Audion
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Audion is a light, simple and powerful audio CDs and MP3s player.
Features
- MP3 Player
- CD Player High-quality, smooth MP3 playback Reorder, remix, and affect your CDs
- Net Audio Player
- Alpha-Channel Interfaces Smoothly stream Icecast or Shoutcast The first on the Mac! *.
Discontinued
Audion has been retired. It is now free of charge, is no longer being actively developed/supported, and is provided as-is and without warranty.
Features
- iPhone/iPod sync
- Audio Recording
- Integrated Search
- Mp3 Tag Editor
- Artwork
- Crossfading
- Create Playlist
- Built-in Equalizer
Tags
- mp3-player
- audio-cd
- mp3-recorder
- audio-broadcast
- broadcasting
- Audio CD Burner
- mp3-encoder
- audio-encoder
- batch-encoder
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Panic Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
What is Audion?
Audion is a light, simple and powerful audio CDs and MP3s player.
Features
- MP3 Player
- CD Player High-quality, smooth MP3 playback Reorder, remix, and affect your CDs
- Net Audio Player
- Alpha-Channel Interfaces Smoothly stream Icecast or Shoutcast The first on the Mac!
- Finder-like Playlists
- Stream Guide You already know how they work! Find net streams within Audion
- Dock Integration
- CD Burning Do everything in the dock! Burn audio in one quick click!
- Handy Toolbars
- Portable Device Support Easier access to cool features. Transfer to your RIO or Nomad!
- Instant Search Box
- CD Title Entry Narrow your playlist in a flash. CD not recognized? Add it!
- MP3 Encoding
- Real-time DJ Crossfading Easily create MP3s from your CDs! Mix like the pros, live!
- Visualizations
- Multiple Control Windows Trip out.. legally! Total flexibility for your audio
- Waveform MP3 Editor
- Linked Playlists Cut, copy, and paste in your MP3s! Mirror a folder, automatically!
- Advanced ID3 Tag Editor
- Popularity Rating System Categorize your MP3s completely! Sort by your favorite songs
- Album Cover Art Support
- Per-Song Volume/EQ Settings Store album art with your MP3s Compensate for quiet songs, and more
- Plug-In Architecture
- Powerful Console Window Expand and customize Audion with ease Simple plug-in management in one place
- Face Hue Shifting
- Mixed-Mode Playlists A million color variations of each face! CD tracks and MP3s in perfect harmony
- Speed Control
- Auto Playlist Organization Make every song a Chipmunks song! Create playlist heirarchy in an instant!
- WAV, AIFF, Vorbis, More!
Much More! More file formats = more listening fun Way too much to mention here...
Comments and Reviews
Audion was a audio player that came out about the same time as iTunes -- and actually did more. For instance, you could customize the look and feel of the program with what were known as "skins," and they posted instructions on how to make those skins, and there were a lot of them! I tried many of them, but finally settled for one that looked like an Apple Newton 2100.
If you're on a Mac running Mac OS 10.6.8 Audion will still work! Unfortunately, I upgraded my MacBook Pro up to 10.10.5, and now, I have lost one of my favorite audio players -- at least, on that Mac.
Audion was one of the reasons I was holding off on upgrading that MacBook Pro -- mostly because I was having trouble finding anything that could read an Audion playlist, but fortunately, Swinsian can read my old Audion playlists with ease, so I don't have to reinvent the wheel, as it were.
That said, you can still read the creation story of Audion here:
https://panic.com/extras/audionstory
... and you can still download it here:
https://download.panic.com/audion
Just no skins -- so far. There's a broken link that came up when I was looking for Audion on their site, but clicking it gave me a 404 error. Hopefully that link will be fixed one day -- and yes, I can't find that page again!
On the plus side, if you have Chubby Bunny or one of the Mac OS 9 emulators installed, you should be able to at least use it, so there's that ...