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Cog grinds its way to .06

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jul 13th, 2007


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.

Tags: audio, cog, formats, gapless, global hotkeys, GlobalHotkeys, growl, itunes, last.fm, monkeysaudio, player, version

Filed under: Audio, Software, Open Source

Cog: open source audio player

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Sep 6th, 2006



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]

Tags: cog, ogg vorbis, OggVorbis

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