Free playback audio software for mac

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

Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg (Vorbis), Ogg (FLAC), Musepack, WavPack, Monkeys Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.

Play is integrated with the official Last.fm client, so you can share your listening habits with everyone. Consider joining the Play Users group!

Play is freeware, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

iBook 2001 Audio Patch 1.02 is released for iBook 2001 (dual USB) with an aim to effectively correct an audio problem with this new consumer portable. The problem is this: iBook 2001 seems to turn off some audio component after 30 seconds of silence and WILL cut off short audio samples (and delay longer ones) when audio is played after a long silence. This patch will play a low data rate buffer of audio silence every 15 seconds to prevent the audio hardware from turning off. This seems to resolve the problem.

This application will use up some CPU cycles (and will probably shorten battery life a little) in trade for the audio playback fix until Apple releases an official patch. Once this happens you will no longer need this little application.

Requirements:

• 2001 iBook (dual USB)
  

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.

Logic Platinum is the centerpiece of the worlds premier music composition and audio production system. The most powerful product in the Logic Series, Logic Platinum is renowned for its technical excellence, and is used by more professionals than any other software of its kind.
Logic Platinum 5 offers countless creative options for MIDI and audio manipulation. It features extensive audio hardware support including TDM (Mac OS), OMF and OpenTL support, and is capable of 192 tracks of audio playback at up to 24Bit/96kHz rates, in a variety of audio formats. The audio functionality also incorporates a digital mixer with Surround Sound up to 7.1, over 50 high-quality audio effect plug-ins, and fully-automated, sample-accurate mixing facilities. The 32 Bit internal signal path ensures that audio quality remains pristine throughout, and the incorporated high-end POW-r dithering process provides master-quality results. Logic supports a virtually unlimited number of MIDI tracks with timing accuracy to 1/3,840 of a note. A wide range of synchronization options ensures that Logic Platinum connects easily to both the digital and analog worlds.
Most importantly for professionals working in music production, film scoring or post production facilities is Logics renowned stability and reliability. This unique combination of tools, an elegant user interface, flexible working methods, rock-solid performance and a comprehensive development schedule make Logic Platinum the perfect software environment around which to base your studio.
Enhancements:
- MIDI Hardware: Access to MIDI hardware is gained over the Mac OS X standard known as "Core MIDI". This means that OMS, MidiManager and MidiShare is no longer needed. For the Unitor8 MkII, AMT8 and MT4, a Core MIDI-Unitor-Family-Driver is already available for USB interfacing. Core MIDI drivers are also available from other manufacturers such as Edirol, Event Electronics, Evolution, M-Audio (Midiman), Motu, Roland and Tascam. If you own another MIDI interface, check the manufacturers web site for Mac OS X compatible driver installers.
- Audio Hardware: Access to audio hardware is handled using the Mac OS X standard known as "Core Audio". This means that there is no further need for proprietary standards like ASIO, EASI or Direct I/O. There are currently Core Audio drivers for the built-in Apple audio hardware and the EMI 2|6, aswell as Core Audio drivers from other audio hardware manufacturers such as MOTU, M-Audio, Edirol and RME. If you own another audio interface, check the manufacturers web site for Mac OS X compatible driver installers.
- Plug-Ins (Effects/Instruments): Access to 3rd party DSP plug-ins will be covered by the Mac OS X standard known as "Audio Units". For further details please read the section below called "Audio Units - the native Mac OS X standard format for DSP plug-ins".
- Current Limitations: Autolink with Sound Diver is not currently avail

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.

USB Audio ASIO Driver allows you to use a laptop as a synthesizer or digital effect-box.

It enables buffersizes down to 32 samples (0.73 ms) and does an ultra highspeed USB audio connection, bypassing the operating systems audio.

This does not only give you low latencies but better sound quality also.