So, I’ve been using a macbook as my main workstation for 6 months now, having shelved my Inspiron 8200 for the time being. I’ve really grown to like OS X as it is really a super usable Unix desktop OS. I can have all my unixy goodness and a hassle free desktop environment.
One thing that has bothered me for a while is the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a simple light weight music player app for OSX that just plays music. Itunes tries to control everything and is a resource hog to boot. I’ve compiled xmms on OSX but using esound for sound output makes it use half the cpu on my machine which is silly since playing mp3’s is something my pentium 75 could do in 1996.
Anyway, tonight while googling for itunes replacements I stumbled on cog. This is an excellent little music player that plays my CD’s. mp3’s and pretty much everything else. Anyone looking to play music on OS X without using itunes should try cog.
