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?

Can’t handle a large music Library

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.

Great for live music collecting

I collect concert recordings in lossless audio, which isn't handled by most mainstream music apps. Cog has always been my go-to for opening a folder of music files and playing without the hassle of converting formats.