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Hello! I would like to suggest adding an DSD output to the player. Your player is one of the highest quality ones that I found for Android, it would be ideal if it could play DSD without translation into PCM.

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While it's possible to read DSD, it would need to be decoded to PCM for internal processing (EQ, crossfade, gapless, ReplayGain, etc). PA does not have the ability to pass-through raw file data directly.

Andre

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Currently Poweramp always decode to PCM to handle the audio stream uniformly. Even with the exclusive USB-DAC support potentially added to Poweramp, the DSD playback will either require 2 conversions for eq/dsp to work (a pointless battery killer), or all dsp including software volume, DVC, replay gain, etc. will be disabled during such playback, resulting in very rough experience. 

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