My PureMusic Nightmare is Over!

Wow... wow... well executed, transparent app! I have finally woken up from my PureMusic user experience nightmare.

I am using my MacBook Pro with an AQ DragonFly (mobile) or a NuForce Icon HDP+u192s (home) and its great to be able to use the track skip (RW/FF), play/pause and volume controls again on the keyboard.

Oh, yeah, and I can scrub the track progress back-and-forth and easily re-listen to my favorite riffs; you know, the way iTunes used to work before I started using Pure Music.

You know what else I love? Playing back gapless tracks without waiting for the whole album to load into memory. And, no more wading through menus and restarting the app to change DACs between my portable and desktop rigs.

Bitperfect seems to use only a fraction of the RAM previously used by PureMusic, looking at the ActivityMonitor; I love this feature, because Photoshop and Illustrator are busy using the rest of the 8GB I have on my system.

It was always great to see designers I work with laugh when I show them the PureMusic UI, but I am happy to no longer be looking at it myself - someone was on acid when they designed those visuals.

Ken Krutsch about BitPerfect