Folder-based music player for Mac?

[Deleted User]

Hello everyone,

This has been driving me insane and I’m wondering if anyone here has solved this problem before.

I have a large library of music organized by folder. Every folder is a separate album and contains either FLAC, APE or CUE. I need a player on Mac that can browse this structure and automatically give me the right playlist when I click on a folder. It should be able to do gapless playback.

On Windows I just use foobar2000. On Mac, everything I have tried (Clementine, Swinsian, Audirvana...) fails spectacularly. The only thing that sort-of works is Clementine and it still epic fails when I try to play cues.

I feel like this has got to be a fairly common and trivial problem but I’ve been searching for an hour and haven’t found any good solutions. Any Mac audiophiles solved this problem before?

Thank you!

[ConcertinaChap]

I think VLC should be able to do what you want. It's free too. It can understand just about every file format there is so that shouldn't be a problem. I have my mp3s organised in folders and it works fine with them.

Start VLC and click on Media Library. Then drag the top level folder from Finder onto the Media Library panel. Now when you click on the folder you should find all your subfolders and files arranged nicely within it. If you double click on a subfolder VLC will play its way through all the files in it.

Edit: having said that, I don't know what a CUE file format is so if I'm wrong about that one, sorry. Still it won't cost you anything to try and VLC remains an excellent, well supported player.

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[Wonks]

Cue is a metafile, not an actual compressed music format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)

[Nazard]

I use JRiver Media Center, on PCs, Linux and Mac OS. It's highly configurable and has regular updates, although not freeware.

There is a trial version so it may be worth looking at.

[ConcertinaChap]

Cue is a metafile, not an actual compressed music format.

OK then. From a thread in Another Place:

Cue files were originally used with CD burning software but they're recognised by a variety of programs including VLC (on a PC you'll need to right click on the .cue file, choose Open With... and then choose VLC).

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[zenguitar]

The OP was back with a spam post. He quoted his original post and added spam links inside the quoted text to try and sneak them past, He's banned now and I've changed the name of the poster so we can remove the spammer from the back office.

Andy

[ConcertinaChap]

Hm. Quite a convincing original post, suckered me. May the OP suffer from extreme bit rot. Thanks, Andy.

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[3rdConstruction]

Yowza!
And here I thought Deleted user was a cool forum name...

Still, the replies are quite helpful as I've been interested in looking for an alternative to iTunes. I mostly read rather than post and I have to say the forum regulars are always a helpful bunch.

[Sergey Morozov]

2 years ago I had same problem. And then I thinking why not? I have 20+ year of experience in C++ programming and my hobby is High quality sound.

Several days ago I finished first version of my QXPlayer.
Now this file based player as old school win player. UI I used from AKAI GX6. And this simple. But sorry not free while.
In the future I have plan remote control, play list, streaming (Spotify and other) and EQ. EQ in the next version.

You can find this on app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dsplayer/ ... ls=1&mt=12