Cog (software)

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Cog is a free, open source audio player for Mac OS X. It has a single-paned, playlist interface and supports multiple formats and their metadata that are otherwise unsupported on OS X.

In April 2006, Cog joined fellow Mac OS X open source audio software Max and Tag in an effort to consolidate the presence of OS X open source audio applications on the web. The Cog website was therefore redesigned to match Tag and Max's website, and its forums were moved to the Tag and Max forums. In July 2007, they were moved once again to new forums, shortly before the release of version 0.06.

Contents 1 Features 1.1 General 1.2 Audio formats 1.3 Playlist formats 1.4 Metadata formats 1.5 Known Issues for Leopard 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Features

[edit] General

• Gapless playback
• Last.fm support
• Growl support
• Global hotkeys
• File drawer
• Info drawer
• Smart shuffle
• Automatic updating (choice of Stable, Nightly, or Unstable)

[edit] Audio formats

• AAC
• AIFF
• Apple Lossless
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
• Monkey's Audio
• MP3
• Musepack
• Ogg Vorbis
• Shorten
• WavPack
• WAV
• video game music formats (NSF, GBS, GYM, SPC, VGM, HES, and others)
• tracker formats (IT, S3M, XM, MOD)
• cue sheet

[edit] Playlist formats

• M3U
• PLS

[edit] Metadata formats

• Vorbis comments
• ID3 v1.0, 1.1, 2.3+
• FLAC tags
• APEv1 and APEv2 tags

[edit] Known Issues for Leopard

• Playlist Issues including "Invisible Playlist"
• Freezing at 3/4 play time in song
• Unattended Cross-Fade at random times

[edit] See also

• Comparison of media players

[edit] External links

• Cog home page
• Cog forums
• sbooth.org forums, where the Cog forums used to reside
• Cog's project page on SourceForge