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Is there A Music Player that will play .flac files?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mr 005" data-source="post: 1428442" data-attributes="member: 263852"><p><strong>A solution</strong></p><p></p><p>Well after searching for quite some time, i think i have found a solution to mac flac problems. I have tried everything mentioned on this thread, and all of them were pretty crappy compared to using winamp on windows. I do realize this thread is a little old, but i found it while googling so i'm sure someone else will.</p><p></p><p>Anyways, I have found a player called Clementine. Works on all platforms, including OSX Lion. <a href="http://www.clementine-player.org/" target="_blank">Clementine Music Player</a> I was able to flawlessly import flac files off of an external drive over the network (it is connected to a different computer as a server) and play them with ease. The only other player that was able to do that was cog, and i found it pretty crappy. This has a file tree on the side showing all of your albums and you can easily navigate through MANY albums, artists and etc. with no problem. You can also search for a specific band, song and such. You can change buffering, cross fading, and much more in the settings. I had to do a bit of changes to get it how i wanted it and it is great. No lag at all. It is a bit more of a larger application processor and RAM wise than other applications, but i don't think its a problem these days. I strongly suggest the app, i am very glad i found it and it is by far the best mac app supporting FLAC that i have used. It isn't bulky, but isn't too light to have no functionality. Truely, my only problem is that my albums are sorted by folders, due to so many meta-data differences, but that is mainly my own fault. Clementine uses meta-data, as it should.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr 005, post: 1428442, member: 263852"] [b]A solution[/b] Well after searching for quite some time, i think i have found a solution to mac flac problems. I have tried everything mentioned on this thread, and all of them were pretty crappy compared to using winamp on windows. I do realize this thread is a little old, but i found it while googling so i'm sure someone else will. Anyways, I have found a player called Clementine. Works on all platforms, including OSX Lion. [url=http://www.clementine-player.org/]Clementine Music Player[/url] I was able to flawlessly import flac files off of an external drive over the network (it is connected to a different computer as a server) and play them with ease. The only other player that was able to do that was cog, and i found it pretty crappy. This has a file tree on the side showing all of your albums and you can easily navigate through MANY albums, artists and etc. with no problem. You can also search for a specific band, song and such. You can change buffering, cross fading, and much more in the settings. I had to do a bit of changes to get it how i wanted it and it is great. No lag at all. It is a bit more of a larger application processor and RAM wise than other applications, but i don't think its a problem these days. I strongly suggest the app, i am very glad i found it and it is by far the best mac app supporting FLAC that i have used. It isn't bulky, but isn't too light to have no functionality. Truely, my only problem is that my albums are sorted by folders, due to so many meta-data differences, but that is mainly my own fault. Clementine uses meta-data, as it should. [/QUOTE]
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