Best Audio Player /w waveform display for OS X 10.10

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  1. no@h

    no@h Newbie

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    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

     
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  3. nikon

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    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.
     
  5. Hans242

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    You might want to have a look at Rogue Amoeba's Fission or this lightweight free player here: http://nulloy.com
     
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    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! : - )
     
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    I use Foobar2000. Pretty fast, and has many visualization options.
     
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    Hans242: I've tried Nulloy, it acts the same as Fidelia : - (
    meowingtons: foobar seems like and only windows release aswell
     
  9. Hans242

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

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

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    I am running VOX at the moment. It's a nice mixture of performance and compactness for generic playback. I also recommend IcedAudio AudioFinder for your waveform needs. :) Has a nice feature-set and a nice spotting function.
     
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    no@h Newbie

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    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!!
     
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    Did you copy my answer above ? :)
     
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    Except that I don't run Snapper anymore, switched to AudioFinder. But it just reinforces the fact that VOX is a great player. :)
     
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    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/
     
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