How Plex Chome player plays Hi-Res audio (dsd/dsf)?

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Good day guys,

Recently found out that Plex supports dsd/dsf playback. Just wondering how it is possible to do native hi-res playback via Chrome and if Plex actually doing that? Or it does lossy convert to what Chome supports (flac?)?

Thanks!

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It’s a lossy conversion. There is currently no reliable way to play DSF as it’s supposed to (bitstreaming the DSD data to a suitable DAC).

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What does it convert to? I hope at least flac?
Does Windows Plex Media Player plays it natively?

Thanks!

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Depends on the client type. But it defaults to lossy codecs.

No Plex client can play DSD currently “correctly”.
Plexamp at least plays it without converting it to a lossy codec first.
But it cannot stream the DSD data to a suitable DAC (which IMO is the correct way to treat DSD – otherwise you may as well convert it into flac and save some space).

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