January Progress Report

I did hope to release the update at the end of January, but I still have a bit of work to do in order to not disappoint the lot of you who have been waiting for this for more than a year now. Highlights since the last report:

  • RAM Disk support with automatic playlist management
  • Loop Menu has been added to the main window, next to the EQ button
    it is also gone from the Preferences > Playlist section
  • New loop/repeat options have been added
  • Per device options that can be saved permanently:
    • DoP sending mode
    • DSD DoP treshold: if your DAC only supports DSD64 then you can tell Colibri to use PCM for anything above that
    • PCM Bypass
    • Separate volume controls for Device and Colibri’s mixer output
    • DSD silence multiplexing: eliminate most of the annoying pops during DSD track change when using DoP/DoPA mode
  • Seek bar now has FPS controls: yes, it’s ridiculous but it is a thing – you can now control how many times the playhead position is updated and animated. Why? To save system resources.
  • Redraw cycles have been reconstructed: Colibri uses even less CPU since the last post (same machine that saw 5-7% usage is now down to 2-3%)
  • Bit Rate column is now available in the Playlist: it is called ‘kbps’
  • Volume and Seek Bar knobs can be turned off for a sleeker look

I need a bit more time to polish all the rough edges of the per-profile device feature – after that, a final test run and hopefully I can finally release the update. It will be marked as the 2.0 version – please bear with me!