I recently rolled to OS X and can't seem to find a decent audio player similar to Reasonic player, which is awesome but sadly yet windows based.

I have tried Fidelia, which doesn't even start up:
(Not even the official demo version)
and Snapper, which works a bit squishy (I have to leave designation on the audio file, for like 3-4 seconds then wait for it to build the waveform up then audio starts to play, this is basically 5-6secs. And it supposed to be a sneak-peak audio player, right?)

Any suggestions on either fixing Fidelia, optimizing Snapper or choosing another player? : - )
- OSX 10.10 MBpro 12 i5 8gb

 

I'm using Vox https://coppertino.com/vox/mac it's lightweight and it looks like winamp but it is not with waveform. With waveform I use AudioFinder http://www.icedaudio.com/site/

 

No@h, maybe you should get a faster computer instead. Waveform creation always takes some seconds, unregarded of which player you have. But with a faster processor (and an SSD hard drive) it should work fast enough with Snapper.

 

You might want to have a look at Rogue Amoeba's Fission or this lightweight free player here: http://nulloy.com

 

Hans242 I've had the same spec PC, literally the same and Reasonic player didn't take time to build waveforms (not just when reading off cache). That's why I blamed the player. And also there's SSD in every MBPR after 2012

Thanks for the replies, checking them out atm! : - )

 

I use Foobar2000. Pretty fast, and has many visualization options.

 

Hans242: I've tried Nulloy, it acts the same as Fidelia : - (
meowingtons: foobar seems like and only windows release aswell

 

no@h: Maybe you should write a support message to the Fidelia and Nulloy developers?

 

Fidelia v1.6.4 works here. Unistalled the old version with AppDelete, installed the new version & ran Permission Reset on the app.

 

up: VOX runs smoothly, and it's free. Been using for an hour but i love it. I'll work around with snapper for waveform display Thanks for the replies!!

 

Did you copy my answer above ?

 

Except that I don't run Snapper anymore, switched to AudioFinder. But it just reinforces the fact that VOX is a great player.

 

AudioFinder

http://www.icedaudio.com/site/

 

For a music playback with a waveform display nulloy is the best player, though it can't read CUE files, but still it's cool to play un-split files in it too, because you can see where track starts and ends in waveform display and yes waveform display acts as a seek bar, plus you can resize waveform display as big as you want, in full screen mode that's all you see, that's a waveform progress bar, awesome!
http://nulloy.com/
Without a waveform display, Cog is the best to me, it's free and the guy on macrumors updated it, and it looks awesome.
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cog-2016.1947801/

 

Last edited: Feb 28, 2016