All music is stored under D:\Music.
Audio formats
Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
This is a one bit recording format.
Super Audio CD (SACD)
This is a higher quality compact disc.
The SACD utilizes DSD.
An ISO from a SACDs can have up to three “sections”, CD audio, SACD stereo, and SACD multichannel. However, there are plenty of stereo only SACDs and also plenty of SACDs with no Redbook CD layer.
DSF, DFF (file extension .dsf)
DSF and DFF are DSD audio files (e.g. extracted from as SACD).
DSF has the ability to hold metadata, while DFF doesn’t, however, some players only read DFF files. In the PCM world, DSF and DFF would be similar to having .wav and .aiff files which are both PCM based.
DST
A lossless compression format for DSD tracks.
Vorbis text comment header
A specification to add meta data to an audio file. The information is basically a list of key/value pairs. See https://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html for the specification.
This type of header is a.o. used in FLAC files.
Playing audio
From your PC
Connect your PC with an HDMI cable to your receiver. This will give the quality of your audio installation and the flexibility or your PC.
Multi channel audio can also be played if you install DTS Sound Unbound (unfortunately on my PC this doesn’t work anymore).
Converting audi files
Acknowledgements
Some information on this page comes from hiresedition.com.