Cog grinds its way to .06

Shaun Martin drops a note that Cog, an open source audio player that plays pretty much every format you'd want to play (I don't know if I'd ever need to play anything in Monkey's Audio but sure enough, it's there) has hit version .06. The release features a brand new UI (with two pullout drawers-- one that browses the filesystem for music, and another that pops up to show info on the playing file), plugin support, preferences (including builtin global hotkeys, which I really enjoy), and everything else you'd expect in an audio player-- Growl support, Last.fm support, gapless playback, and more.

The only little flaw I can find is that there seems to be two Help menus-- maybe the Cog guys just want to be extra helpful. At any rate, if you're looking for a quick and free little open source audio player as an alternative to Apple's iPhone Activator, Cog will probably turn your gears.

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Mike Schramm

Hey the stuff I'm smoking has nothing to do with this! :)

Seriously, I'm running Cog version .06 (r516) on my Powerbook G4, in OS X 10.4.10, and every time I load it up, I see two help menus. I can take a screenshot if you don't believe me. At first, I thought it was just a glitch, but no, every time I load it up, I get two help menus.

Otherwise the software's awesome. :)

July 14 2007 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shaaun

Yeah, we were thinking the same thing over at the Cog forums unless it's some obscure bug in one of the localizations..

Whatever you're smoking Mike, be sure to share with the rest of the class ;-)

July 13 2007 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

john russell

I viddy a real horrorshow app.

July 13 2007 at 4:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shaaun

Cog can't play protected AAC files, but regular ones work fine.

July 13 2007 at 2:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

Great app, I've been looking for a player like this for a while!

July 13 2007 at 1:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve

Thanks for pointing this app out - I've been looking for a player like this. Just dl'd the new version - only one help menu here - maybe the author forgot his/her glasses?

July 13 2007 at 1:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

Billy K: AAC is on the compatibility list on the Cog Website.

July 13 2007 at 10:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Billy K

"...plays pretty much every format you'd want to play..."

Except AAC. Big exception. I like Cog, though, and use it all the time. I hope v.06 has some stability improvements.

July 13 2007 at 9:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Herv頓.

The comparison with iTunes is a bit misleading AMHA. Cog is a sleek, fast, and simple player, but just this.
OTOH, if you seek for a complete iTunes replacement (not a simple player, but also handling ipods etc.) then Floola is more the thing to check (free, cross-platform osx/win/linux, does all iTunes does apart buying music -incl. tag edition, song rating and playlists, plus copies songs back to mac, doesn't lock your ipod on a given machine...)

July 13 2007 at 9:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply