has always played your imported files and your Music.app library alike. Now it stops treating them as two places. The Library is a single view of everything you own — one wall, one table, one search. Your sources don't disappear; they become filters. Stay in Library to see all of it, or click Music in the sidebar to see only that. A Source column, sortable like any other, tells you where a track came from, and an album's sleeve names the sources behind it. (Music.app access stays yours to grant, in Settings.) When the same recording exists in more than one place, Fidelia shows it once and keeps the better copy — lossless over lossy, higher resolution over lower. The album's fidelity light marks the records that have alternates; click it to see every version, ranked, with the chosen one marked. Local copies that are byte-for-byte identical can go to the Trash from there — identity proven by reading the files rather than trusting their names, and recoverable, because it's the Trash. Music.app tracks appear for reference and stay untouched. And if the copy Fidelia picked isn't available the moment you press play, it falls back to the next best one without saying a word. Missing covers fill themselves in. Fidelia looks up album art online — the covers on your screen first, then the rest of the library quietly in the background, resuming where it left off at each launch. It accepts only an exact artist-and-album match, because a wrong cover is worse than a missing one, and it remembers the dead ends so it never asks twice. On by default; Settings ▸ General ▸ Library if you'd rather it didn't. The library table remembers more, too. Every playlist — and the Library itself — keeps its own sort, and that sort now survives a trip out to the Album Wall and back. Track and disc numbers are there as columns when you want them. And the count, time, and size along the bottom describe what you're actually looking at. Fidelia also notices when your files change underneath it. Edits you make in Music.app appear while Fidelia stays open. And if you replace a file in place — re-encode an album to ALAC and drop it over the AAC originals — Fidelia reads it again, so the format and resolution catch up on their own. Nothing is re-imported: your playlists, your play counts, and anything you typed by hand stay exactly as they were. Beneath that, the quieter work. Fidelia no longer waits on macOS's window-restoration service, which under system load could stall for minutes — the cause of an occasional beach ball at launch, a quit that seemed to hang, and the Dock reporting "Not responding." Quit now finishes its own work first, so your DAC is always handed back the way you left it. Music.app albums bring their artwork and release year across when they sync. And adding an album to a playlist adds one entry per recording, not one per copy of it. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock, no subscription, so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Thank you for years of listening.

All your music, in one library. Fidelia has always played your imported files and your Music.app library alike. Now it stops treating them as two places. The Library is a single view of everything you own — one wall, one table, one search. Your sources don't disappear; they become filters. Stay in Library to see all of it, or click Music in the sidebar to see only that. A Source column, sortable like any other, tells you where a track came from, and an album's sleeve names the sources behind it. (Music.app access stays yours to grant, in Settings.) When the same recording exists in more than one place, Fidelia shows it once and keeps the better copy — lossless over lossy, higher resolution over lower. The album's fidelity light marks the records that have alternates; click it to see every version, ranked, with the chosen one marked. Local copies that are byte-for-byte identical can go to the Trash from there — identity proven by reading the files rather than trusting their names, and recoverable, because it's the Trash. Music.app tracks appear for reference and stay untouched; Fidelia doesn't reach into your Music library to delete. And if the copy Fidelia picked isn't available the moment you press play, it falls back to the next best one without saying a word. Missing covers fill themselves in. Fidelia looks up album art online — the covers on your screen first, then the rest of the library quietly in the background, resuming where it left off at each launch. It accepts only an exact artist-and-album match, because a wrong cover is worse than a missing one, and it remembers the dead ends so it never asks twice. On by default; Settings ▸ General ▸ Library if you'd rather it didn't. The library table remembers more, too. Every playlist — and the Library itself — keeps its own sort, and that sort now survives a trip out to the Album Wall and back. Track and disc numbers are there as columns when you want them. And the count, time, and size along the bottom describe what you're actually looking at: open an album and you get that album's totals, not your whole collection's. Fidelia also notices when your files change underneath it. Edits you make in Music.app appear while Fidelia stays open. And if you replace a file in place — re-encode an album to ALAC and drop it over the AAC originals — Fidelia sees that the files changed and reads them again, so the format and resolution catch up on their own. Nothing is re-imported: your playlists, your play counts, and anything you typed by hand stay exactly as they were. Beneath that, the quieter work. Fidelia no longer waits on macOS's window-restoration service, which under system load could stall for minutes at a stretch — the cause of an occasional beach ball at launch, a quit that seemed to hang, and the Dock reporting "Not responding." Quit now finishes its own work first, on its own schedule, so your DAC is always handed back the way you left it. Music.app albums bring their artwork and release year across when they sync. And adding an album to a playlist adds one entry per recording, not one per copy of it. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock (no subscription), so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Email support@audiofile.engineering for your longtime-owner options (an upgrade offer, or your original Fidelia 1 to keep). Thank you for years of listening.

Fidelia turns the lights on. Fidelia has always played your music beautifully. Now it shows it beautifully, too. This release introduces Northlight: the album wall and sleeve views now draw their light from your own artwork. Every album casts its own color into the room — and while a record plays, its sleeve breathes quietly with the music. Nothing is decorated, nothing is tinted for effect; the color comes from your covers, honestly, the way everything in Fidelia comes from your music. No two libraries look alike, because no two collections are alike. Radio grows up, too. Streamside puts your stations on a proper deck: sweep the dial by genre, and pin your favorites to nine numbered presets, car-radio style. Tune them from the keyboard with ⌃1 through ⌃9 (rebindable, like every Fidelia command) — and with Fidelia Remote 2.5, the same nine buttons ride in your pocket. And Fidelia evens out your levels now, too. ReplayGain uses the loudness already written into your files to bring every song to the same comfortable level — or to balance a whole album while keeping its dynamics whole — so a hushed nocturne and a loud remaster no longer send your hand to the volume between tracks. It stays off until you ask for it; then choose Track or Album, set a pre-amp to taste, and it reads FLAC, MP3, ALAC, and AAC. Only the level changes — nothing in your music is touched. Beneath the light, quieter work throughout: the library stays fluid through even the largest imports and syncs, and internet radio wears its buffering and loading status on the display where it belongs — never over the waveform. Audio Unit editor windows resize to fit the plugin, the format readout names the true codec rather than the file extension, station names and artwork land reliably on Mac and Remote alike, and the whole app runs a touch lighter. The window chrome is one seamless material from title bar to status bar. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock (no subscription), so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Email support@audiofile.engineering for your longtime-owner options (an upgrade offer, or your original Fidelia 1 to keep). Thank you for years of listening.

Fidelia turns the lights on. Fidelia has always played your music beautifully. Now it shows it beautifully, too. This release introduces Northlight: the album wall and sleeve views now draw their light from your own artwork. Every album casts its own color into the room — and while a record plays, its sleeve breathes quietly with the music. Nothing is decorated, nothing is tinted for effect; the color comes from your covers, honestly, the way everything in Fidelia comes from your music. No two libraries look alike, because no two collections are alike. Radio grows up, too. Streamside puts your stations on a proper deck: sweep the dial by genre, and pin your favorites to nine numbered presets, car-radio style. Tune them from the keyboard with ⌃1 through ⌃9 (rebindable, like every Fidelia command) — and with Fidelia Remote 2.5, the same nine buttons ride in your pocket. Beneath the light, quieter work throughout: the library stays fluid through even the largest imports and syncs, station names and artwork land reliably on Mac and Remote alike, and the window chrome is one seamless material from title bar to status bar. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock (no subscription), so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Email support@audiofile.engineering for your longtime-owner options (an upgrade offer, or your original Fidelia 1 to keep). Thank you for years of listening.

Fidelia goes live. Fidelia has always played the music you own. Now it plays the world's, too. For the first time, Fidelia streams internet radio — a directory of thousands of stations, any station you add by URL, and your own imported streams, all sitting right alongside your collection. And it streams the Fidelia way: every station runs the very same reference engine as your local files — your DAC, your HeadSpace, your signal path, uncompromised. Fidelia grades each stream's true quality honestly, so a lossy feed is never dressed up as hi-fi — and where a station offers a lossless stream, you'll hear every bit of it. Browse and play on your Mac, or reach for it from Fidelia Remote. Rounded out with polish and performance work throughout. Longtime Fidelia 1 owner? Fidelia 2 is an all-new app — a free download with a 14-day trial and a one-time unlock (no subscription), so a Fidelia 1 purchase won't restore into it. Email support@audiofile.engineering for your longtime-owner options (an upgrade offer, or your original Fidelia 1 to keep). Thank you for years of listening.

HeadSpace, refined. Our headphone processor gets another round of painstaking tuning — and it shows. The crossfeed now paints a more convincing front-row soundstage: instruments step out in front of you, the stereo image opens up, and the tonal balance stays faithful to the recording. A newly voiced early-reflection stage adds a touch of real-room depth, and a new Center Realism control lets you set exactly how much of that speakers-in-the-room character you want — from perfectly transparent to a full room around you. Enjoying HeadSpace on its defaults? You'll move to the refined tuning automatically. Made it your own? Your settings carry right over. Also new * DSD over PCM (DoP): smoother, more DAC-agnostic high-resolution playback. * Apple Lossless: ALAC tracks are labeled as Apple Lossless across your whole library. * Album Wall: a new Color sort arranges your covers into a flowing hue gradient. * Library: optional Composer and Date columns. * Get Info: edit metadata across a multi-track selection at once, with a native "Don't ask again" option. * Playlists: inline names are saved the moment you click away. Rounded out with the usual polish and performance work throughout.

2.9.5 refines the album view. Drop a Finder folder onto the cover wall and it joins the playlist you have selected, not just the library — and you can now right-click any cover to remove that album from a playlist or delete it from your library, the same choices the track list offers. The cover wall is steadier, too. 2.9.4 brings native DSD. Your DSD albums — DSF and DFF alike — now play directly, with no conversion and nothing left behind in your library. The one-bit stream is decoded in real time, so DSD sits gaplessly alongside everything else. And for a DAC that decodes DSD itself, a new bit-perfect mode — DSD over PCM — sends the stream through untouched: switched on per device, and confirmed first with a quick test tone, so it only ever engages where it works. 2.9.3 keeps big libraries effortless. However large your collection grows, browsing the cover-art wall stays light on memory, and search keeps pace instantly — even across a hundred thousand tracks, results land the moment you pause and the window never stalls while it works. Upgrading from Fidelia 1 is gentler, too: a rare duplicate entry in an older library no longer halts the import partway. Rounded out with a little visual polish to the album view. 2.9.2 makes startup steadier. When an audio interface or a plug-in's cloud license isn't ready the moment you launch, restoring your effect chains and output device now waits gracefully and recovers as things come online — instead of settling for the wrong device or dropping a slot. Plus extra protection against unstable plug-ins. 2.9.1 makes working with Audio Unit plug-ins quicker and steadier. Opening an effect slot is now instant — your plug-ins appear at once while the system scans quietly in the background — and a slow or unresponsive plug-in no longer holds everything up: each is given a moment to respond, then set aside if it doesn't, so Fidelia stays responsive and steps around it the next time you reach for it. 2.9.0 adds an album art view. Switch the library between the song list and a cover-art wall, then open any album to a full page — the cover lifts into place, and the page is lit by a slow, breathing gradient drawn from the artwork, kept dark so it never glares. The now-playing fidelity light shows at a glance how cleanly a track is reaching your ears; tap it for the full signal path, every stage from the source file through resampling, processing, and dither to your output device. Artist, genre, and composer become linked credits — tap one to refocus the library around it — and an album's Play button plays just that album. A now-playing panel keeps the cover, scrubber, and transport in the sidebar as you browse. Recent 2.x updates brought accented-character library sorting, hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing, drag/drop autoplay, Effect Presets, SRC controls, and Playlist sort columns. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, native DSD playback, APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.

2.9.4 brings native DSD. Your DSD albums — DSF and DFF alike — now play directly, with no conversion and nothing left behind in your library. The one-bit stream is decoded in real time, so DSD sits gaplessly alongside everything else. And for a DAC that decodes DSD itself, a new bit-perfect mode — DSD over PCM — sends the stream through untouched: switched on per device, and confirmed first with a quick test tone, so it only ever engages where it works. 2.9.3 keeps big libraries effortless. However large your collection grows, browsing the cover-art wall stays light on memory, and search keeps pace instantly — even across a hundred thousand tracks, results land the moment you pause and the window never stalls while it works. Upgrading from Fidelia 1 is gentler, too: a rare duplicate entry in an older library no longer halts the import partway. Rounded out with a little visual polish to the album view. 2.9.2 makes startup steadier. When an audio interface or a plug-in's cloud license isn't ready the moment you launch, restoring your effect chains and output device now waits gracefully and recovers as things come online — instead of settling for the wrong device or dropping a slot. Plus extra protection against unstable plug-ins. 2.9.1 makes working with Audio Unit plug-ins quicker and steadier. Opening an effect slot is now instant — your plug-ins appear at once while the system scans quietly in the background — and a slow or unresponsive plug-in no longer holds everything up: each is given a moment to respond, then set aside if it doesn't, so Fidelia stays responsive and steps around it the next time you reach for it. 2.9.0 adds an album art view. Switch the library between the song list and a cover-art wall, then open any album to a full page — the cover lifts into place, and the page is lit by a slow, breathing gradient drawn from the artwork, kept dark so it never glares. The now-playing fidelity light shows at a glance how cleanly a track is reaching your ears; tap it for the full signal path, every stage from the source file through resampling, processing, and dither to your output device. Artist, genre, and composer become linked credits — tap one to refocus the library around it — and an album's Play button plays just that album. A now-playing panel keeps the cover, scrubber, and transport in the sidebar as you browse. Recent 2.x updates brought accented-character library sorting, more resilient handling of bad-actor plugin licensing, hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing on the main player, pre/post-effects metering, post-fader metering, silent scrub, drag/drop autoplay, stronger metadata fallback handling, default Effect UIs, expanded plugin support, Effect Presets, SRC controls, Playlist sort columns, better window management, external audio interface handling, and visual refinement. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, native DSD playback, APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.

2.9.3 keeps big libraries effortless. However large your collection grows, browsing the cover-art wall stays light on memory, and search keeps pace instantly — even across a hundred thousand tracks, results land the moment you pause and the window never stalls while it works. Upgrading from Fidelia 1 is gentler, too: a rare duplicate entry in an older library no longer halts the import partway. Rounded out with a little visual polish to the album view. 2.9.2 makes startup steadier. When an audio interface or a plug-in's cloud license isn't ready the moment you launch, restoring your effect chains and output device now waits gracefully and recovers as things come online — instead of settling for the wrong device or dropping a slot. Plus extra protection against unstable plug-ins. 2.9.1 makes working with Audio Unit plug-ins quicker and steadier. Opening an effect slot is now instant — your plug-ins appear at once while the system scans quietly in the background — and a slow or unresponsive plug-in no longer holds everything up: each is given a moment to respond, then set aside if it doesn't, so Fidelia stays responsive and steps around it the next time you reach for it. 2.9.0 adds an album art view. Switch the library between the song list and a cover-art wall, then open any album to a full page — the cover lifts into place, and the page is lit by a slow, breathing gradient drawn from the artwork, kept dark so it never glares. The now-playing fidelity light shows at a glance how cleanly a track is reaching your ears; tap it for the full signal path, every stage from the source file through resampling, processing, and dither to your output device. Artist, genre, and composer become linked credits — tap one to refocus the library around it — and an album's Play button plays just that album. A now-playing panel keeps the cover, scrubber, and transport in the sidebar as you browse. Recent 2.x updates brought accented-character library sorting, more resilient handling of bad-actor plugin licensing, hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing on the main player, pre/post-effects metering, post-fader metering, silent scrub, drag/drop autoplay, stronger metadata fallback handling, default Effect UIs, expanded plugin support, Effect Presets, SRC controls, Playlist sort columns, better window management, external audio interface handling, and visual refinement. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, DSD and APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.

2.9.2 adds fault tolerance while waiting for devices and cloud licensing on-boot for restoring effect chains. extra protection against unstable plugins. 2.9.1 makes working with Audio Unit plug-ins quicker and steadier. Opening an effect slot is now instant — your plug-ins appear at once while the system scans quietly in the background — and a slow or unresponsive plug-in no longer holds everything up: each is given a moment to respond, then set aside if it doesn't, so Fidelia stays responsive and steps around it the next time you reach for it. 2.9.0 adds an album art view. Switch the library between the song list and a cover-art wall, then open any album to a full page — the cover lifts into place, and the page is lit by a slow, breathing gradient drawn from the artwork, kept dark so it never glares. The now-playing fidelity light shows at a glance how cleanly a track is reaching your ears; tap it for the full signal path, every stage from the source file through resampling, processing, and dither to your output device. Artist, genre, and composer become linked credits — tap one to refocus the library around it — and an album's Play button plays just that album. A now-playing panel keeps the cover, scrubber, and transport in the sidebar as you browse. Recent 2.x updates brought accented-character library sorting, more resilient handling of bad-actor plugin licensing, hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing on the main player, pre/post-effects metering, post-fader metering, silent scrub, drag/drop autoplay, stronger metadata fallback handling, default Effect UIs, expanded plugin support, Effect Presets, SRC controls, Playlist sort columns, better window management, external audio interface handling, and visual refinement. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, DSD and APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.

2.9.1 makes working with Audio Unit plug-ins quicker and steadier. Opening an effect slot is now instant — your plug-ins appear at once while the system scans quietly in the background — and a slow or unresponsive plug-in no longer holds everything up: each is given a moment to respond, then set aside if it doesn't, so Fidelia stays responsive and steps around it the next time you reach for it. 2.9.0 adds an album art view. Switch the library between the song list and a cover-art wall, then open any album to a full page — the cover lifts into place, and the page is lit by a slow, breathing gradient drawn from the artwork, kept dark so it never glares. The now-playing fidelity light shows at a glance how cleanly a track is reaching your ears; tap it for the full signal path, every stage from the source file through resampling, processing, and dither to your output device. Artist, genre, and composer become linked credits — tap one to refocus the library around it — and an album's Play button plays just that album. A now-playing panel keeps the cover, scrubber, and transport in the sidebar as you browse. Recent 2.x updates brought accented-character library sorting, more resilient handling of bad-actor plugin licensing, hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing on the main player, pre/post-effects metering, post-fader metering, silent scrub, drag/drop autoplay, stronger metadata fallback handling, default Effect UIs, expanded plugin support, Effect Presets, SRC controls, Playlist sort columns, better window management, external audio interface handling, and visual refinement. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, DSD and APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.

2.9.0 adds an album art view. Switch the library between the song list and a cover-art wall, then open any album to a full page — the cover lifts into place, and the page is lit by a slow, breathing gradient drawn from the artwork, kept dark so it never glares. The now-playing fidelity light shows at a glance how cleanly a track is reaching your ears; tap it for the full signal path, every stage from the source file through resampling, processing, and dither to your output device. Artist, genre, and composer become linked credits — tap one to refocus the library around it — and an album's Play button plays just that album. A now-playing panel keeps the cover, scrubber, and transport in the sidebar as you browse. Recent 2.x updates brought accented-character library sorting, more resilient handling of bad-actor plugin licensing, hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing on the main player, pre/post-effects metering, post-fader metering, silent scrub, drag/drop autoplay, stronger metadata fallback handling, default Effect UIs, expanded plugin support, Effect Presets, SRC controls, Playlist sort columns, better window management, external audio interface handling, and visual refinement. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, DSD and APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.

2.8.8 improves library sorting for accented characters and handles more bad-actor plugin licensing cases. Recent 2.x updates brought hardened AU host handling with automatic support for even more plugins, self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), mouse-wheel scrubbing on the main player, pre/post-effects metering, post-fader metering, silent scrub, drag/drop autoplay, stronger metadata fallback handling, default Effect UIs, expanded plugin support, Effect Presets, SRC controls, Playlist sort columns, better window management, external audio interface handling, and visual refinement. Fidelia 2 is a complete rebuild. The app is rewritten in Swift on a new C++ audio engine with no legacy dependencies, while keeping the familiar interface intact. Fidelia Advanced features are now built into the core app. The rebuilt DSP engine adds mastering-grade processing including psychoacoustic dither, frequency-dependent headphone crossfeed, and dual-engine reference sample rate conversion. Fidelia 2 also adds batch artwork lookup, format conversion with dither, Music.app sync, DSD and APE import to Apple Lossless without loss of dynamic range, expanded Fidelia Remote controls, and truly gapless playback.