Fidelia
macOS / Musique
Fidelia is the audiophile music player for Mac. It plays your music the way it was recorded — with no compression, no quality loss, and no compromise.
Version 2.0: Completely rebuilt. Mastering-grade DSP built in.
Fidelia 2.0 ships with three DSP processors that audio engineers pay hundreds of dollars for as standalone plugins — built into the player at no extra cost.
HeadSpace — Frequency-Dependent Headphone Processing
Headphones are unnatural. Your left ear should hear your right speaker, and vice versa — but with headphones, that doesn't happen. HeadSpace corrects this with frequency-dependent crossfeed modeled on real head acoustics: bass crosses at 90%, mids at 50%, highs at 15%. The result is a soundstage that sounds like speakers in a room, not two drivers against your ears.
Pro Dither — Psychoacoustic Noise Shaping
When audio is converted between bit depths, dithering determines whether the noise floor disappears or becomes audible. Fidelia uses a 9th-order psychoacoustic noise shaper tuned to ISO 226 equal-loudness contours — the same approach used by the dither processors licensed by Pro Tools and Logic. The noise floor drops below the threshold of hearing. This is mastering-grade dither, built in.
Reference Sample Rate Conversion
If your library is at 96 kHz and your DAC runs at 48 kHz, that conversion matters. Fidelia uses linear-phase resampling and minimum-phase engines, the same used by Reaper, Audacity, and professional mastering suites. Fidelia includes both engines, with five quality presets and fine-grained advanced controls.
Bit-Perfect & Exclusive Mode
In bit-perfect mode, source bits go directly to your DAC — no processing, no conversion. Exclusive mode locks the output device to Fidelia, bypassing the OS mixer entirely. Same behavior as dedicated audiophile hardware.
3 Audio Unit Plugin Slots
Load any Audio Unit plugin installed on your Mac into one of three effect slots. EQ, reverb, compression, spatial processors — anything. Enable, disable, and open plugin GUIs without leaving Fidelia. Preset state saves across sessions. No other standalone music player does this.
Built for Large Libraries
Version 2.0 adds batch artwork lookup. Select your untagged albums, choose Find Artwork Online, and Fidelia finds, downloads, and embeds the artwork for the entire selection. If you prefer, drag images onto the Now Playing panel to tag a whole album in one drop. For a large ripped library, that's hours of cleanup gone.
Everything Else
• Gapless playback rebuilt from the ground up — no gaps, no clicks at track boundaries
• Multi-channel output routing (up to 48 channels) for multi-output interfaces
• Format conversion to AIFF, WAV, FLAC, Apple Lossless, AAC, CAF
• DSD import (DSF → Apple Lossless 24/176.4 kHz) and Monkey's Audio (APE → Apple Lossless) — your whole library, in one place
• Music.app library sync
• 5 player sizes including Mini Player
• Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Player-library window docking — the library snaps to the player and follows it
Supported Formats
Lossless: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), CAF
DSD: DSF (imported and converted to Apple Lossless 24-bit/176.4 kHz)
Lossy: MP3, AAC, OGG Vorbis, Opus
Also supported: AC3, Sound Designer II, AU/SND, Wave64
APE files are converted to Apple Lossless at source sample rate and bit depth on import. DSD files (DSF) are converted to Apple Lossless 24-bit/176.4 kHz on import — audiophile-grade, lossless conversion.
Fidelia Remote — the iOS companion app for Fidelia — is free on the App Store.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
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.
