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SHN/FLAC playback on Mac OS X

Started by tross, April 03, 2007, 11:00:22 AM

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tross

So im looking to play some shn files on my mac, so i downloaded Macamp lite x, then downloaded the shorten plugin, but can't figure out how to make it happen.  any help would be greatly appreciated

jephrey

I had used that method in the past (meaning 5 years ago), but since, haven't listened to flac/shn, I always convert.  Sorry I can't help, but it did work for me at one point.

Try this...  I might try it too.

http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/

J
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tross

thanks alot jephrey, that got it going.  :banana: :beers:

Casey Lenahan

Quote from: jephrey on April 03, 2007, 04:11:00 PM
I had used that method in the past (meaning 5 years ago), but since, haven't listened to flac/shn, I always convert.  Sorry I can't help, but it did work for me at one point.

Try this...  I might try it too.

http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/

J

Hey Jephrey what do you use to convert???

Ive been using this old ass program called Magic Jelly Bean Software but i was looking for something better.
I owe Aug $20

jephrey

xACT  best out there.  Most macheads use it.

J
There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

haleakalari

ditto on xACT, it is the mac equivalent of mkwACT for windows, if not better. when it comes to playing shorten files on mac it is a toss up between play and cog. you can get the programs mentioned from the following locations;

xACT - http://mac.majorgeeks.com/download5504.html
Cog - http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/
Play - http://sbooth.org/Play/
The bemonstering of your ganache awaits!

jephrey

Sweet, never saw play before, but I've been out of the loop because my first task after archiving is to get stuff out of shn/flac and into apple lossless.  I've altered my system so I don't listen to flac/shn at all.  However, it looks like the resources to play that stuff is coming along nice.

J
There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

haleakalari

i wish i had enough hard-drive space or enough hard-drives laying around to keep a lossless archive of all my shows, but this is not the case... yet. for a whiiiile now i have just stuck with converting all my lossless music to ogg at a 5.55 quality setting for sbds and a 7.18 quality setting for audience recordings, with a lowpass filter set at approximately 19500Hz. i do keep shows that have sentimental value, (IE: ones i have attended where something special or unexpected happened, or if the date of the show was around mine or a loved one's birthday etc..) in their original lossless formats though. but one day when i have enough money to splurge, hopefully soon, i am totally buying a quad-core mac with two 500gb hard-drives. for now though, i will be fine with my 80gb one.
The bemonstering of your ganache awaits!

tet

#8
Cog just put up their own web page, and their developer squashed a bug that kept SHN playback from working properly, so now it's really the best option for gapless, lossless audio playback on a Mac:

the new main site is:  http://cogx.org


and go to http://cogx.org/development.php ; for the latest 'nightly' build.  they are marked as Unstable, but it's been quite stable for me, and better than the Release/Stable versions that have very few features (SHN support is shitty on those). 
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-Phish

mattstick

I can't believe I did'nt see this thread until last night.

Great playa! +K for the tetman & jeph

mattstick


What do you guys use to edit the tags on the FLAC files?

Caravan2001

yeah, sweet apps...I always convert most everything...this rocks, thank you

newplanet7

I just use nero media player and it plays flacs/shns/apes ...etc
I also use nero to burn and I don't have to convert flacs...
Just drag and drop. I like to keep it simple.-t
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tet

Quote from: newplanet7 on August 04, 2007, 07:43:08 PM
I just use nero media player and it plays flacs/shns/apes ...etc
I also use nero to burn and I don't have to convert flacs...
Just drag and drop. I like to keep it simple.-t
no Nero on Mac ;)

i figure there's enough info out there on good Windoze apps for these purposes, so i'd make a bit of a repository for anything Mac related here. 

on Mac, you can accomplish the same using Toast 8, at least for FLACs.  not SHN, but i'm always hoping they'll add that someday. 
"We want you to be happy"
-Phish

mattstick


I'm having problems with Cog being unstable.  I've had to un-install and re-install it a couple times because it will crash immediately after I open it.  Now it's doing it again.

Any tips here, I've repaired permissions, have lots of free space on the system drive...