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Digital Sound System (DSS) Creator Sergey Sapelin Released 1996-06-?? Platform DOS Website lrsp.narod.ru

Digital Sound System (DSS) is a freeware all-in-one player, converter and audio recorder for DOS created by Sergey Sapelin in June, 1996.

It can play and convert any supported input format to any supported output format (see Supported Formats). Also it supports various audio devices which can be used for playback and recording audio. DSS also can read M3U playlist files.

The newer version uses wavetable synthesis to play MIDI music though it requires Gravis UltraSound GF1 patch files or SF2 SoundFont which are not included.

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Supported Formats

Container Format Can convert to CD Red Book CD Audio No MIDI Type 0 No Type 1 No Type 2 No MPEG-1 MP1 (Layer 1) No MP2 (Layer 2) No MP3 (Layer 3) Yes VOC PCM No WAV PCM Yes CCITT A-law Yes CCITT mu-law Yes DVI/IMA ADPCM Yes Microsoft ADPCM Yes

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Software version number 3.0 (3.-1) wasn't changed since April 2000, but there are two most known versions of DSS (release dates were obtained from the exit screen):

Version Download Platform Notes 2006-08-24 Download - (info) DOS Unofficial newer release. 2003-09-08 Download - (info) DOS Without MP3 encoder and MIDI synthesizer.