Free audio playback devices software for mac

Requirements: G3, G4, or G5 processor (G5 required for HD playback), Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

AudioRack is an audio player system for Mac OS X intended for use in live-assist and automated radio. AudioRack contains a "rack" of five players which can be loaded with audio files and controlled manually, or loaded and segued automatically under program control from a playlist (radio segues, not the iTunes style fades).
AudioRack has extensive AppleScript support which allows it to run unattended. AudioRack is also a database front end for MySQL that may be used to manage, organize and find the audio files that it plays.
AudioRack requires access to MySQL in order to run -- HOWEVER you can play audio files that are not in the database library without the files being automatically added to the library (as iTunes does).
Finally, AudioRack has a separate audio playback engine (called arplayer) that does the grunt work of playing the files (any file that quicktime will play) using a 10 second long ring buffer and Apples core-audio system. Unless your computer is really hung up, it wont glitch - even with sluggish networked audio files.
As long as the network can maintain the encoded bit rate of the file over ten seconds, it wont glitch. This does NOT use QuickTimes built-in (yuck) player! Did I mention that it is also an open source program so you are free to add, improve, and customize it?
Enhancements:
- Added "event notification" support for input and output VU meters in support of a new client application.
- Fixed a bug where closing a recorder that is waiting for a timed start causes arserver to hang.
- Added support for dividing the audio mixing workload across multiple processors, if available, on a player by player basis using Apples Deferred Render AuadioUnit - previously, mixing would only make use one processor. This feature is only enabled if more than one processor is detected on the host computer.
- Added GUI for setting up the IAX telephone.
- Fixed a bug causing IAX telephone callers to only be in the left channel.
- Fixed a "double memory free" that _sometimes_ caused a folder pick to fail.
- Fixed the outnames and innames functions for getting audio device channel names if the device supports it. AudioRack now uses these names in the arserver input and output settings panel if an device makes them available.
- Fixed the problem where you had to wait a minute after shutting down for the control port to clear before that port could be reused by running arserver again.

AudioLobe 4.2 is designed to help you independently alter the playback speed and pitch rate of audio files. If you are a musician or interested in audio this means you can slow down complex sequences of audio without the vocal or instruments sounding unintelligible. Great for learning difficult notes in a musical sequence.

For example, you could set a section of the audio to loop at whatever playback speed you want and easily follow what is happening, without having pitch changes. AudioLobe 3 allows files to be saved with altered play speeds and major update update to the interface.

Major Features:

1. Alter playback speed and pitch independently.
2. Save audio/video with altered playback speeds to new files.
3. Drag and drop playlist.
4. Easy to use and intuitive audio controls.
5. Supports all the common audio and video formats.
6. Major update to the graphical appearance.
7. Displays detailed audio track data.
8. Autosaves column width changes and positions, new preferences for color control.
9. Separate window for audio indicators and audio power levels.
10. Many minor improvements for list clearing, software updating, control sizes, help menu, etc.
11. Full-featured demo version. Saving of altered-speed audio files available with $20 license.
12. Play adjusted-rate audio/video files exported by AudioLobe in other free apps such as QuickTime, ReelBean, etc.

M-Audio Delta Series is a free and easy to use driver installer package for the M-Audio Delta series of PCI audio cards.
This driver package applies to the following devices:
- Delta 1010 (including MIDI)
- Delta 1010 LT (including MIDI)
- Delta 1010 AI (including MIDI)
- Delta Omni Studio
- Delta 66
- Delta 44
- Delta Audiophile 2496 (including MIDI)
- Delta Audiophile 192 (including MIDI)
- Delta DiO 2496
- Delta TDIF
- Delta R-Bus (including MIDI)
- Delta-410
NOTE: Once you have completed installation, connect the device to a USB port on your computer. The use of USB hubs is not recommended when using M-Audio devices.

System requirements:
- M-Audio Delta Series audio card

Audio Recorder is a scriptable application that records audio from the default input device and saves it directly to an AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, MP4, or WAV file.
Main features:
- Record from the default input device selected in the Sound preference panel directly to an AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, MP4, or WAV file
- Monitor audio from the default input device to the default output device
- AppleScript support.
Enhancements:
- Universal binary
- Accessibility enhancements
- Added max level marker
- Fixed issues with Full Keyboard Access
- Fixed issue with AppleScript dictionary.

M-Audio Delta 1010/1010LT/410/44/66 contains drivers for this particular MIDI hardware solution.

This application is Macintosh version Link Soft for the CASIO Wrist Audio Player. Use of this application requires a separately available CASIO Wrist Audio Player. The Wrist Audio Player is a wristwatch type wearable audio player that can playback MP3 files you create on your computer or download from the Internet.

This application makes it possible for you to transfer such files from your computer to the Wrist Audio Player. The wristwatch configuration of the Wrist Audio Player makes it possible for you to take your favorite music along just about anywhere.

FMOD is a cross platform audio library that supports a wide range of audio formats and playback options, including a physically correct 3D audio engine. The FMOD Ex Audio Classes leverage FMOD to create a simple but powerful audio interface for REALbasic. Note however, that these classes do not expose all of FMOD Exs functionality, nor are they wrappers to access the FMOD Ex API directly.
First, a little background... The FMOD Ex API supports multiple concurrent "system" objects which may map to multiple audio devices installed on the same machine. Consequentially, all audio samples, channels, and effects are owned by a single system object and can not be shared. If a system object is destroyed, all sounds, channels, groups, and effects created under that system become invalidated and accessing them will generate errors (or worse).
To simplify this situation within the REALbasic environment, these classes do not allow for more than one system object to be active at any given time. Under normal circumstances this should not cause any grief - you call FMEx.StartUp when your application is launched, load your audio samples, create player objects, etc., then call FMEx.ShutDown when your application quits and all will be fine. If you have a need to restart FMOD Ex however, all existing FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer instances will point to invalid audio handles. There is error checking in place to avoid crashes if this situation should arise, but it can still be annoying. In order to properly restart FMOD Ex you should follow the steps below...
Call the Stop method on all existing FMExAudioPlayer and FMExAudioPlayer3D instances. You do not have to dispose of these objects, but calling Stop ensures the internal channel reference is reset.
Dispose of all FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer instances (i.e. set them to Nil). Be sure to also dispose of any FMExAudio instances that have been assigned to FMExAudioPlayer.DefaultAudio properties.
Call FMEx.ShutDown, followed by FMEx.StartUp, then reload/recreate all required FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer objects and re-route any submixers.
ByRef methods are provided to allow you to reuse existing FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer instances by replacing the required data/handles. This can be much easier than recreating them from scratch.
These classes couldve been simplified further by automatically reference counting audio objects and starting/stopping FMOD Ex behind your back, but that would preclude the ability to restart the audio engine at any time, and greatly impair the start up options interface.
- Virtual Channels
One of FMOD Exs most touted features is automatic channel virtualization. This allows you to play sounds on more channels than are physically available and let FMOD Ex decide which are more important based on priority settings and 3D positioning. One caveat with virtualization is that you must call FMEx.Update as frequently as possible for this to actually work (e.g. in games youd typically call FMEx.Update every frame). NOTE: If youre already calling FMEx.Update for 3D audio you do not need to call it twice.
- MIDI
MIDI playback currently only works on Windows, and only if the default system sound font is installed (/windows/system32/drivers/gm.dls). Broader MIDI support is on the would-like list but primary tests point to a broken implementation on Mac OS X (i.e. some FMOD Ex bugs need to be fixed before this can work).
- Other bugs...
Stereo sounds routed to submixers may "pollute" the wave data of other submixers. Everything else works as expected however and the audio output is correct, but submixers may return incorrect values when calling their Level methods. This appears to be a bug within FMOD Ex itself but more testing is required.