Every bit accounted for.
A music system for people who own their music. Play your library to any output in the house and see, for every track, exactly what happened to the audio on the way: which stages touched it, what arrived at the device, and whether the result is bit-perfect.
UPnP AV / DLNA · OpenHome · Sonos and groups · WASAPI exclusive · ASIO · AirPlay 2 · Chromecast · Spotify Connect · multi-room sync across brands, coming
Local folders · SMB · NFS · WebDAV · SFTP and FTP · S3 and B2 · UPnP media servers · CDs · internet radio · TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer and cloud drives, coming
FLAC · ALAC · WAV · AIFF · WavPack · APE · DSF and DFF (DSD64 to DSD256 over DoP) · Opus · Ogg · AAC · MP3 · PCM to 768 kHz
Your music, one honest core, every output.
Verity reads your library where it lives, decodes only when it has to, and hands each device exactly what it can take. Watch the bits travel.
Pick a file. Pick an output. Verity tells you the truth.
This is the same model the player uses, applied to the rules in the manual. Every stage is named. If the bits change, you see where and why. Try the combinations other players keep quiet about.
Bytes pass through unchanged.
Bytes are relayed unchanged by a process in the path, such as the stream server.
Compressed audio is unpacked to PCM. Lossless codecs give back the original samples exactly.
Bits are repacked into another framing without changing them: DSD over PCM.
The sample rate or the bit depth changed.
Encoded again, lossless or lossy, for a transport that needs it.
The level was reduced in software: DSP volume or levelling.
A DSP stage you switched on touched the samples.
The device decodes on its own; what it does after that, nobody outside can see.
The nine words the player uses for every stage, straight from its source. A verdict is only "bit-perfect" when nothing but untouched, relayed, decoded and repacked appears between the file and the device.
Verity asks the hardware. It does not guess.
Before the first note, every output is probed and the result is shown on its card: the method, the rates and bit depths it accepts, and where the ceilings are.
- WASAPI: every rate from 44.1 to 768 kHz at 16, 24 and 32 bits, asked of the driver in exclusive mode without opening the device, so it is safe while music plays.
- ASIO: each sample rate the driver can run, its native sample type, preferred buffer size, output latency in frames, and whether it offers native DSD.
- UPnP: the formats the renderer publishes; Sonos gets its documented 24/48 ceiling and no DSD, said up front.
- DoP ceiling: derived from the PCM limits and labelled "if the DAC decodes DoP", because nothing on the computer can know that.
- Device setup per output: volume mode (auto, fixed, device, DSP), PCM and DSD ceilings, DSD strategy, resync delay, buffer size, zones, transport.
"How it plays" then runs twelve sample formats through the same decision code as the live path, from CD FLAC to DSD256 and internet radio, and shows what each becomes on that output.
300,000 files? Fine. Bring more.
Verity is built for libraries of 300,000 tracks and beyond. The numbers below were measured at 100,000 files on the benchmark in the design notes: 8,000 album folders, 1200 px cover each, local SSD, debug build, 16 workers. Release builds are faster.
Nothing resamples, dithers or attenuates unless you chose it.
The local engine decodes to left-justified integers and hands the driver 16-bit, 24-in-32 or 24-packed containers by dropping zero bits only. No float, no dither, the file's rate or nothing. A live wall-clock ÷ audio-clock ratio proves it: 1.000 is correct.
When a device cannot take a format, the path says so.
A Sonos has a 24/48 ceiling and no DSD. Verity does not pretend; it converts to fit, labels the stage "resampled" and gives the verdict a reason. Fixed volume, offline outputs, unpaired receivers are shown as what they are.
DoP keeps the 1-bit stream intact.
DSF and DFF are packed 16 bits per channel per 24-bit frame with alternating markers. DSD64 rides at 176.4 kHz, DSD256 at 705.6 kHz. The bits are never converted, so the path shows a "repacked" stage and a DSD verdict.
AirPlay 2 is 44.1 kHz / 16-bit. Verity says so.
Our own AirPlay 2 sender does transient and HomeKit PIN pairing for HomePod and AirPlay speakers (Apple TV coming), encrypted control, sealed packets, timing sync. Hi-res is resampled and dithered for that transport, and you see it, rather than a green tick that means nothing.
Zones that behave.
Every output is a zone with its own queue and transport. Choose another output while music plays and the queue, the position and the paused state move with it; a zone already playing its own music is shown, not hijacked. Local outputs play together with drift corrected frame by frame; Sonos groups use Sonos' own sync; grouped zones across brands are coming, AirPlay receivers first because Verity is now the clock master.
- One entry per device, whatever it speaks: a Sonos shows once with its UPnP, AirPlay and Spotify Connect paths, and "Send audio by" picks the path.
- Devices you can name, group and hide, with the computer that owns them on the card, and OFFLINE said plainly when it is away.
- Volume that tells the truth: the device's own control where one exists, DSP volume as a visible stage where not, fixed volume remembered per device when a renderer ignores the slider.
Stations with reasons. A voice that answers.
Start from anything
An artist, a song, an album, a genre, an instrument from the credits ("guitar everywhere"), your favourites, discovery (artists you never played), a sentence through your own AI key, or a mood or activity:
Five dials, every pick explained
Vocals or instrumental, calm or energetic, slow or upbeat, familiar or variety, era strict or open. Scored from what Verity measured in your files: loudness, tempo, brightness, dynamics, plus credits, lyrics and your history. Time of day, the weather outside and the season lean on the choice, and the best master of a recording wins over its duplicates. Every track carries a why line: "by X · rock like the seed · 96 BPM, unhurried · 1961, the seed's era · evening: unwinding".
Say it, offline
Push to talk (Ctrl+M). Speech runs on Windows itself with a grammar built from your library, no cloud. "Play Abbey Road on the Gustard", "a calm station", "what is playing", "why this one", "louder", "switch to the kitchen", "sleep in twenty minutes". Vera answers in one voice, on your computer's speakers, never on the hi-fi chain.
Everything. Not a tier.
A library that keeps up
Local folders, SMB and NFS shares, WebDAV, SFTP, S3 and UPnP servers, watched where they can be. Loudness, true peak, dynamic range, file health, tempo and waveform per track; duplicates by tags and by sound; Chromaprint fingerprints.
Every output in the house
UPnP AV, OpenHome, Sonos groups, WASAPI exclusive, ASIO, AirPlay 2 with HomeKit pairing (Apple TV coming), Chromecast, Spotify Connect. One entry per device, whatever it speaks.
DSP you opt into, always shown
Headroom with a clip counter, loudness compensation, tilt, parametric EQ with AutoEq and REW import, convolution, crossfeed, in-family upsampling, crossfade, presets. Never on DoP. Each stage is its own node in the path.
Fix the tags, keep the old ones
AcoustID and MusicBrainz identification with credits: performers, producers, engineers, works. Preview every difference per track and field, write only what you tick, restore from the backup any time.
You choose the network
Several adapters? Pick the interfaces Verity may use and it uses exactly those for discovery, streaming, the advertised address and callbacks. Virtual switches and VPNs stay off unless you say so. Same choice on the Server.
Rip CDs properly
To FLAC with read-twice verification and MusicBrainz disc lookup. Then it is just another album in the wall.
A remote on every phone
Web remote on the LAN with a PIN, installable as a web app. Now playing, queue, browse, search, play here.
Updates you can verify
An ed25519-signed manifest, SHA-256 of the installer, install on request. A build that does not verify is refused and says why.
Keyboard first
Space, N and P, arrows to seek and for volume, M mute, S shuffle, R repeat, F favourite, I for the signal path, / or Ctrl+K to search everything, Ctrl+M to talk to Vera, L Q D V for the views. Media keys work everywhere.
Nothing is sent anywhere without an explicit switch.
Metadata lookups are opt-in and itemised: AcoustID on stored fingerprints, MusicBrainz releases and credits, Wikipedia bios, LRCLIB lyrics, Cover Art Archive. Each behind its own switch, each named. The licence check sends a key, a device fingerprint and a version. Never a track, a play, a source, a network layout.
- Local first. SQLite on your disk, artwork beside it, backups you can restore from the Technical tab.
- Works offline. A signed 14-day token renews when the internet is there; when it is not, the music keeps playing.
- AI playlists with your own key or a local OpenAI-compatible server. Voice control runs offline on Windows speech.
The defaults on a fresh install. Every switch is named in Settings and says what it sends.
One core. A server, a bridge, a box, a relay, the apps.
The same Rust core runs in the desktop player today. It will run headless as the Verity Server, and as the Verity Bridge on any other PC, laptop, Raspberry Pi or NAS, turning whatever DAC is attached to that machine into a zone of your system. The same Bridge ships built into our box, a fanless streamer with USB, I2S, coax and optical out, for rooms without a computer. The Relay carries an outbound connection from home so you can listen on the go without opening a port. The iPhone, iPad and Android apps connect to a Verity Server or to the Player on your computer. TIDAL and Qobuz are coming too.
See the whole system
The community decides what comes next.
Verity grows by what the people who use it ask for. Requests and votes from licence holders order the Coming list, hardware reports make device support exact, and integrations arrive because someone asked for them and someone tested them.
Ask and vote
Every licence holder has a say. The Coming list is ordered by what you ask for and how many agree, and Founders get first say.
Test on your gear
The signal path shows exactly what your DAC, streamer or speaker negotiated, so a report from your room is precise. Devices the community confirms get listed as confirmed.
Grow the integrations
Services, servers, hardware and metadata sources are added by demand. The more of you there are, the more Verity connects to.
If you need a player, this is the one.
It plays everything you own to everything you have, tells you the truth about every bit, keeps your library at home, and costs one payment you never have to repeat.
The Founder licence: every feature today and every coming feature (the Server, the Bridge, the apps, TIDAL and Qobuz), every future release forever, the Relay included, 5 activations, 10 connected apps. No Update Pass, ever. Only for the first 5,000 buyers.
Claim a Founder licenceEvery feature. Bug fixes for your major version, forever. 3 activations, 10 connected apps; the apps never need a licence.
Buy VerityNew-feature releases while the pass is active. Stop any time and keep what you have.
How it worksEverything, every release, relay included when it arrives. 5 activations.
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