Cog0.08

Excellent Music Player. I like its simplicity. It reminds me of what iTunes used to be. Too bad they evolved into what they are today.

I love the application but have one issue. When dragging a list of pre-sorted files onto the playlist (unwanted) Cog auto-sorts these files in alphabetical order :( . Maybe this issue can be fixed by the developer?

Light weight, pure music.

love it a lot, can we have hotkeys for adjusting the volume please?

Cog 0.08 Nightly Build, excellent http://cogx.org/development.php

I'm using Cog since years now and it's my preferred player for mp3 because of its simplicity, with just the essentials, but there is something strange about all those "little nice players" (including Play and Vox): while they play aac (.m4a) apparently correctly, they misunderstand tunes'durations (displaying something like 1:13:24 instead of 04:35). It might be boring if you have to go to a precise location in the song, when checking a converted song, for example. The only app displaying durations correctly (except for iTunes or Quicktime Player, of course) is VLC! P.S.: note than I have only checked on PPC :-)

i can't seem to play radio streams (pls, m3u) anymore on lion.

A nice, light, no nonsense player that works with Last.fm, yet bypasses the bloat (and bugs) of iTunes and Songbird.

Version 0.08 is already out.. Look at the "Development" part of the homepage. Love this app for is simplicity - just listening to your music.. PLUS you can scrobble (last.fm) your tracks with it ;)

Solid, minimal player. I've always loved players that open a file browser to navigate on the left panel. The only thing I noticed is when the player is in its minimal state the shortcut keys don't work. I'll try downloading the nightly to see if that helps. Thanx to the developer.

A nice and great player for those of us who don't believe that their music is iTunes ;-) I find it so feature complete and smoothly working that I do not see any reason to ask for any updates of this piece of software.

sound quality is good

Just another thumbs up for this great product. The nightly build updates are appreciated. And, as with Vox, the quality of the sound coming from this is better than iTunes which my iPhone unfortunately locks me into. It's great having an application which just focuses on my music collection and respects my own folder structure. Very much enjoying the Spotlight integration for finding any music file on my HD & compiling playlists. Thank you developer.

COG uses fixed point high quality MAD (Mpeg Audio Decoder) library to play mp3 files, so the sound quality is much higher than played in iTunes and QT. Go to developer's site and download last 0.8x beta.

Excellent Music Player. I like its simplicity. It reminds me of what iTunes used to be. Too bad they evolved into what they are today.

For me, the primary advantage of Cog is that it allows system-wide hot keys. As far as I can tell, all of the other players can only be changed if I first select the player program itself. I like the freedom to change a track while I'm in Safari and such.

vox, cog and play are the most audiophile solutions for audio on a mac. because i like testing new software i just wanna add 2 cross platform suggestions: http://www.clementine-player.org/ http://banshee.fm/ personally, i'm stuck with vox.

At this point, it seems quite clear that developpement is stopped (nearly 3 years now from the last 'news' on the site...). I use and really like it to check an album without importing it in iTunes. I've just noticed a little lack: it does not read m4a (aac) tags.

Great little no nonsense player for FLAC lossless files amongst others. The best sound quality of all the players I tested.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

Sweet little mp3 player that is much more lightweight and usable than iTunes. Try it.

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.

Forgot to vote :-)

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.

I really want to like this player, but it has some real annoyances. Pro: + Very simple. + Fast to use. + Stays out of your way. + Low CPU utilization. Con: - *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.

Works just fine in 10.3.9 The window is too big for me though. I like tiny apps.

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.

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.

very nice!!! gapless with flac is awesome!!! thanks for the app!

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.

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.

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!

Oooh, at last I can play my flac folders! Many thanks

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 :)

flacs work great, thanks

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!

WWWWOOOOOWWWW!!!! MusePack support!!!! AMAZING JOB!!!!

Awesome! 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.

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!

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!