UNCOY  Cog is great. Just stopped working on me though (won't add songs to the playlist).

Tried Vox, Taply and Play.

Vox and Taply had very high CPU usage in background when not running.

Play is a bit ugly to look at but uses .1% CPU in the background and plays the music very well.

So if you have trouble with Cog, give Play a shot.  
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MRGANDO  I remember when iTunes first arrived, the problem with iTunes is that it's trying to do it all. That has never worked, that's also the microsoft approach :P. Take a look at the good old UNIX, one app that performs specific functions well defined, and in a very easy and productive way.

iTunes has grown to become a beast, for large collections it's REALLY bad, it get's really choppy , and RAM usage goes to the roof.

There's nothing close to foobar2k for mac ( I think it's one of the best windows only apps out there ). But Cog, oh dear, Cog is amazing, very fast, can play FLAC flawlessly. This is the ways applications should be designed.

It needs work, but it's an amazing piece of software.

Keep the good work!  
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IRONMAN  Nice little app. Very useful for me because iTunes takes too much power on my old G4. One comment though: when I click on equalizer, nothing happens.  
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DECAVOLT  kknopp: if by "brillant" you mean "massive, clunky, unintuitive and irritating as hell", then you are correct. Cog does not have that sort of interface, and that's why it's nowhere near the p.o.s. that iTunes has become. I don't care about the stupid iTunes Store, I don't care about iPhone syncing, I don't care about sharing playlist over the network... so I don't need any of that extra junk.

Cog does what it does very well without all the extra b.s. many of us don't need or want.  
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DECAVOLT  I've been looking for years, literally, for a small, low resource music player for OSX. Al the rest are either unstable, bulky, over complicated or all of the above. This little app is *perfect*. I can just drag and drop a folder full of 1000 songs and lots of subfolders and Cog plays it easily and quickly. No importing or forcing me to create playlists. If I don't want to do that, it still knows where my Music folder is without me having to tell it. It's CPU and RAM usage is tiny compared to that beast iTunes. Cog even knows to listen to my MacBook Pro's remote, and the music player keys on the new mac keyboards. This rocks.

Bye bye iTunes, I don't need your fat @$$ anymore, and I won't miss you at all.  
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JCRAIG  Indispensable little player, love the fact that no conversion is necessary to play open-source file formats commonly found on torrent sites. Cog and Max are the dynamic duo of open file formats, keep up the great work!  
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HERMIE  MP3 player? No way! I want my music lossless but compressed if possible like for instance FLAC or Monkey's Audio (APE). And this little gem plays them straight from the files without conversions.

Great stuff! Thank you very much and please keep up the good work.  
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ARTWILSON22  Sweet little mp3 player that is much more lightweight and usable than iTunes. Try it.  
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O5220803  An excellent MP3 player! I'm currently listening to the Cog Player which is handling an excellent job with my iTunes play lists, without any problems.   
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EASER  Might we add to the praise the fact that it provides system-wide hot keys? I haven't seen that in any iTunes alternatives. This is a very nice program. I would like to see the addition of an equalizer of the ability to use VST effects. But on the whole, this program gets the job done and doesn't eat up all of my resources when I try to listen to music.  
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