Cog: open source audio player

OGGdropX allows you to put the OGG files into itunes and play them there; but they can't be downloaded to your ipod; and after palying them, any changes you have made to the track data (such as names for the track/artist) get reversed, and the track times get chnaged to 3 seconds. It still plays the music, though.

The thing with those OggVorbis and FLAC components for iTunes is that 1) FLAC still doesn't work, and 2) they don't support ID Tag info.

Guys, the big deal for me about Cog is that it can play GAPLESS PLAYLISTS. Yes. If somebody's sent you their indexed DJ mix, for instance, or if you forgot to turn on the "full CD rip" option or whatever when you were ripping "Dark Side of the Moon" it DOESN'T MATTER because Cog will play it with no gaps. To me this is huge. Coupled with the nice and simple interface and the fact that it doesn't squirt out little subfolders all over your Music folder, Cog is the only thing I use to play music these days.

I have tried Cog twice now as a way to quickly play flac or shn files without having to convert them and load them into Itunes.

It has crashed continually, both times I tried it.

As stated above, there's an ogg quicktime component which enables iTunes to play ogg files. I don't really think iTunes audio format compatibility is that bad.

Here's a compoment for flac:
http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/

Cog's nice and all, but I really dig the choice of music in the screenshot. Funeral is one of the best albums I've heard in years.

Does the quicktime component allow ipods to play vorbis too?

I'm glad I'm not the only person who likes the arcdade fire.

You can add Ogg Vorbis support to iTunes by simply installing the official xiph.org QuickTime components: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html

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