Colibri 4+
Native Lossless Audio
Gabor Hargitai
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- $39.99
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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
Has the features where they count
With very few bugs or niggles, this minimalist-looking player hides in its preferences a wealth of features for getting good quality playback from a lot of different audio formats. The UI is simple, pared back, and basically everything that Apple's (absolutely risible!) Music app is not. Instead of hundreds of intrusive bugs, glacial performance and huge resource consumption, there's a lean, simple interface that responds instantly and gets out of the way so you can enjoy the music without wanting to throw the computer out of the window.
While Apple struggle to even play back basic audio without pauses, skipped tracks, noise spikes or other faults, Colibri achieves the same thing that most other music players have been doing just fine for 25-odd-years; it plays music reliably.
It'd be lovely if this supported streaming content, especially from the Apple Music servers, but as a developer myself I know just how awful and unreliable the Apple Music unfortunately API is. It's almost certainly not worth the developer's effort to waste time on trying to get anything remotely reliable working from that.
With Colibiri, I'm encouraged to once again start maintaining and growing my local content library and abandoning my recent increasing reliance on expensive, but ever-more-buggy streaming services. No more DRM, no more bugs, no more resource hogging - just good music.
Perfect
Perfectly focused on playing music. Superb audio quality. Elegant UI. No glitches. No bloat.
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.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Gabor Hargitai
- Size
- 20.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Gábor Hargitai
- Price
- $39.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.