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Is it possible to play DSD native audio files (no DoP) or pre-processing to flac or other? If so, can anyone provide details about how to do it? My computer is USB connected to an external DAC capable of playing DSD native files.

Thanks

Looks like VLC 3.0.17.4 can't play DSD (DSF and DFF) files as of today but FFplay and MPV can.

You should create a new feature request ticket on the VLC Trac with your above report and the link to this thread:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues

Looks like VLC 3.0.17.4 can't play DSD (DSF and DFF) files as of today but FFplay and MPV can.

You should create a new feature request ticket on the VLC Trac with your above report and the link to this thread:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues

Thank you for your response... I tried to look into using FFplay and/or MPV but both systems appear even more complicated than Foobar that after fiddling quite a bit with it, did not work at all. It is actually quite disappointing that there is no simple solution to play such an old audio format.

I´ll be happy to send a request ticket with hopes that some day people can have easier access to play such files, I bet the easier it is to play them the more folks would be inclined to use this high resolution format.

Thanks again.

Basically, FFplay and MPV are programs using the command line prompt interface:

But you can run MPV.exe and a minimalist interface window will popup where you can drag and drop your DSD file.
Also, as you found out, you can use foobar2000 but also XMPlay or AIMP with the BASS DSD plugin.

high resolution format.

Not really a high resolution format, it's just using a higher sampling rate than usual audio files but with only 1 bit. The result is much bigger files but without any noticeable quality improvement.
I bet you can't hear the difference with a regular audio file in a blind test