ROBERT  You're better off with Xiph and Perian for QT, and VLC.   
(Version 1.2)

JCRAIG  Works great in Rosetta. Whamb is seriously overdue for an update, but it's still the best player on OSX for playing .ogg streams.  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  very good application, but take care...

Whamb creates problems with hard drive file structure so I need to make a "fsck" (or repair disk) each time I use it

(OSX Tiger)  
(Version 1.2)

IKARUS  Whamb is a nice and small audio player. With less bloat and taste for system resources I like it more than iTunes. Still Whamb suffers from a lack of some important features. These include:

- equalizer presets

- more flexible playlist management

- professionally designed skins  
(Version 1.2)

ARTHUR  For those having problems with deleting playlist entries, disabling the warning dialogue in the preferences fixes it.

Also I had some problems installing skins. Try this:

1) Download it is and remove the .tgz from the filename so that is reads .wskin

2) Then instead of dragging it into the app which doesn't work anyway, from Whamb select File->Open and choose the *.wskin file. It should install automatically (without and notification) and appear in the Skins menu.  
(Version 1.2)

TIGERABBIT  Sound quality is noticeably better for most sources than any other player I've tried. For this reason alone, I will stick with Whamb. It needs refinement, however: Problems I've had include inability to edit playlists (can't delete entries). Application hangs or crashes if directed to non-active stream address. Cannot handle .mpu - type files- I must use another player app to extract the http: address of such sources first. Whamb usually crashes or freezes if I drop an .mpu or .pls file on it. Handles streaming .ogg very well- stable and fantastic sound for the bitrates and quality levels involved. However, it does not rip .ogg streams properly- the files resulting from such rips are unplayable. Version 1.2 is freeware, but still has a place to put in registration. I registered via the iSleep/Whamb package, but haven't received a reg. # for Whamb yet. Further, it is not selectable in iSleep. I am a long-time user/supporter of the now retired Audion player. Other than Whamb's sonic improvements, it has a long way to go before catching up to the Audion legacy.  
(Version 1.2)

JOHN DOE  Whamb is actually the best way to listen to OGG files with Tiger since OGG vobis support in iTunes is broken under Tiger. See also the new cog 03.  
(Version 1.2)

FRANCISCO  Wow, this could be exactly what I was looking for. I can keep my music folders intact without "importing" (and subsequent unwanted reshuffling of my files) and make playlists very quickly.

Regarding the skins, most are a bit skimpy, unless you are a minimalist or like the interface always on top, though they have an interesting rounded feel. More skins are available via the author's homepage.

This runs nicely on an ibook 700mhz seems much peppier than iTunes.

Unfortunately I could not get any internet streams to play. Some just refused to start others cause the unexpected crash. Stability score is affected by this alone as it seems to work well aside from this feature.

Keep up the good work!

Francisco   
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Whamb is a good app, but for anyones who doesn't know it, itunes supports OGG files!

http://www.illadvised.com/~jordy/  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  I was loking for some lower cpu usage player that WORKS without "this is beta.." excuses. work fine skins are cool too, iTunes is overall the best app. but when I need to listen music while PS and Flash are open saves me cpu.  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  I just started using Whanb. It is the only thing that also me to listen to streaming Ogg Vorbis that a local radio station just implemented. When it works it sounds great. When it doesn't it is very quiet. I haven't yet figured out what the problem is. When iTunes is open it always quits. When a web browser is opened it usually quits. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it just plays for a while and gets tired and quits. I am using panther (OS 10.3.5). maybe that is the problem.  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  I'm looking for a good audio player for OSX. iTunes is just too clunky for me.

This sounds promising, but it's no good to me until it supports AAC. Ogg is good, but AAC is the official MPEG4 codec (and Apple's choice), so support for it is needed..  
(Version 1.2)

CHEKOV  Whamb 1.2 is a fast and handy mp3 player. It beats iTunes in many areas: faster and skinnable GUI, better CPU and disk usage (no constant and annoying iTunes like disk reading), native Ogg support.

One important feature is still missing from Whamb: I wish it could be able to use iTunes playlists. The default skins aren't pretty either, except the iPod skin.

Altogether it's a fine application with some room for improvements.  
(Version 1.2)

RALPH  Excellent application which I have been looking for since months. Has the big advantage to offer a playlist synchronized with the Music folder where I keep all my music tunes archived as I want. Sure, Audion does it too but has to many features I don't use as I work with Amadeus.

Would be perfect if one could edit the ID3 tag batchwise  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Still lack of the AAC format. It should be able to play them :-/  
(Version 1.2)

MARIO GT  This app kick ass... fast, low CPU usage (9-10%), network ready, and its free, awesome...itunes sucks (eats 30-40% of my cpu horse power).. thanks whamb  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  great app! though i can only handle the ipod skin.

gonna need aac/mp4 support soon..... ;o)  
(Version 1.2)

NCIANCA  Update to my earlier review. Author has updated the 1.2 release and the new build (same version number) is certainly the most stable version I have used to date. It hasn't crashed once in the past 12 hours.

One nice feature that I noticed is when you put the computer to sleep and wake it up the song will continue playing from where it was at sleep time.

Due to the instability of the previous versions, I realize that I was wrong in stating that there are no playlists. The filelist is the playlist and you can have multiple lists. The loading of files into the playlists is somewhat slow, and all the songs appear in their respective folders. When adding lot's of songs the progress indicator will continue even though it has finished loading the songs. It would be better if there was an option to flatten the list of songs.  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  "# Started optimization for the PowerPC 970" What?   
(Version 1.2)

NCIANCA  Looks like it has potential but 1.2 crashes on startup and 1.1 crashed after playing 1 or 2 songs and after adding songs. Needs better skins. There are no EQ presets. The EQ and file list aren't part of the skin. There is no "VU" meter. There is no playlists, but rather a listing of files. It's listed as being free, but is actually shareware. Aside from having skins (which iTunes had when it was known as SoundJam), Whamb in it's current form adds very little value over what iTunes and any number of iTunes "addons" provide.  
(Version 1.2)

ANONYMOUS  The one thing I think is sad with this app is that the skins for it are horrible (IMHO).

Hopefully there will be more (better ones) in the future.  
(Version 1.2)

DOLEMITE  Looks like an good program but it crashes everytime I try to start it.  
(Version 1.2)

J03  Ridiculously easy to stream mp3's and ogg's via rendevous throughout a lan. This truly kicks itunes ass.  
(Version 1.1)

HELLZ.  This is da bomb. Better and faster then iTunes.  
(Version 1.0)