If you need High Quality Lossles HiRes Audio output, then dont use Winamp, Windows Media Player, VLC, Foobar for music, instead use these. They offer higher quality listening experience.
In its simplest terms, hi-res audio tends to refer to music files that have a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than CD, which is specified at 16-bit/44.1kHz.
Sampling frequency (or sample rate) refers to the number of times samples of the signal are taken per second during the analogue-to-digital conversion process. The more bits there are, the more accurately the signal can be measured in the first instance, so going from 16-bit to 24-bit can deliver a noticeable leap in quality. Hi-res audio files usually use a sampling frequency of 96kHz or 192kHz at 24-bit, but you can also have 88.2kHz and 176.4kHz files too.
Hi-res audio does come with a downside, though: file size. A hi-res file can typically be tens of megabytes in size, and a few tracks can quickly eat up the storage on your device or be cumbersome to stream over your wi-fi or mobile network. These large file sizes have been why Bluetooth hasn’t yet been able to pass through hi-res audio without lossy compression yet.
Though Winyl has not been developed since 2019, we still feel it sounded the best (even in 2023). We dont know what makes it sound better, but it sure does.
Winyl
Digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.
Dopamine HiRes Player
Dopamine is an Open Source audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
Vinyl Music Player
Vinyl Music Player is a fork of the open source Phonograph Music Player, but keeps all features free after Phonograph moved some previously free features to a paid Pro version. Vinyl Music Player removes all the paywalls and enables pro features such as folder view, sleep timer and a dark theme.
Sony
Hi-Res Audio Player for Windows. Supoorts on WASAPI
HySolid Lossles
It is compatible with both ASIO and WASAPI (exclusive mode). It enables the bit-perfect reproduction of the sound. DSD plays in ASIO native method with ASIO, and in DoP method with WASAPI.
AIMP
AIMP is powerful free audio player for Windows OS that supports for local files, NAS, clouds, and podcasts. Additionally, it includes powerful tools to operate with audio files.
Strawberry
It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles
Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
MusicBee
MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.
MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is a music player and a music library manager with support for 50,000+ files and many features for organizing, tagging, converting and burning your music
