Cog Audio Player (for SHN, FLAC and others)
The DMB summer tour starts tomorrow and so does 60GB of FLAC and SHN concert downloads over the summer. On Windows, there are WinAmp plugins for playing SHN and FLAC files, but on the Mac we've been stuck with the now-defunct MacAmp Lite. I've always had problems getting it to play one format or the other and now with an Intel Mac, it being a PowerPC-only binary makes it undesirable to use.
On a quest to solve this little problem, I stumbled across Cog, an open source player for Mac OS X which will play strange formats like Ogg Vorbis and Monkey Audio as well as the usual MP3/AAC/WAV/AIFF and of course, SHN and FLAC.
Best of all, Cog is available as a Universal Binary, meaning that it will run natively on Intel Macs. While playing FLAC and SHN, I've found that Cog uses up less than 10% CPU.
Cog is in constant development, as apparent from their news and recent updates sections, so expect lots of great improvement as time goes on.
Technorati Tags: Cog, audio player, DMB, music, FLAC, SHN, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey Audio, Universal Binary
Eli wrote:
Hahaha, i google flac shn mac os x, find your site (all because i neeeeded to listen to the flac of bonnaroo superjam) and i find that you are promoting this app 'cause of dave tour. awesome. i was at toronto and darien (darien being the bust-out-ier night of the tour, but toronto was my first dreaming tree so :D)
anyways, love getting recommendations from other good music fans
peace
eli
Posted on 25-Jun-06 at 1:20 pm | Permalink