If you want to listen to “exotic” (such as FLAC, SHN or even MP3) audio formats in a mac, you can use Cog, it’s an open source audio player…
It might not be pretty, or have visualizers, or transcoding, but its fast and simple, I commonly use it to “test” the audio I got from concerts to later get them to my ipod.
You can have it here:
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Yes, Cog and Play do work ok, and Max is the best utility I’ve found for OS X per ripping/transcoding FLAC but I’m curious about running a MT-DAAP aka Firefly media server that will do the transcoding on the fly allow me to share the FLAC to iTunes as a native “Shared Library” w/o having to transcode all my FLAC to ALAC. That would be preferable if it works. Though it does require you have one computer just to do the transcoding/serving.
I never think about it, I’ve used the mt-daap server a time ago, but never touch it again, It sounds feasible, the moment the guys in the firefly media server makes it osx compatible,right now only says -Support for Mac OSX (coming soon!)-
It’s a very good approach, I have to try it when I have a little time to do it
thank you for the idea and comment
for those looking for the firefly server:
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/
wow nightly build support it, and a little hacking seems possible, I will make another post If I get it to work