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Cog

 24 likes

Audio player for macOS. Plays many formats, some mainstream, many obscure.

Cog screenshot 1

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Mac  Requires macOS 10.8. Network streaming now requires macOS 10.9.
4 / 5 Avg rating (2)
24likes
3comments
0news articles

Features

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  1. Growl icon  Growl integration
  2. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  3.  Multiple languages
  4.  Gapless Playback

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
cultlogic
Jan 20, 2017
0

Fork of the original project found here, under the same name.

shkm
Oct 17, 2013
0

While the official build of Cog hasn't received any attention since 2011 — and, in fact, the latest binary on the site is from 2007 — there are still forks in active development. The most active fork appears to be Mamburu's, which was updated less than a day ago at the time of writing.

You'll have to compile it yourself, but it's little hassle and worth it. All I had to do was install ffmpeg through homebrew and open up the project in Xcode.

RAndyVee
Apr 15, 2009
0

Cog is a superb small player for OS X which simply plays music files from your file system. None of the library rubbish that iTunes enforces. A small but important detail is that Cog is controlled by the media keys on the Mac keyboard too!

What is Cog?

Cog is a free open source audio player for OS X.

Features

General

Gapless playback Seeking Automatic updating Feedback form File drawer Preferences Last.fm support Growl support Global hotkeys

Formats

Ogg Vorbis Mp3 Flac Musepack Monkeys Audio Shorten Wavpack AAC Apple Lossless Wave/AIFF Video Game (nsf, gbs, gym, spc, vgm, hes, and more!) Tracker (it, s3m, xm, mod) m3u and pls playlists Cue sheets

Tags

Vorbis comments ID3v1.0, 1.1, 2.3+ Flac tags APEv1 and v2

Official Links

Cog information

  • Developed by

    GB flagChristopher Snowhill
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    35 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Audio & Music

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Cog, and it has gotten 24 likes

Cog was added to AlternativeTo by dstaley on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated Feb 18, 2021.