{
 "id": "direct-stream-digital-interchange-file-format",
 "name": "Direct Stream Digital Interchange File Format",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "dff"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "audio/x-dff"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1818"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q117485251"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "46524d38",
    "notes": "Direct Stream Digital Interchange File Format"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Direct Stream Digital Interchange File Format",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "46524d38{8}4453442046564552"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "readable",
 "summary": "Direct Stream Digital is a digital audio format which uses pulse-density modulation at more than 64 times the sampling rate of CD Audio. Two formats associated with the file format are DSD Stream File (DSF) and DSD Interchange File Format (DFF). Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is a trademark used by Sony and Philips.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "mutagen",
   "url": "https://mutagen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q117725",
   "url": "https://picard.musicbrainz.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "EZ CD Audio Converter",
   "url": "https://www.poikosoft.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "via": "dsd"
  },
  {
   "name": "Jaikoz",
   "url": "http://jthink.net/jaikoz/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "via": "dsd"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1818",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1818",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q117485251",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117485251",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/DSD",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "dsd"
}