PhaseShift vs vPlayer HiFi

PhaseShift is a private, high-fidelity music player built for the music you own. Import your collection, organize it your way, and enjoy detailed playback without accounts, ads, tracking, or reliance on streaming services. PLAY YOUR COLLECTION Import music from Files, iCloud Drive, USB storage, your computer over Wi-Fi, or folders on WebDAV and SMB network shares. Use folders in place or copy tracks into PhaseShift. Browse songs, albums, artists, genres, playlists, recently added music, and pinned favorites. Customize your library shelves and artwork sizes to suit your collection. HIGH-FIDELITY AUDIO Play MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, DSF, and DFF files. See the active signal path, sample rate, bit depth, and output route while listening. Native DSD decoding and optional DSD over PCM support help you get more from compatible audio hardware. MAKE PLAYBACK YOURS Build and edit the queue, enjoy gapless playback, view synced or plain lyrics, set a sleep timer, and use A-B repeat or track bookmarks. Choose from customizable themes and visualizers, scrub with a real waveform, and fine-tune sound with a 10-band equalizer, ReplayGain, crossfade, headphone crossfeed, and correction profiles. ORGANIZE AND EDIT Create regular and smart playlists, sort and filter your library, edit tags and artwork, apply batch changes, and import CUE sheets as individual tracks. PhaseShift can write supported ratings and play counts back to your audio files, helping your collection remain portable. YOUR LIBRARY ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Pair your own devices with a QR code or pairing code, then sync music, playlists, artwork, ratings, play history, and tag changes over your local network. Sync your whole library or selected artists and playlists, and choose the audio quality stored on each sub device while keeping the primary library in control. Back up and restore library data whenever you choose. MORE WAYS TO LISTEN Control playback from Apple Watch, use Now Playing and Recently Added widgets, follow playback with a Live Activity, and start common actions with Siri and Shortcuts. On Mac, choose an audio output device directly in PhaseShift. PRIVATE BY DESIGN PhaseShift is designed to work offline. Your listening history and library stay under your control, and local transfer and device sync do not require an internet account. PhaseShift includes a capable free experience. PhaseShift Pro is available as a one-time in-app purchase and unlocks advanced features including the equalizer, ReplayGain, crossfade, waveform overview, A-B repeat, bookmarks, listening statistics, premium themes and visualizers, Apple Watch control, CUE import, batch find and replace, backups, and multi-device sync.

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.