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:

http://cogx.org/