A truly versatile audio player application. Features gapless playback, global hotkeys, desktop notifications. Shuffle of both albums and tracks. Repeat single track, album or whole playlist. Playback from HTTP(S) sources both livestreams and hosted files. Supports Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) using FFmpeg. Supports live metadata updates of continuous streaming servers, including Shoutcast, Icecast, Ogg Vorbis comments, and timed ID3v2 packets, where employed by the streamer. CUE Sheet support, including embedded CUE Sheets in several formats. Album artwork per track, both embedded and external, cached per unique image, in JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, or AVIF format. HEIC requires macOS Mojave, while WebP requires Big Sur. Graphic equalizer. Spectrum visualization in the toolbar, or a dedicated window. Spatial Audio support for supported sound devices. Multiple MIDI synthesizers, including SpessaSynth for SoundFonts and DLS banks. (An embedded compressed copy of GeneralUser GS is included, otherwise the user may supply their own.)
Supports many audio formats, including obscure game and console formats.
Updates frequently, sometimes daily. Updates usually don't break anything. Unfortunately, I don't code to a pattern that would be conducive to stable updates and only frequent TestFlight builds.
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Amazing app
IntrovertusMaximus
If you're looking for a simple, lightweight, but also feature-rich music app for macOS, this is it. It's like foobar2000 if it actually looked nice lol.The only thing I wish it had was an option to see the full album artwork in a sidebar or something, rather than having it pop up in a separate window. Also, it would be nice to have sidebar controls to change between different playlists and see only the songs in that selected playlist. But hey, it's free and it's amazing. Totally worth it for me.
Can’t handle a large music Library
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This app simply get’s bogged down with a large library (don’t know how well it works with a small one). It took over 5 hours to read all of my files and get all of the metadata. It finally finish when at bedtime so I turned off my external drive and when I fired it back up this morning Cog stated the whole process all over 🤯. I tied to scroll dow to play a music file and I got the spinning wheel of death. I’ve read online how this app is light weight and uses little resources, I’m not experiencing that at all. I have been using Strawberry and before that Clementine and those, while a bit primitive have worked flawlessly; (I would stay with Strawberry but they are no longer supporting Mac for free). I’d rather pay for an app that works well than struggle with one that doesn’t so I’ll have to find a paid app instead. I appreciate your effort, and thanks for the response but I ended up finding an open source app that fit my needs. With it I loaded my entire library in under 2 minutes and works flawlessly.
Developer Response
I have made some minor improvements with file loading recently, maybe try it again? It loads about 4500 files here in under three minutes, which, while not really that great, is also from a network share. Tag loading should also be considerably faster now that I've attempted to shortcut the weird tag encoding issues by trying UTF-8 first.
Very NIce Player
Norton 750
Been using this for a couple of months. Things I lke:Its simple, just list view. The playist style is awesome, I spend most of my time moving stuff around in it. Easy and fun do change on the go. The Equalizer is the best and easiest I have come across. Many codecs, importantThere are some nice options included, there is no bling (always a good thing).I've been using iTunes since the beginning, when it was decent until it's death with the arrival of Apple Music, which I won't speak about. I won't be gong back to that ever.I can live with Cog easily going ahead. I also use Linux, verion for that OS would do well over there. Maybe in your spare time?
Excellent Choice for NAS Music Collection
silentdoc
As someone that keeps their music collection on a Network Attached Storage, so that I can use it with multiple OSs, Cog is totally excellent with this option.I also appreciate the consistent updates to this application!
• Fix AU plugin MIDI event handling and unify SysEx message sending
• Update some dependencies and apply minor tweaks to the opt-in crash reporting
Version 3651
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