So simple under Windows, and almost impossible to find for Mac. An audio player that: - starts up in under half a second - plays the most important formats without gaps (aac/mp4, flac, mp3, ogg, aiff, wav) - does not skip the beginning of the audio files no matter how short they are - can auto-load and play all files from the folder it played the first file from - is more like 3MB in size, not 30MB Under Windows, there's 1by1, billy, winamp, XMplay and many others. @fiction: Sorry mate, but I can't see a workflow scenario when one needs a player that 'does not skip the beginning of the audio files no matter how short they are' - I mean really, put kick samples in a playlist? On the other side, VLC starts fast as @Stevitch also confirms if you really want to use a 3rd party. But iTunes is a very powerful beast for playing audio files (and way more better organizer than one can make within a folders structure) if you have the patience to adapt a little bit to it's required workflow.
Usually all the needed apps are present in Mac world - some of the redundant ones, not so much. But if you insist on having windows habits on OSX world, you'll have many headaches. Click to expand.I don't doubt that iTunes is good for proper management of tagged music files. But that's not the case for usually non-tagged samples.
Canon mp610 manual. I admit that I've come to love the little Windows goodies, and I might have to get used to 'Mac way of thinking' - anyway, what surprises me is that the tools do in fact exist (Vox, Cog, Winamp) but they're either so buggy that they still seem to be in alpha state or their features are too limited for this purpose. VLC looks like the best option still, will try a clean install again. So simple under Windows, and almost impossible to find for Mac. An audio player that: - starts up in under half a second - plays the most important formats without gaps (aac/mp4, flac, mp3, ogg, aiff, wav) - does not skip the beginning of the audio files no matter how short they are - can auto-load and play all files from the folder it played the first file from - is more like 3MB in size, not 30MB Under Windows, there's 1by1, billy, winamp, XMplay and many others.