Something like Foobar2000 for mac?

May 21, 2015 9:05 AM

I'm looking for an audio player for my Mac. I really like Foobar2000 on windows, but sadly it's PC only.

I'd like it to:

-Support all file formats (or at least AAC, MP3 and FLAC)
-Have an FFT interface where I can look at the music in the time and frequency domains along with a spectrogram. Being able to mess with the parameters is a plus.
-Something lightweight, preferably with a modular interface.
-Free?

Any suggestions? Thanks!

posted by Lutoslawski to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Clementine is the best I've found. It's far from perfect (notably, it's a bit of a CPU hog even when idle) but the UI is pretty decent.

Vox is a runner-up but the UI is a bit obnoxious, and it relies on your iTunes library.

Unfortunately there aren't too many decent options for music players on Mac...
posted by neckro23 at 9:56 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

For the minimal, yet usable and intuitive UI aspect of Foobar, this fork of Cog probably gets the closest. It's what I use on my Mac when I just want to play some goddamned music files. However it has no audio processing plugin aspect whatsoever.
posted by zsazsa at 10:01 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

MPD would probably suit your needs if you can find an interface you like.
posted by kenko at 11:10 AM on May 21, 2015

It's not free ($19.95), but I bet you'll like Swinsian. Reviews from Macupdate are here.
posted by LuckySeven~ at 11:15 AM on May 21, 2015 [1 favorite]

No suggestions, but have you considered wine? It works fine for me in Debian. If not, there's hope for a native OS X port, eventually.
posted by Bangaioh at 1:12 PM on May 21, 2015