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Leader: sbooth
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Created on: 11 Feb 2007
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For Mac OS X junkies using the audio player Play - http://sbooth.org/Play/.

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“watch folders in play r1096” October 2009

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“Play not scrobbling” (3) August 2008

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s_p_morris

Hi Stephen. In my humble opinion Play is the cream of the crop, superb job, thanks a million! <echo>This is definitely the best Mac audio player ever!</echo> Cheers, Steve Morris.

15 Jan 2011 Reply
dtkenmo

What they said :-D Great piece o' work! Just learning how to use it. Would like to be able to play a file or from a folder w/o adding to library. Would also like to have alternate libraries. Stream support while nice, I can live without... can always use a different app for that. This is definitely the best Mac audio player ever :-)

20 Jan 2010 Reply
sbooth

The newest unstable versions of Play add metadata support for AIFF and WAVE.

30 Aug 2009 Reply
bubbalouie

Wow, Play is by far the best music player for OS X, it has almost everything I need in a music player & nothing more at last I have a fast player that can handle my library without breaking a sweat. Thanks Stephen you've done a great job on this.

5 Jul 2009 Reply
mauerblumchen

I recently switched to Mac, and my biggest lament has been the loss of foobar2k, but I just tried Play -- and Hallelujah! It's no foobar2k (I have to be honest!), but Play is leagues above all the other Mac music players I've trieda, and I see potential in Play to become outstanding. Thanks sbooth! I really hope you keep on developing it.

29 Apr 2009 Reply
muzicphan

Play works flawlessly on my old G4 without consuming much resource. The 31 band equalizer is awesome! Thank you!

21 Apr 2009 Reply
samebrian

I've been looking for a good iTunes alternative for awhile now. I had just about given up hope and was going to run Foobar2000 in something WINEish when I came across Play. I am very happy about the last.fm support, and the minimal look, feel, and footprint. I would also like to see an equalizer, and maybe a smaller control window like VLC has. Also, I really like Mac programs that can "close" (via clicking the x) without actually quitting the program. Minimizing is for browser windows and Windows users.

2 Apr 2009 Reply
Ghost_Collision

I'd like to see a minimal equalizer, and a volume amplifier akin to what VLC offers. On my laptop speakers sometimes Play isn't loud enough so I have to use VLC.

14 Mar 2009 Reply
sbooth

Play isn't dead- please send me any crash logs and I will take a look

6 Mar 2009 Reply
TryWait

play doesn't crash on my 2.8GHz Intel Core Duo iMac... it's great. I use it with Airfoil to broadcast to the sound system in my house. It did begin acting strangely today: it will not advance to the next song, and it will not play a song when I double-click on it. I do not want to do a new install because I have thousands of albums in the library. So I am about to begin digging in the forums. sigh.

28 Feb 2009 Reply
terriphin

Play rarely crashes for me...

6 Feb 2009 Reply
bigbadvoo

Play is awesome! I have a tiny portion (600) of my iTunes library (37k) on it for use while gaming, because bloaty iTunes cuts my frame rate in half (iMac G5 2Ghz). Never crashed, great sound (plays my 24 bit files deliciously), and uses very little resources. deadmanblake: care to divulge your system specs, and have you checked the forums?

26 Jan 2009 Reply
deadmanblake

i guess this player is dead

24 Jan 2009 Reply
deadmanblake

Nice player, but it crashes sometimes. Is a newer version coming anywhere soon?

11 Jan 2009 Reply
samiros

Was looking for a free player that supports audioUnits and with -play- I found one. still testing out. ohh, and Hello All!

2 Jan 2009 Reply
bichenoubi

TryWait, are you using iScrobbler ? If yes, uncheck "display artwork" in the preferences of iScrobbler and also, when using for the first time, do not let it creates stats about your library.

29 Nov 2008 Reply
TryWait

For some reason, every time a new songs begins in Play, iTunes launches. I cannot debug this weird little annoying glitch. Has anyone else experienced it?

22 Nov 2008 Reply
troy_co

Love Play, too! iTunes is just getting too big and bloated. Play is a breath of fresh air! :-) Also using Max to rip some music. Great combo!

4 Oct 2008 Reply
iamdooser

Play rocks! Thanks sbooth!

10 Sep 2008 Reply
TryWait

yo. I don't know if play and last.fm scrobble together but I hope so. I love Play. The biggest difference between Play and Cog is that Play works really well and Cog crashes regularly!

16 Aug 2008 Reply