A server that’s off stays quiet When some of your music lives on another computer or a NAS that’s switched off, Fidelia leaves it alone until you press Play on one of its tracks, then tries it once, with no connection alerts in between. Also • Right after a seek, Play, Previous and the Seek commands act from the new place, and Fidelia Remote and Now Playing show it. • A CD-quality track converted to FLAC stays 16-bit. • Bridge sends your iPhone a lighter copy over a slow connection, and with Fidelia 2.1.3 there, a multi-artist album you ripped yourself stays one album. 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 playlists stay put Playlists and folders that share a name, like an “Albums” folder under each artist or two untitled playlists, now all come back when you reopen Fidelia. Before, all but one of each could disappear due to a tidying process. Also • A folder you give Fidelia access to, for its album covers and for editing tags, stays granted. • Albums whose covers wait on a folder Fidelia can’t open are listed in Settings ▸ General, with Grant Access… beside 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.

Unchecked songs stay unchecked A song you’ve unchecked in Music is now passed by when an album or playlist plays through, in order or shuffled, as Music does. It still plays when you choose it, or when you add it with Play Next or Add to Queue. Also • VoiceOver and Voice Control can press the player’s buttons and select sidebar rows. • ⌘[ takes you back from an album’s page. • Seeking in a track from a music server goes quiet until it lands, instead of playing on from the old spot. • If a streamer goes quiet after a network hiccup, Fidelia gives it the music again, or stops and says why, instead of showing it as still playing. • Fidelia’s uses memory even more efficiently. • Help ▸ Send Diagnostic Report shows what it’s gathering, and opens your mail when it’s done or when you click Send Now. 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.

Ask for your music Turn on Settings ▸ Agent, then ask Claude, Codex or another AI app for "some Irish trad", "the album I got yesterday" or "something by Planxty". Fidelia finds it in the music you own and plays it. Shortcuts has Fidelia actions too, and Fidelia can open at login, ready in the menu bar. Your other player's notes come with you The dynamic range, loudness, ReplayGain and star ratings other players wrote into your files now show in Get Info and as sortable columns. To bring them into a library you already have, add your music folder again. Also • Northlight's colours glide as you move from playlist to playlist. • Sort the # column either way. • Playlist edits and Play Next reach a bit-perfect streamer straight away. • A music server that moves to a new address is found again. 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.

No yawning. Fidelia now has the option (in Settings → General → Fidelia Bridge) to “Keep Mac awake for Bridge.”, so it can serve as an always-available music server for Fidelia on iPhone - even when out and about and connected via VPN. 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.

New music in your folders, found. A folder you import is now watched: albums you copy into it later appear in your library on their own, with no need to import the folder again. Music added on this Mac shows up within seconds, a drive is checked each time you connect it, and a network folder when Fidelia opens and every few hours. Folders your library already lives in are listed in Settings › General, ready to watch — nothing is watched until you choose it. Tracks you delete from your library stay deleted, and renaming or rearranging folders keeps your tracks and playlists instead of adding them twice. File › Check for New Music checks everything right away. Tag edits from other apps, picked up. Change a track’s tags in a tag editor and Fidelia shows the change, even when the file stays the same size. A field you changed in Get Info stays as you left it, unless the other app changes that same field. Lighter on big libraries. Fidelia no longer looks at every file in your library each time you come back to it. On your Mac it follows the changes macOS keeps a record of, and a network share is checked a little at a time. Also in this release: a streamer that’s slow to report its progress is no longer stopped as if it had refused the music. 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.

Add to Playlist, everywhere. Right-click any track, any album cover on the Wall or an album’s page, or the cover of what’s playing, and choose Add to Playlist, or start a new playlist from there. File › New Playlist from Selection (⇧⌘N) makes a playlist of the tracks you’ve selected. Fidelia tells you what it added, and which tracks were already in the playlist. Your smart playlists from Music. Smart playlists you made in the Music app now appear in Fidelia beside your other Music playlists, with the tracks Music has chosen for them that are on your Mac. Music’s built-in lists, like Music, Movies and TV Shows, stay out. Also in this release: Fidelia for iPhone 2.0.14 can play this Mac’s music when you’re away from home, over Tailscale or another VPN connecting the two. 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.

One streamer, shared. Pick a streamer that’s already playing — from Fidelia on your iPhone or another Mac, or another UPnP app — and Fidelia shows what’s on it and whose it is, and the player’s controls act on that music. Choose something to play and it takes over, and an up-to-date Fidelia it took over from steps aside instead of competing. If the streamer stops partway through a song on its own, Fidelia stops too instead of moving on to another song, and Play picks up where you were. Your Mac stays awake for the album. While your music plays on a streamer, your Mac no longer goes to sleep partway through. The display still sleeps as usual, and closing the lid still puts your Mac to sleep. Imports you can follow and cancel. The X on the Importing tracks message now cancels the import, and nothing from a cancelled import is added. Anything you add while one runs waits its turn — the message says how many are queued — and when an import ends, the message stays up to say how many tracks it imported, or that they were already in your library. Lighter on your Mac. With its windows hidden, Fidelia now uses about a quarter of the processor time it did while playing to a streamer, and the Library and mini player cost less while they’re on screen. Also in this release: picking a streamer someone else is playing on no longer changes its volume, a streamer that fell asleep after a Pause wakes for your next album, and Fidelia no longer limits a streamer to lower sample rates after a stop that had nothing to do with the rate. 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 covers insist: stay with their albums. Changing an album's title, artist or album artist in Get Info keeps its cover, and deleting some of an album's tracks leaves the rest with theirs. Drop a cover into Get Info. The cover at the top of Get Info now takes a new one: drop an image file on it, or drag one straight from your browser, and it's saved with your other edits when you click Save — for the whole album, or for every album in a multi-song selection. Music app tracks keep the cover Music gives them. Replaced tracks, found. When you replace tracks in the Music app with new files — an iTunes purchase swapped for its lossless version, say — Fidelia finds the new files on its next sync. Date Added on the Wall. The Album Wall's sort control adds Date Added, so the albums you added most recently can lead the grid. Your Mac now sends Fidelia on iPhone and iPad the date each track entered your library, so Date Added sorts your Mac's music there the same way. Also in this release: Send Diagnostic Report works with any mail app. With Apple Mail the files are attached as before; with any other, Fidelia starts the message and shows the report in Finder as one file to drag in. A playlist you drop into a folder you've just made shows its tracks straight away. Get Info shows a music server's tracks as read-only, because the server owns them, but still takes a cover for their album. 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 library, ready in minutes. Importing a large library is many times faster, in every format — tens of thousands of tracks are in your library in minutes. Your streamer, awake when you press play. Fidelia keeps its own picture of what your network streamer is doing. A box that has gone to sleep is shown as away and woken by your next Play, and it stays your chosen output until you pick another. A seek starts it playing from the point you asked for, Back and the scrubber work once an album has finished, and the volume knob follows the level the box itself is holding. Peak and RMS, side by side. The Meters window shows both for every channel: a peak that holds long enough to read, and an RMS level that matches what professional meters show. The bars rise and fall in real time whatever else your Mac is doing, and they cost it almost nothing. Every channel on its own speaker. Immersive albums — 7.1.4, and Atmos from 5.1.2 to 9.1.6 — now automatically play every channel from the speaker it belongs to, side surrounds and overhead pairs included. Conversion settings that mean what they say. Filter Phase now shapes conversion exactly as it reads: Minimum leaves no pre-ringing, and Linear keeps timing even across the band. Cutoff Scaling moves the filter on both engines, and each quality setting has been tuned to live up to its name. Ultra now selects Mastering, and Steep, No Aliasing selects Steep, Linear Phase — in each case the setting it always matched. Also in this release: Refresh Artwork on any album cover picks up a cover you've changed on disk, and plug-ins have room to work at the highest sample rates, so even a demanding convolver plays cleanly. Delete from Library asks before it removes anything, and removes only what Fidelia imported — your Music library and your servers' tracks stay where they are. 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.

Bring your playlists. Import M3U playlists from other players from the File menu, or drop them onto Fidelia or its Dock icon. Fidelia finds every track it can — even from a playlist made on another computer, or before you converted your music — and tells you plainly about any it can't. Take them with you. Export one playlist, a selection, or all of them at once, ready for another player or kept as a backup of everything you've arranged. Your covers come first. An album's own cover, in its files or its folder, always comes first, then your own music servers, and only then the web. With online lookups switched off, Fidelia still reads every cover you already have, and Find Artwork runs whenever you ask. Also in this release: pausing, or a brief network hiccup, never cuts a track short on a network streamer, and each track ends precisely where it should before the next begins. 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 queue, the moment you change it. Play Next, removals and shuffle take effect straight away, whether you're listening on your Mac or on a network streamer. Every track to its final note. When a gapless album moves between sample rates, each track now plays all the way to its end before the next one begins. One Tuneshine, shared. Pressing play on any Fidelia puts what it's playing on a shared Tuneshine, and another Fidelia won't take the display away until you press play there. Also in this release: moving your music from one network streamer to another is a clean handoff. 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 album art, on a display of its own. Fidelia now sends the cover of whatever is playing to Tuneshine, a novel lo-fi screen that shows the record you're listening to. Fidelia finds the displays on your network, and it can drive more than one at a time. Levels land exactly at the track change. With ReplayGain on, the next track's level is applied at the precise sample the music changes over, instead of a moment afterwards. A gapless album moves from one track to the next without a step in loudness. A mixed-rate album plays straight through. A gapless run now ends cleanly at a change of sample rate — in Fidelia's own queue as well as at the streamer — so an album that moves between rates plays each track at the rate it was made in. Also in this release: Fidelia notices when a plug-in has stopped affecting the sound, after an audio interface restarts for instance, and reloads it for you. 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.

Tune a band by ear. The Equalizer shows each band's true center frequency and Q instead of a rounded label, and you can drag either one while the music plays. Also in this release: improved support for playing network server tracks to streamers, including gapless playback across an album and more responsive transport controls mid-stream. A Lyrion player now releases its session cleanly when you go and listen elsewhere. 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.

Every output remembers its own sound. Correction belongs to the transducer: the EQ you tuned for your headphones is simply wrong on your monitors. Each output now keeps its own Equalizer and HeadSpace settings, and Fidelia restores them the moment you switch devices. Set your headphone correction once, and it's waiting every time you plug them in — with your speakers left exactly as you had them. HeadSpace, without leaving the music. A headphone glyph now sits in the transport strip beside DIM. Switching from monitors to headphones mid-record no longer means opening Settings — one click engages the crossfeed, and the setting stays with that output. Any music server, including the quiet ones. Servers that don't announce themselves — or that live on another part of your network — can now be added by address, and Fidelia works out how to talk to them. Plex, MinimServer, Lyrion and other UPnP libraries all arrive the same way, and the app no longer offers Lyrion-specific advice to people running something else. Also in this release: large server libraries read more steadily, a scan that stops early tells you why, one folder a server declines to share no longer costs you the rest of the library, and libraries that picked up duplicate entries tidy themselves on the next 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.

The Equalizer arrives. A ten-band graphic EQ, built into Fidelia's listening chain and living in its own Equalizer tab in Settings. Familiar presets, tuned by us. The preamp manages headroom automatically, so boosted bands never clip. And it doesn't cost you anything — your Audio Unit slots stay free for other work. Correct your headphones with AutoEQ. Import Profile… reads the corrections the AutoEQ project publishes for thousands of headphone models. Paste in your pair's profile and Fidelia applies it exactly. Your import is remembered, so you can try the presets and jump back to your correction anytime. And as always, the signal path tells the truth: the Equalizer appears as its own stage when it's shaping your sound, and claims nothing when it's flat or off. 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 own artwork comes first. Fidelia looks for the cover in your album's own folder before it looks anywhere else — folder.jpg, cover.jpg, whatever your library keeps — so the art you chose is the art you see. It does this by itself: open this version and covers fill in as Fidelia works through your library, starting with whatever is on screen. Music kept on a server is treated the same way, and a server's own artwork is preferred over anything from the internet. Asked once, for everything. When your music lives somewhere Fidelia needs your permission to read, it asks a single time — for the one folder that covers your whole library, rather than one album at a time — and remembers the answer. Find Artwork Online searches the way Fidelia does. The menu command now runs the same search as the automatic one: your own server's art first, then the Cover Art Archive, then Apple. Asking for an album by name always looks again, however recently it was searched. 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 Music library is never behind. Sync Now reads Music and applies what it finds, every time you ask. Fidelia's record always describes what is really there, and any library that has fallen behind catches up the first time you open this version. Playlists land where you expect them. Bridge names what it copies, and where it starts. Its Settings section carries its own name and states on screen what Bridge takes from this Mac and which device begins the 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 Music library keeps up. Sync Now reads Music and applies what it finds, every time you ask. Fidelia's record of what it holds is written once the writing is done, so it always describes what is really there — and any library that has fallen behind catches up the first time you open this version. Playlists land where you expect them. Fidelia Bridge says what it does. Its section in Settings now carries its own name, and states on screen what Bridge copies from this Mac and which device to start the sync from. 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 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.