 | Nov 9 2009 |
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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 | Nov 11 2009 |
TUTOR Try the latest build available under development: http://cogx.org/development.php The play list bug is documented in the cog forums.
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| Nov 11 2009 |
UNCOY Thanks Tutor. Will do.
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| Mar 10 2009 |
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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| Jul 31 2008 |
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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| Jul 10 2008 |
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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| Mar 5 2008 |
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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| May 25 2008 |
EASER You can also add hotkey support to the list of praises. Cog responds to hotkeys for play, previous track, etc. regardless of what other program is currently frontmost. This developer really knows his stuff.
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| Jul 10 2008 |
EASER What the f@#% is a "shiller?" Of course it doesn't have iTunes interface. But it still has a very functional interface. I also prefer Cog because it automatically updates my playlists when I add, remove, or rename files. iTunes does not do this. Hey, it's simply an alternative. It's free, and it's decently made. Why knock it?
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| Dec 23 2007 |
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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| Dec 23 2007 |
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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| Dec 18 2007 |
ARTWILSON22 Sweet little mp3 player that is much more lightweight and usable than iTunes. Try it.
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| Sep 22 2007 |
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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| Sep 22 2007 |
O5220803 Sorry for the typo, my review should read: "I'm currently listening to the 'Cog Player' which is handling my iTunes play lists, without any problems."
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| Jul 13 2007 |
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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| Apr 5 2007 |
SVOOP Forgot to vote :-)
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| Apr 5 2007 |
SVOOP Gapless playback is a bliss, love it! And you will, too, if you give it a shot. Take it one step further and add crossfade playback to increase the happiness factor even more. I use Cog to play files off my Linux server via MacFUSE/SSHFS and WLAN - no hickups, no gaps at all.
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| Dec 31 2006 |
KEVIN_C I really want to like this player, but it has some real annoyances. - *Still* doesn't play AAC encoded with QuickTime/iTunes. - Could be about half the size it is (even and 1600x1200 it's absolutely HUGE). - Doesn't remember shuffle/loop settings between launches. How about a pref's pane to manage UI size, playlist font/size, buttons vs. text, etc.
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| Nov 29 2006 |
PLUPP Works just fine in 10.3.9 The window is too big for me though. I like tiny apps.
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| Jul 22 2006 |
MICHA WERNER Cog is a very tiny and fast music-file player. For the fact, that's a free player, the user-interface is very simple and intuitively. My recommendation. But nevertheless I'm missing the comment-field in the ID3-tag of a mp3-file.
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| Jul 18 2006 |
HEATHERMASON I agree with DOM21. I can understand not supporting an older OS, but come on! 10.3 is not that old. Almost all the mac users I know are still on Panther. It makes me wonder if these developers aren't getting some kind of payoff from apple.
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| Jul 14 2006 |
gapless with flac is awesome!!! thanks for the app!
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| May 5 2006 |
NINJABOY Great app! Easy to use and plays/exports so many different audio formats... and freeware too! Would be nice if Panther users could use this as many still haven't upgraded to Tiger yet because of all the OS bugs.
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| May 12 2006 |
LEONCAHUN "all the OS bugs" - sure ...
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| May 2 2006 |
YAMS Great, plays my FLACs gaplessly, with low CPU usage. Be nice to see gapless MP3 playback, I know this is harder to do. One problem, when using my external sound card, the sound disappears when seeking through files, but comes back when I play a track from the beginning.
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| May 2 2006 |
DOM21 Didn't this used to work under OSX3.9? Why stop supporting that? Not everybody has moved to Tiger. In fact I suspect most have stuck with Panther.
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| May 2 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN All polls I've seen, including several here on MU, show that about 20 percent of people are still using Panther at this very late date.
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| May 2 2006 |
DOM21 I suspected; you had the facts. I stand corrected.
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| Oct 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Obviously the reviewer below has no clue when it comes to why people develop different audio codecs. Cog is a great player for use with higher quality codecs compared with mp3.
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| Oct 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I think it's going to be a lovely day when PC people stop creating stupid codecs all the time. Producing result most of the time you can't even differenciate with others. Please just use MP3... Cog crashes when attempting to input files.
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| Nov 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Your comments are quite stupid. Please refrain from making them.
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| Nov 11 2005 |
PLASTIQUE45 MP3 is a highly lossy codec. FLAC & APE are lossless codecs. Most codecs are open-sourced, it is Apple who should support these in QuickTime straight out of the box.
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 | Oct 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Great application! There is one quirk with 10.3.9, and that is when the window is shrunk to the smallest, the up/down scroll arrows disappear. It would also be nice if the window could be shrunk to just the control buttons and volume. thanks for the app!
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| Sep 19 2005 |
YAZARIM Oooh, at last I can play my flac folders! Many thanks
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| Jul 17 2005 |
SQUEAKYBADGER Im liking it so far. Just transferred over to mac after 11 years on pc, and there is a distinct lack of decent mp3 players out (i blame itunes) Only thing it needs now is stream support and ill be happy :)
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| Jul 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS flacs work great, thanks
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| Jul 4 2005 |
HAPPY MAC Very impressed with this so far. It's nice to have one player that can handle all these formats iTunes can't. I'm really hoping you can get the gapless worked out in time as that's one thing I could really use. I know it's probably a bit early for feature requests, but I have two small ones: 1) m3u playlist support. Would be nice to be able to open these as they're pretty common and I always use them in Windows. 2) If you ever get round to implementing album art, could you display jpg files that reside in the same folder as the mp3s? For example, in Windows I have the album cover as a folder.jpg file and when I play any mp3 from the folder it's displayed in WMP. Much neater than embedding art in id3 tags. Keep up the good work. Maybe one day I can get rid of that useless iTunes!
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| Jul 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The gapless playback claim is unfounded. It doesn't work with ANY of the supported file types--not even WAV or AIFF. It's rather close, but close isn't "gapless." However, playback support for FLAC, Musepack, etc. make this application worth having.
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VINCENT SPADER I apologize, I had received feedback about the gapless playback not being totally gapless, and I had thought I removed that from the description.
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| Jul 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS seems to crash when I try to play anything. Deleting prefs doesn't help. (iMac G5, 10.3.9)
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| Jul 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS found the problem. It only crashes when I use the output of my Firewire soundcard
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| Jul 2 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER Yeah, theres currently problems with external audio devices. I'm making a test build for a couple others with the same problem, so I can collect some debugging info. If you could email me (vspader (at) users.sf.net), I could send you the link.
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| Jun 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Doesn't play AAC encoded with QuickTime nor couldn't play m4p from itms. Good bye Cog and say hello to the trashcan.
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| Jun 29 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER Cog currently doesn't play mp4 files, and I never said it would. It definately won't play DRM'ed files. Maybe sometime in the future, but I prefer supporting open formats.
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| Jun 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS What an a$$ did you even read the description? Cog is for playing open formats that Apple doesn't care about. If you want to play Quicktime formatted files USE QUICKTIME. This person most definately is a tool.
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| Jun 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS agreed -- mr. arrogant anonymous 'hello trashcan' is acting irresponsibly to downgrade a 0.4 development version appl just because it doesn't do what he wishes it would do.
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| Jun 29 2005 |
FRANK very promising app! still using macamp lite x for my shn/flac needs but definitely a promising and worthy job! in 0.0.4 i cannot drag and drop files to the playlist window, app crashes...adding files via the "+" button works fine thanks a lot!
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| Jun 29 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER I just released 0.0.4b which fixes that. You guys catch bugs really quick!
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| Jul 1 2005 |
FRANK this is one of the fastest series of bugfixes i've ever seen. again my personal thanks for developping cog!
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| Jun 25 2005 |
WOUTER VAN NISPEN For all the praise the Mac gets for it's multimedia abilities, I have been sooo disappointed not being to find ANY program that does gapless playback like Winamp does (REALLY gapless). COG is the closest thing I have been able to find. MANY thanks to the developer! There is only the slightest blip where 2 tracks join. Apple has not been able to do anything that comes close. Thanks again.
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| Jul 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS With my LAME mp3's there is a slight gap between tracks. To Mr. Developer: AFAIK it should be possible (as with foobar2000 on windows) to eliminate this gap as LAME (post v3.90.3 I think) writes information to the LAME tag about how to play the file gaplessly (i.e. how many samples to chop off the end) - you probably know more about this than me though
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS OS X 10.3.8, Cog .0.0.1, .0.0.2, and .0.0.3 just bounces once in the Dock and then disapears. I can't see anything :-(
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| Jun 20 2005 |
DAVIS1 Exactly my problem. Even rebooting didn't fix it.
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| Jun 21 2005 |
JOHN DOE G5 Bi 2.5, OS X 10.4.1, Cogg 0.0.2 and 0.03 NO PROBLEMS. Use disk util and repair permissions , ^perhaps it will help, since Cogg is really superbe, (the only way to listen to MPC files for example).
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| Jun 21 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER Try updating to 10.3.9.
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| Jun 22 2005 |
DAVIS1 YES! Updating to 3.9 did the trick. COG is GREAT! Plays EVERYTHING audio. Thank you for this superb player!
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| Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS WWWWOOOOOWWWW!!!! MusePack support!!!! AMAZING JOB!!!!
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| Jun 20 2005 |
DAVIS1 Won't launch! Not with drag-n-dropping a supported audio file to alias or original app, nor double-clicking either. I need Cog, hope someone can help. G5 Panther ver 10.3.8.
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 | Jun 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Yes, someone can help: Of course.
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| Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS as mentionned by the developper, UPGRADE TO 10.3.9!!!
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| Jun 22 2005 |
DAVIS1 Upgrading to 10.3.9 did the trick. An amazing player, it plays *everything*! Thank you!!
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| Jun 13 2005 |
I can't thank you enough. I've been looking for this software to play all my FLAC files since the first day I got my mac and now you made it... Easy to use plus it is stable (unlike VLC) Great job..can't wait for the next improvment.
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| Jun 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS by clicking the time field - display remaining time instead elapsed time and vice versa would be useful, having a fade in seconds option between songs, also when skipping to the next song via mouse > would be nice. why not use space for play and pause button and normal (without command) cursor for next and previous track as everyone does? is editing id tags not working or buggy on my system? and finally - two or more simultainiously playing windows would be great, dragging between windows would be great and giving different windows access to different sound devices would be supergreat. then a volume slider could be useful. very good work for version 0.0.2
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| Jun 9 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER Space should do pause/resume already. As for the left-right, I think it would be odd as up-down moves the selection. Fading between songs and mouse gestures are a low priority, as the core needs a lot of work first. Editing tags is not implemented as of yet. Choosing an output device is planned, but not yet implemented.Why would you want to have two things playing at the same time?
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| Jun 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS 0.0.2 won't simply run on my computer. It does not even open up when clicked on. I'm running 10.3.7
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| Jun 9 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER Please email me or file a bug report, and I'll try to help.
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| Jun 13 2005 |
ARMOGI had the same problem and I upgraded to 10.3.9 and then it worked fine.
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| Jun 6 2005 |
SIM At last, I can read my flac collection again. Thank you! iTunes is almost version 5 and still can't read ogg or flac files!
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| Jun 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS FINALY the first feasible FLAC player for OS X (unless you count Traktor - a different category really) it's been a long wait. Gapless playback too, though not for LAME mp3's. CPU usage is about the same as iTunes, forgivable at 0.0.1
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| Jun 5 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER Gapless playback does not work with mp3s encoded with lame? What kind of settings were used to encode them?
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| Jun 5 2005 |
THEBRIX Very impressive for 0.0.1 - it is a relief to escape from the bloat and interface peculiarities of iTunes. Hurrah for the front end being a simple list of tracks, and for being able to use OGG and FLAC files straight off!
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| Jun 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I wonder why it doesn't use Quicktime to play formats it doesn't know about?
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| Jun 4 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER I was going to do that with some formats such as MP3, and discovered that Quicktime would actually crash on certain ones. So I've decided to go through other means to decode formats. Also, I like the idea of Cog using open source libraries rather than proprietary ones. What formats in particular are you interested in playing? If there is a format that only quicktime can handle, that doesn't have an open source decoder, I'll look into it.
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| Jun 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Well, I like using iTunes to play the audio tracks of music videos. Now that iTunes actually plays the videos, I'm having to go through and convert them to AAC to play them without having it decode and play the video in the preview window. That seems to be quite a bit more CPU-intensive... so having something that would just play the music from QT files would be good.
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| Jun 3 2005 |
THE VALRUS That is the lowest version number I've ever seen.
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| Jun 3 2005 |
VINCENT SPADER I decided to start low. This is my first release, after all, and I haven't been able to test it on a wide variety of machines.
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| Jun 3 2005 |
BILL BRASKY my favorite thing about this player, is that it has really intuitive shuffle support. I don't know what they did, but it seems truly random! Nice simple interface, without bulky useless skins. good stuff. Hasn't crashed on me yet and I've been using it for a couple months now.
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| Jun 3 2005 |
CURIOUS? How have you been using it for a couple of months if it's just released at 0.0.1 version? Been using a 0.0.0.1?
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| Jun 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Cog 0.0.1 has been around for a while, I just didn't release it officially without creating a website and getting hosting for it. He is a coworker and friend who I had given it to. I am the first to admit that he rated it a little high, but he has told me on several occasions that he prefers the shuffle mode over winamps.
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