Fidelizer started as a geek software written with personal passion to improve audio performance in Windows. It was really like from geek to geek product that most people would find it hard to use. Although I tried to make it much easier to use since version 6, it still wasn’t easy to use for end user.
So, version 7 will be a brand new start to refresh the focus of Fidelizer, a product designed for audiophiles. There’s a lot of changes in user experience along with audio improvements you’ll never see before as I already promised below.
1. Better user experience – Much easier to use with Optimization Wizard that shows only main features selection with description and UX is professionally done with own materials and design.
2. Improve audio optimizations – Audio optimizations will be revised and improved to suit modern needs better with improved optimizations like Hyper-Threading support for an example.
3. Machine Configuration upgrade – Machine Configuration will be revamped again. Free will have default option, Plus will have 3 options and Pro will have 7 options.
4. Improve Windows 10 services management – Fidelizer will shutdown more Windows 10’s specific services for lower footprints.
5. User experience unified – In past, Pro version handles services in Extremist differently so it’s hard to maintain the usability. Now all 3 versions will follow the same design principles.
There’s some parts in free version I’d like to explain here. Because I received a few reports of the following cases in free version as below:
1. Degraded sound quality in YouTube, Tidal and NAS – They don’t realize that they should select Network Streaming optimization level.
2. Network connection not working after using Fidelizer – I already set keep network services selected by default but some people unchecked it not knowing they’ll lose network connection.
As a result, I decided to revise free version to have default option that works good on both local/network storage and removed stopping network services to avoid future user error cases. I hope you’ll like this major upgrade of Fidelizer.
Changelog for version 7.0
Free
-Added optimization wizard to explain main features better
-Improved core optimizations to work better intensive audio processing application such as DSD upsampling
-Launching media player application after optimizations is now optional since there’s no side effects to new process on higher levels
-Merged Network streaming optimizations into main optimizations as “General Purpose” Audio Profile
-Rebranding logo and user experience design
-Revised Fidelizer Upgrade Program instructions to perform update without using Key-Generation Utility
-Services to keep such as Network and User Experience won’t be stopped anymore in new configuration
Plus
-Added Audio Profile feature with 3 profiles
-Added optimization wizard to explain main features better
-Improved core optimizations to work better intensive audio processing application such as DSD upsampling
-Improved optimizations compatibility with Hyper-Threading technology
-Improved Windows 10/Server 2016 services management
-Launching media player application after optimizations is now optional since there’s no side effects to new process on higher levels
-Moved Network streaming from User Level to Audio Profile instead to work with stopping services better
-Rebranding logo and user experience design
-Revised Fidelizer Upgrade Program instructions to perform update without using Key-Generation Utility
Pro
-Added optimization wizard to explain main features better
-Improved core optimizations to work better intensive audio processing application such as DSD upsampling
-Improved memory optimizations in system configuration for neutral sound with better transparency
-Improved optimizations compatibility with Hyper-Threading technology
-Improved Windows 10/Server 2016 services management
-Launching media player application after optimizations is now optional since there’s no side effects to new process on higher levels
-Moved Network streaming from User Level to Audio Profile instead to work with stopping services better
-Rebranding logo and user experience design
-Revised Fidelizer Upgrade Program instructions to perform update without using Key-Generation Utility
-Reworked Machine Configuration as Audio Profile feature with 7 profiles
There’s a lot of changes in user experience and how internal optimizations work so let me know if you have any issue in version 7.0. I tested with some customers and confirmed before releasing it so I hope everything will go well for you.
Download: Fidelizer 7.0
Upgrade: Fidelizer Upgrade Program
Fidelizer Plus/Pro users who pre-order Fidelizer 7 Upgrade before should have received a mail about update and download link by now. If you somehow didn’t receive an update notification as I received some delivery failure message too, please contact me for an update with your customer data to verify.