BFD3 has since been acquired by inMusic (and later folded into their library management). The core library discussed here refers to the raw .wav + .metadata + .bdrmap structure, not the standalone player.
In independent tests comparing the Bfd3 core library against memcpy() -heavy parsers and Protobuf-lite : Bfd3 core library
(Points deducted for high system resource usage, but awarded for unparalleled audio fidelity.) Note: BFD3 has since been acquired by inMusic