Colibri 4+

Native Lossless Audio

Gabor Hargitai

    • 4.2 • 26 Ratings
    • £19.99

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Description

High-Resolution Audio, AirPlay 2 multi-room stream, RAM Disk, BS2B, Automatic Sample Rate Switching and Custom Themes. Support for DSD, FLAC, WavPack, MOD, MIDI and more.

Native Lossless Audio for macOS with BS2B support

Colibri is a native macOS audio player built from scratch on top of the BASS playback technology, supports cristal-clear bit-perfect playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a clean and intuitive user experience.

Now with native AirPlay 2 multi-room audio support. Stream your music to your Apple TV, HomePod or AirPlay-capable smart TV and devices.

Saves your battery
Colibri uses a barely noticable amount of computing power during the playback of your music.

Plays your audio
- FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, TTA, DSD (DSDIFF and DSF encoding), WavPack
- Ogg Vorbis, MP1/MP2/MP3 and AAC/M4A
- network streams/online radio
- Chiptune and Tracker music
- MOD and MIDI files (with per song SoundFont support)

Feature packed
- 10-band Equalizer
- Automatic Sample Rate Switching
- RAM Disk support
- Permanent Pause
- Default audio output
- Remember last used device
- Multiple loop options
- Per-device configuration with auto-switching
- Forced frequency
- Initial volume setting
- Restore frequency on quit
- Frequency switching silence generation

Handles CUE Sheets
Reads, processes - and to some extent - sanitizes cue sheets

Supports gapless playback
Colibri is extensively designed from the ground-up to provide a true gapless listening experience - with or without using a Cue Sheet.

Picks up where you left off
Saves your current playlist upon quitting and re-opens your songs when you start it up again.

Avoids most problems
Colibri does its' best to avoid most problems before, during and after playback.

Understands your language
Colibri is capable of rendering the song information as it was intended to be shown: of all the tried metadata it had no problem with displaying cyrillic or kanji/katakana/hiragana characters mixed with ASCII.

Respects your privacy
Colibri does not phone home, collect usage data or modify files in any way.

Displays album art - Colibri displays embedded cover art for FLAC files and ID3/iTunes artwork metadata for other files (mainly M4A / ALAC and MP3). When that yields not results then it looks in the folder where the current song resides for a cover art image.

Resides in your Menu Bar
Colibri can place an unobtrusively small icon in the Menu Bar for easy access and playlist control

Integrates with Finder
Colibri conforms all of Apple's strict requirements

Adjusts to your Display
Colibri's interface elements scale themselves nicely on every screen resolution and pixel density.

What’s New

Version 2.1.9

Thank you for using Colibri! This is an emergency update that fixes the crashes introduced in the previous version. Really sorry about this!

Fixes:
- Colibri would crash on a Song change
- Colibri would crash when reaching the end of the Playlist

Remarks:
- Built with Xcode 14.3.1

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
26 Ratings

26 Ratings

Marley Hayward ,

Love this app!

Bought this app last year when I first got my Mac and I love it! For someone with a Hi-Fi setup and headphones, being able to easily access all of my CD's that I have saved in FLAC format is great! I love how lightweight and resource efficient the app is and all of the ways it can be customised such as themes, name of the app in the window and sound settings.

The only thing I'd like is for some reason, the first track of every CD I own says "Track 1" by "Unknown Artist" but all other tracks are labled correctly. Maybe a bug with how I rip the CD's?. Either way, thanks for this great app!

Developer Response ,

Hi Marley!

Thanks for the feedback, if you can contact me via ‘gabor@barefootwebdesign.co.nz’ I’d be more than happy to look into the issue!

Cheers,
Gabor

Zuuyü ,

Great player

I have paid for colibri today and after exploring it a bit I have to say that I am very happy with it.
Many hi res players I have tried would not allow bluetooth on the mac. This one does, and this is a huge plus for me.
The music plays flawlessly and the user interface is actually very pretty.
There is still plenty I am discovering and I am not seeing how to get the album art on the screen.
I hope the developers continue the amazing work they have done as for myself, i think this one has the capacity to become one of the best players around.
I am already loving it.
Sound is great and plays a variety of files including dsf, although not iso’s. Maybe this would be asking for too much but who knows, maybe an idea for a later update or something to come at a later stage ;) hehe

Thanks guys, now i just need to check how to get album art
Keep it up, great stuff

StephenBD ,

It works well and looks smart

This is a bargain given that the fee is one-off rather than a subscription.
I use it to play FLAC files of purchased classical music out to an external Marantz device.
Dragging the downloaded folder full of files onto the app interface creates a playlist which is easy to save for future use.
The app works well and looks smart.
The customer service from the author of the app is rapid and helpful too!

App Privacy

The developer, Gabor Hargitai, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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