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Cog: open source audio player



Lots of people bemoan the fact that iTunes doesn't offer support for some of the more obscure audio formats (most notably Ogg Vorbis). Most people who care about Ogg support tend to be fans of Open Source software, and probably aren't thrilled with using iTunes anyway. Luckily for them there is Cog. It is an open source audio player for OS X that supports a boatload of audio formats, though its feature list isn't quite as long as iTunes.

I suppose you get what you pay for, oh wait, iTunes is free as well (though decidedly closed source).

[via HiFi Blog]

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Lots of people bemoan the fact that iTunes doesn't offer support for some of the more obscure audio formats (most notably Ogg Vorbis). Most...
 

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Paul

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.

November 02 2006 at 7:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony Hunt

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.

September 10 2006 at 11:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tracer Hand

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.

September 09 2006 at 12:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AzHousePro

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.

September 06 2006 at 10:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adrian

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/

September 06 2006 at 6:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
djSyndrome

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.

September 06 2006 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon DunB

Does the quicktime component allow ipods to play vorbis too?

September 06 2006 at 2:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lunchbox

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

September 06 2006 at 1:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sdfjkl

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

September 06 2006 at 1:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dred

I want to pay and receive a maximum from that that have bought.

September 06 2006 at 1:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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