![]() ![]() ![]() Quick and reactive control/song selection and playback Gapless playback and control via app based programs Paired with your USB DAC or PCI spdif/soundcard of choice and you have yourself a "super affordable" audiophile PC transport. Vortexbox can be installed on just about any old PC you may have lying around, turning it into a music streaming, NAS serving, CD ripping bit perfect music solution. ![]() VortexBox rips CD's to FLAC while allowing mirror copies of the files in lossy MP3 formats MP3 320, MP3 V0, MP3 V2, MP3 plus Apple's loss-less codec ALAC (M4A). A free open source bit perfect headless music player and CD ripper. Yet as I get a little older and hopefully wiser, my willingness to compromise ultimate sound quality for a little convenience becomes more appealing. NO DS, KS, or WASAPI support is provisioned cMP only provides ASIO compatibility for windows mixer bypass.Cue sheets are mandatory for album or playlist creation.Consider using modern solutions if this is a key requirement cMP2 is not a management solution for large music libraries.cMP2 is free to try, but so is Vortexbox, Daphile, Volumio, MusicBee, JLP, MQN, etc etc.Pretty old skool operation, no album art or headless operation.cMP2 requires registry tweaks for best possible performance - not for everyone.cMP2 has very detailed setup/installation instructions, more modern packages are more easily installed.cMP2 has great bass tone although slightly less in weight when compared to MPD Linux setups.cMP2 cPlay feels more analog than Vortexbox, Vortexbox is more dynamic.cMP2 imaging is more centered than Vortexbox, however Vortexbox presents a wider and 'more' 3D image.Playpcmwin is comparable in quality to cMP2 without all the installation fuss.However software packages such as JLP, Daphile present a more convenient modern approach, with minimalist headless operation and large library management. ![]() cMP2 cPlay clearly provides a low jitter PC rendering solution.MQN has redefined what is both possible and expected from a highend minimalist PC software player, MQN is the clear leader in PC audio playback.cMP2 optimises essential windows XP & 7 architecture, ready for cPlay (the player) to play your music files. Maximum tracks in cue sheet, 160 (including track splits)Įssentially cMP2 operates as a bootable and highly configured windows shell, which was highly optimised over 3 years for high quality audio playback and low resource usage. Minimum Processor, "Pentium 4" type (SSE2) (core iX 32nm recommended) Please note KS, DS, WASAPI are not supported VST Support VST 2.4.2, Single low-latency plugin design, ( 2-in/max 8-out, 32 float, clipped)Īudio Output, 32 bit ASIO 2.2 (and backward compatible) Polarity Phase 0/180 selectable "in flight" Multi-Stage Interpolation via "SoX-14.2.0" (VHQ/HQ selectable) (175db/125db rejection) (clipping, if needed, done after attenuation)Īttenuation in 0.5db steps (53 bit resolution)īalance Control in 0.1db steps L eft(-ve), Right(+ve) (53 bit resolution) Multi-core (semaphores at hardware level)īandlimited Interpolation via "libsamplerate-0.1.5 (SRC)" o r (145db/121db SNR selectable) (154db/120db rejection) Multi-threaded (event driven architecture) Lets have a look at the software specs (Taken from cMP2 website).Ģ8 bit processing (SIMD & streaming used) The only draw back was the PC configuration, optimisations & modifications both hardware and software which were required to assist cMP2 to perform at its audiophile best. was considered vastly better than its competitors or mainstream digital sources such as the Logitech squeezebox which was around at the same time. The cMP2 cPlay website describes how to build and configure a PC music player & PC transport costing around $1,000 (In 2008 dollars) that exceeds the performance of the very best CD transports at that time.Ī promise of a PC spdif output with less than 50pico seconds of jitter. Now for those PC audiophiles that have been wrapped up in the world of Foobar2000 or Jplay, its possible you may have never heard of/or tried cMP2. Nothing could really rival the sound quality cMP2 was providing with its combined software and hardware computer transport solution. cMP2 provided fairly novice PC audio buffs with a rendering package that really stood head and shoulders above everything else available at that time. CMP2 had what I would consider a cult following which started around 2008. ![]()
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