Software · Audio & music

Vespertine

Free, open-source, surround bit-perfect music player for Mac. Switches your DAC to every track's native format, plays DSD, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD and DTS, renders surround as Spatial Audio on AirPods, and catches fake…

Completely free
macOS
Open source
No account

Overview

Vespertine is a music player, available on macOS.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Free, open-source Mac music player for surround and hi-res collections: SACD and DVD-Video disc images, DSD, DTS CDs, DTS-HD MA, TrueHD and Dolby Atmos files, Spatial Audio on AirPods, room correction measured in…” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Vespertine is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub szeremeta1/Vespertine (GPL-3.0-only)

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