Mac Software Features. Best Media Players for Mac. While it's a bit of a niche in 2018, there are still a handful of great Mac-based media players available for download. Here are some of the. OS X Audio Players: Amarra, Audirvana, Pure Music, Fidelia, Decibel, and BitPerfect. Sometime in 2011 I began thinking about the possibility of doing a review on high quality audio players for the Mac OS X operating system.

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There are countless bit perfect players available for the Mac, ranging from free to pricy and from utilitarian to super duper library functionality. Usb apogee duet for mac. I started using software players years ago on a 2006 Mac Mini (Core Duo 1.66 GHz and 2 GB RAM) and currently use a 2011 Mac Mini (Core i5 2.3 GHz and 8 GB RAM) as music player. I have also used a 2010 MacBook Pro (Core i7, 2.66 GHz and 8 GB RAM ) and a 2008 iMac (Core 2 Duo, 2.8 GHz and 4 GB RAM).

All are equipped with SSD system drives. The newer Mac Mini uses a Western Digital 6 terabyte Thunderbolt drive, the others got their audio files over the network from the Mac Mini or a beefed up HP EX485 (Pentium Dual Core, 2.7 GHz, 2GB RAM) Windows Home Server. In the written review on the HB project dot com you can find all details. The reason I have not published a review sooner was that changes in the software came so frequently that by the time I had a proper opinion on a player, it was already updated again. So I gave up on reviewing but kept up to date on a number of players. Looking back, the evolutionary selection can be regarded as a kind of hands on review as well. But it’s not a review as I normally do.

Initially Initially there were two kinds of players: very basic and cheap players with horrible user interfaces and players that used iTunes as user interface with added status bar offering extra controls. I’ll give you my story on players, but keep in mind that players that I disapproved with a few years ago, in the mean time, might be improved. Most players offer you a trial period so if you want to check it out yourself, do so. The first drop outs Two years ago BitPerfect by BitPerfect Sound Inc. Was the first to leave the competition. This is a very affordable player, costing € 9.95 and I would have loved it for that reason. But it had a nasty mid range sound and didn’t have memory play.

There is no trail version available. Decibel by S-Booth was the second to leave the race.

It is a stand alone program and doesn’t require iTunes. The user interface is simple, some may like that others might not.

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But the reason to abandon Decibel was the sound quality which was clearly sub-par.