Cog (kode54‪)‬ 4+

Very NIce Player

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, important

There 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?

Wow, really great!

I'm an old Winamp guy and recently got into macOS so I'm making the switch. I'm loving COG! Its a really great that has all the earmarks of a mature, full featured application. I think its free?!? I'd easily pay for this!!!

-Ken

Want to Like It But It Needs Certain Things

This is a very nice player and had it a few very important features I would throw Apple's Music application down the sewage drain where it rightfully belongs. Unless you have for some time tried some alternatives, you might not know just how lackluster Music actually is, and done on purpose.

I certainly hoped that COG allowed for the creation of Smart File Lists, as my entire filing system is built around that. I have a very very large library, consisting of Public Domain files and audiobooks from Librovox. Apparently Apple doesn't like that since they can't extract money from you that way.

Another issue is trying to Blutooth the signal to that pathetic Homepod mini. Bad enough you can only ask Siri to play tracks from a specific playlist that exists in your Apple monthly subscription. Something that at the time I purchased it, Apple didn't make clear - and yes they did catch heat for it,but as far as I know they never made and effort to make good on it. Perhaps its because they just don't care? They also didn't point out the alternative was to purchase an increased amount of iCloud storage which is monthly extortionism. I have thousands of files piling into the thousands of GBs. So, the amount of cloud space for that on a monthly subscription is out of the question.

So there's that.

I was really hoping that with COG, that at the very least, I would be able to bluetooth the siignal. Typically I have the signal running off the iMac in one room, and the signal also in another room where the Homepod is. I've not had any luck funneling that signal to the HomePod –– anywhere. But in all honesty, The Homepod is so fussy, It barely works, or stays working for long using its own native equipments. I live in a three room crate, so it isn't as if the distance has far to go. Just out the door from the room I'm sitting in right now and to the table ten feet further. That be all.

I love the equalizer, its a modern affair with a ton of frequencies to use when cleaning up ancient 78's that are 100 years old. It's by far vastly superior to the simple toss at ya thingy Apple provides with Music. Like, could they have spared a little bit? Really?

Again there are many great features to COG, but Smart Playlists and tethering it to Apples mistake for a whatever you wanna call that $100 black ball in the other room just was a deal breaker. But it is nice to know that if you spend some time looking about, you can find a good if not better replacement for Apple's prettty but otherwise useless basic applications . I really wanted to give this a five star, but for those two issues. I know I know, I'm no fool, I understand that Apple has taken the route of forcing its customers into not just one, but many monthly subscription "services". Nice, yeas, but that should be our own choise. It shouldn't be shoved down our pie holes by creating artificial barriers, etc., like moving audibooks from iTunes/Music to Apple Books then make Books unmovable from the harddrive. Audio are large files, and Apple knows this and that is why they did it. But there no different than any other sound file. They just used the move as one more means of forcing us into paying ungodly amounts of monthly fees for the rest of our lives. Like they don't make enough as it is. I remember the 90s. . . I was there. Too bad mr. Jobs isn't here now.

Developer Response ,

I had planned on implementing AirPlay 2 support eventually, and I guess now I'll try to get to it sooner rather than later.

I also was supposed to have Smart Lists support, but I guess I need to fix that support. It may also require you to add your music folders to the sandbox paths separately, as I don't currently know of a way to enumerate the music file paths I need to add without the Sandbox already being granted access to the folders. Sorry I can't be more help with that one, but I can see what's broken and try to fix it.