Topic: 24 bit FLAC Player Recommendations (Mac)

[Nick Graham]

Any programs similar to Foobar for Mac? I'd love an all in one (FLAC, AIFF, WAV, MP3, etc.), but as long as it will play 24 bit FLACs I'm good...the rest I can just use iTunes.

Thanks in advance...

[Patrick]

Cog

[bgalizio]

Cog

Cog doesn't work with 24bit FLAC files. I believe VLC does.

[MattD]

VLC crashes to hell on my iBook and still doesn't play nice with core audio devices. As of now, I still do not know of one.

Has anyone in Mac world tried Foobar2k on an Intel machine?

[bgalizio]

VLC crashes to hell on my iBook and still doesn't play nice with core audio devices. As of now, I still do not know of one.

Has anyone in Mac world tried Foobar2k on an Intel machine?

Do you mean in a virtualized Windows environment, like Parallels? FWIW, it works fine when I boot into Windows from my Intel iMac, but then again it should.

[MattD]

No, I meant in dual boot mode. I wasn't sure how hardware support and stuff worked. If it worked in a virtual window, that would be awesome.

[ellaguru]

^^bump for playing back 24bit flacs on my ibook...vlc doesnt want to play flacs (16 or 24 bit) at all here 

[KLowe]

winamp plays my 24 bit flac files just fine.

You have to DL a couple of plug-ins though.

[JackoRoses]

I see there is an xmms port for OS X, have you tried that yet?
I don't use a mac so I'm not familiar with the options.. I also have not used xmms to play back 24 bit files but it's similar to winamp so I think it should work?

[ellaguru]

winamp plays my 24 bit flac files just fine.

You have to DL a couple of plug-ins though.

even on osx?  that seems to be the prob here....

[jbraveman]

Play does it: http://sbooth.org/Play/

It doesn't play SHN's, however.

[growltiger]

This is currently a known bug in VLC for OS X

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1260#preview

I second the recommendation to use Play - that's what I use - not the best interface, but sounds fine

[Nick Graham]

After using VLC for a year or so I downloaded Play over the weekend - love it. Much better interface, easier file management, etc.

I'll still use VLC for the occasional video codec that Quicktime won't play, but using VLC for audio always felt like I was tinkering with a Linux box. It's not exactly "user friendly".

[habit]

Any programs similar to Foobar for Mac? I'd love an all in one (FLAC, AIFF, WAV, MP3, etc.), but as long as it will play 24 bit FLACs I'm good...the rest I can just use iTunes.

Thanks in advance...

Is there a program that will make the iPod 24b WAV compatible? Have 60g iPod that would ge a lot more use if I could play 24b on.

Thanks,

jeff

[edtyre]

Any programs similar to Foobar for Mac? I'd love an all in one (FLAC, AIFF, WAV, MP3, etc.), but as long as it will play 24 bit FLACs I'm good...the rest I can just use iTunes.

Thanks in advance...

Is there a program that will make the iPod 24b WAV compatible? Have 60g iPod that would ge a lot more use if I could play 24b on.

Thanks,

jeff

Itunes will play 24 bit Apple Lossless files and you can transfer these to your Ipod.
I use Max to convert from 24 Bit flac or wav to .m4a (Apple Lossless)
http://sbooth.org/Max/

edit to add: Itunes also will convert 24 bit wave to Apple Lossless 24 bit
just don't convert 24 bit Apple Lossless to wav or aiff (Itunes will only convert to 16 bit)