Metasonic Player vs vPlayer HiFi

Metasonic Player is a focused audio player for local music files and your Apple Music library. See full metadata while you listen, including artist, album, composer, genre, year, track number, comments, file type, and more. Open audio directly from Files, or browse your Library by playlists, artists, albums, songs, genres, and composers. Build queues by selecting tracks in the order you want. Add tracks one by one, use Select All, shuffle the queue, and skip forward or back with precise playback controls. Supports most audio formats including FLAC, WAV, MP3, M4A, AAC, AIFF, and more. Free. No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.

vPlayer HiFi is a dedicated audio player for those who care about sound quality above all else. ▸ Bit‑perfect — Custom AudioUnit pipeline with hardware sample‑rate. vPlayer matches your source rate so the system never touches your signal. ▸ Native DSD Playback — DSF and DFF up to DSD512, decoded through a custom engine with 3 selectable FIR decimation filters (Steep / Gentle / Wide Bandwidth). Choose 176.4kHz or 352.8kHz output. No transcoding, no compromise. ▸ SACD-R ISO Decoder — Native Scarlet Book TOC parser. DSD64 playback with selectable decimation (176.4 kHz or 352.8 kHz). ▸ Memory Playback — Preload entire tracks into a dedicated 600 MB memory buffer — enough to hold a full CD‑length album or a high‑rate DSD track. Eliminates jitter from live file I/O. ▸ Polyphase SRC + FIR Upsampling — 6 SRC algorithms from Linear to Sinc‑512 tap with Kaiser‑windowed polyphase resampling. Independent FIR upsampling at 2× / 4× / 8× with selectable tap count (31 / 63 / 127) and homomorphic Minimum‑Phase conversion. SRC and FIR are mutually exclusive — one clean path, no double‑processing. ▸ Formats — MP3 · AIFF · M4A (Lite). Upgrade to Pro for studio‑grade WAV / FLAC / DSD (DSF, DFF) native playback. ▸ 10‑Band Graphic EQ — ±12 dB manual adjustment with per‑band reference guide. Instant response, zero latency. Toggle on/off directly from the signal chain bar. ▸ 638 AutoEq Headphone Presets — Directly load fixed‑band EQ corrections from the oratory1990 measurement database. Pick your brand, pick your model, done. Preamp is auto‑computed to prevent clipping. ▸ Parametric EQ (PEQ) — Full 10-band parametric equalizer: frequency, Q, and gain per band, with peaking, low-shelf, and high-shelf filters. Replaces the graphic EQ for surgical control. 13 Music Genre Presets — Classical, jazz, vocal, rock/pop, and folk tone shaping, crafted for vPlayer. ▸ Room EQ — Measure your room with a sine sweep and apply automatic correction, with Flat or Warm target curves. ▸ Output Covered — Built‑in speaker, wired headphones, AirPlay, Bluetooth, and external USB DAC. vPlayer detects your active route and matches the hardware sample rate automatically. ▸ Hands‑On Signal Chain — DSD · MEM · SRC ⊕ FIR · EQ · DITH. Tap any chip to open its config panel — switch DSD filters, choose SRC algorithms, set FIR parameters, adjust EQ. Real‑time route detection shows your output device. ▸ Shazam Recognition — Identify any music playing around you with one tap. Built on Apple ShazamKit. ▸ Music Painting — Generative art engine. Every track paints a unique visual — Constellation or Impression style. Save and browse your gallery. ▸ Drag album folders via Finder or iTunes to the App's sharing folder. Pull down to refresh. Swipe to delete. Folders are auto‑detected. ▸ Dual Theme — Dark & Silver. Tap the vPlayer title to switch.