Wavecrest24-bit

Lossless, always

The master, not an approximation of it

Every album streams as 24-bit FLAC — up to 192 kHz where the label supplied it. That is about 9 Mbit/s, and we think it is worth the bytes.

 24-bit / 192 kHz gapless everywhere mastering notes included
11.2M
tracks, all lossless
9.2Mbit/s
peak stream bitrate
1.4GB
typical album, 24/96
0
lossy fallbacks in the catalogue

Playback

Gapless is not a feature

It is the absence of a bug. We decode with a lookahead buffer so a continuous mix plays continuously — on every platform, including the browser.

  • Sample-accurate transitions on all 11.2 million tracks
  • Bit-perfect output on ASIO, WASAPI exclusive and CoreAudio
  • Replay-gain applied only if you switch it on
  • MQA-style folded files are rejected at ingest

Bit-perfect chain

1FLAC 24/192decoded on device, never transcoded server-side
2Exclusive outputOS mixer bypassed where the platform allows it
3DACnative rate, no resampling, no volume scaling

Sample an album

Ash Harbour — Kestrel Quartet, recorded live to two-track in one room.

01Ash Harbour24-bit / 96 kHz · 68 MB
6:14
02Low Bell24-bit / 96 kHz · 51 MB
4:41
03The Narrows24-bit / 96 kHz · 94 MB
8:37
04Weatherglass24-bit / 96 kHz · 62 MB
5:39
05Salt Marsh24-bit / 96 kHz · 79 MB
7:12
06Ash Harbour (reprise)24-bit / 96 kHz · 38 MB
3:26

Questions people actually ask

On a phone speaker, no. Through a decent DAC and headphones, on well-recorded material, most people do — and either way you are getting the file the mastering engineer signed off.