Run all the Windows Media Player troubleshooters If the issue persist, I would suggest you to place the computer in a clean boot state and then check if it helps. You can start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. VLC Theme (OS X Yosemite) The Mac OS X version of the VLC media player does not support skins, but this VLC skin brings the Mac experience to your player. The skin also has a dark version and features all UI elements and interactions from Mac OS X. Visit Website. This high-rated VLC media player skin has a minimal look.
You can't add much more indirection than making someone credentialize in a manual to do something as trivial as showing timestamps. Better hope you catch that one-liner tip and then remember it when you're back in the app at some other point in time. I'd rather every app just have a hamburger menu with a menagerie of settings so that those settings can exist even if they're too hard to design for. Instead designers write blog posts that shame everyone for making those menus in the first place.
Hidden gestures is the worst UX of all. For the same reason Siri will never replace a CLI - completely probabilistic, unknown interface. Yay for anything!= iTunes. I've been contemplating the iTunes dilemma for quite a while and decided that I needed to start moving off iTunes and not be locked onto a specific platform. My approach so far is to store my audio files in cloud-based object storage system, including a SQLite file as my catalog.
When I start one of my players, it pulls the latest copy of my catalog and then starts random play. My latest player is Raspberry Pi with HiFiBerry DAC+ that outputs to my home stereo. I just pulled all of my content out of iTunes on my laptop about a week ago, but still have it on my iPhone and iPad.
Every little move away from iTunes makes me happy. Afplay on Mac and mpg123/mplayer/aplay on Linux can provide a decent start with your own controller driving it.
I love the 'not iTunes' argument, but the thing I miss from nearly all those nice little players is library management. I have a lot of music I like to browse. My wish list: 1) Browsing by album, with or without covers. 2) Playing a song should queue the rest of the album starting from that song. 3) I'd like to be able to 'discover' music I don't listen often to.
Like reverse sorting by last play date. To many time I 're-discover' that I have music from artist X. 4) When I press the play media key on my keyboard (and the player wasn't paused), it should start playing something I like/play often. 5) Of course 3 & 4 should be automatic without creating any playlist. Mac OS has an audio mixer that works in a fixed predefined format unless the audio device is open in exclusive mode.
So here comes the problem: audio mixer is usually set to highest audio rate your DAC supports. But for better experience it is recommended to set it to native rate of the source material. That's why it is very beneficial to know what audio format you are currently listening to. You can then go and adjust the pipeline to match that format. A mismatch between source and DAC sampling rates leads to an undesirable aliasing. This is the very same effect when you try to watch, say, 1920x1080 desktop screen on 2540x1280 LCD monitor. Audio is considerably more forgiving to such a mismatch comparing to video, but still this is a noticeable and undesirable effect, especially when you have a high-end audio pipeline.
Plays MP3s (also FLAC, AAC, AIFF and WAV) What about OPUS? The player looks really cool but OPUS (together with FLAC) is the audio format of today, not MP3 (in fact it is plain ancient and the worst option available today, worse than WMA, worse than Vorbis, worse than AAC, worse than OPUS). As for me I've recoded hundreds of gigabytes of MP3s to OPUS already to save huge lots of space (which is very precious on a 128 GiB MacBook SSD as well as on mobiles) without loosing quality. Did you know a 32 kbps OPUS podcast/audiobook sounds exactly the same as a 192 kbps MP3?
The ratio is not this mind-blowing yet still very impressive for music files too: 128 kbits OPUS music file soudns like 256-320 kbps MP3. Please add OPUS support and I will start recommending your player to everybody.
This is obvious. Whoever collects MP3 files already knows what a lossy compression format means. I don't mean recoding FLAC to OPUS can save space without loosing quality, I mean recoding MP3 to OPUS can save space producing a file of the same quality as the MP3 original is.
Obviously it will have less quality than a FLAC/CDDA original but not less than MP3 (unless you actually set the bitrate too low). I am sure converting a 256 kbits MP3 to a 192 kbits OPUS means no loss anybody can hear and converting it to 128 kbits OPUS may only mean tiny loss almost nobody can hear. Speaking about lossy format implies there is always a loss from the mathematical point of view, no loss means no perceivable loss in this context.
The number of natively supported formats on OS X is quite small, so users often need to install special software to open media files in other formats. Instead, try Movavi Media Player – a handy lightweight program that will serve as the perfect WMV, AVI, and MKV player for Mac and let you forget about format incompatibility issues forever. With Movavi Media Player, you can enjoy your favorite films and songs in more than 50 formats and watch high quality video without system crashes and annoying slowdowns.