Cog Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Cog for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or Quod Libet. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cog and 17 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Cog are Plexamp, Museeks, Swinsian and Roon.

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  1. foobar2000 icon
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    Audio player offering MP3, FLAC support, gapless playback, customizable interfaces, CD ripping, advanced tagging, ReplayGain, plugins, and is known for its freeware model, running on various Windows versions with high audio fidelity.

    204 foobar2000 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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    Developer of Cog also develops components/plug-ins for foobar2000.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • foobar2000 is Free Personal and ProprietaryCog is Free and Open Source
    • foobar2000 is Customizable, Lightweight, Privacy focused and MinimalisticCog is not according to our users
  2. Quod Libet icon
     169 likes

    A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
     
  3. Vox Music Player icon
     111 likes

    It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.

    149 Vox Music Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
  4. Plexamp icon
     12 likes

    Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.

    176 Plexamp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Museeks icon
     20 likes

    Minimalist cross-platform player offering clean UI, support for multiple formats, playback speed adjustment, cover art, playlists, queue management, shuffle, loop, dark theme, library auto-refresh, sleep mode blocker, and m3u import/export.

    130 Museeks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Swinsian icon
     27 likes

    Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries.

    147 Swinsian alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Roon icon
     9 likes

    Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.

    227 Roon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Synology C2
     
  8. re:AMP icon
     2 likes

    re:AMP is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for macOS X, fully written in Swift. Re:Amp supports a lot of audio formats, custom interfaces called skins from classic Winamp.

    18 re:AMP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Eina icon
     12 likes

    Your music belongs to you

    Current music players are focused on managing your music collection, while using mandatory criteria about how they organize it.

    Eina does not care about it at all. If your are an organized person, chances are your music collection is organized too, and.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. CuePlay icon
     3 likes

    CuePlay is an audio player for Linux and Mac OS X. It has been created to be able to play MP3 and FLAC files with cuesheets, because foobar2000 isn't present at the Linux platform. This enables one to create one long MP3/FLAC file and index it with a .cue file.

    94 CuePlay alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Fidelia icon
     6 likes

    Fidelia is a high-definition audio player for sophisticated music lovers. With support for all contemporary audio file formats and an elegant interface that focuses exclusively on music, it gives users the power and the freedom to organize, customize and savor their digital...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  12. SimpleSong icon
     9 likes

    Über simple music player that lets you do a spotlight search and then plays the search result as a playlist. You can also doubleclick or drag tracks to the dock to open them as a playlist, to get your song playing within a second.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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