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.

2.8.7 improves upon sorting (such as cleanly handling no-artist+no-album tracks) and playback queuing edge 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.

2.8.6 brings optimizations to Music.app sync that will be especially apparent on large libraries. 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.

2.8.5 brings back the classic size. A new Player Window scale control (Settings → General) takes the player from its standard size up to 200% — the original Fidelia 1 dimensions — with the brushed-metal artwork re-rendered at full resolution so it stays sharp all the way up. This update also makes channel routing follow the output device itself rather than its session identity, so multichannel routing stays correct across restarts, and plugin slots now remember and retry a plugin that couldn't load — after a macOS security re-approval, for example — instead of forgetting it. 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.

2.8.4 further hardens AU host handling and expands automatic support for even more plugins. Recent 2.x updates brought 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.

2.8.3 increases protection against insecure AU plugins crashing and improves upon migrations from 1.x libraries Recent 2.x updates brought 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.

2.8.2 covers more track metadata edge cases, and even finer gapless transitions for flawless live album listening. Recent 2.x updates brought 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.

Fidelia is now free to download. A 14-day trial gives you full access to the app, a one-time purchase unlocks it permanently. No subscription. Existing customers are grandfathered automatically — your purchase carries forward, nothing to do. Recent 2.x updates brought self-healing external volumes, expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), restored 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.

Fidelia is now free to download. A 14-day trial gives you full access to the app, a one-time purchase unlocks it permanently. No subscription. Existing customers are grandfathered automatically — your purchase carries forward, nothing to do. Right-click anywhere in the playlist sidebar to create a new playlist or folder. Recent 2.x updates brought self-healing external volumes (no more gray tracks after a drive remount), expanded artwork extraction (FLAC PICTURE blocks, Ogg METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE, more folder layouts), restored 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.

Self-heal of changing external volume names (for tracks that go gray after a drive remount). Expanded artwork metadata support. Recent 2.x updates also brought 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.

Library playlist folders, track Get Info now editable to the stored tracks. Recent 2.x updates also brought 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.