App: Cog (kode54)
Developer: Christopher Snowhill
Genres: Music

A truly versatile audio player application. Features gapless playback, global hotkeys, desktop notifications. Shuffle of both albums and tracks. Repeat single track,  album or whole playlist. Playback from HTTP(S) sources both livestreams and hosted files. Supports Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) using FFmpeg. Supports live metadata updates of continuous streaming servers, including Shoutcast, Icecast, Ogg Vorbis comments, and timed ID3v2 packets, where employed by the streamer. CUE Sheet support, including embedded CUE Sheets in several formats. Album artwork per track, both embedded and external, cached per unique image, in JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, or AVIF format. HEIC requires macOS Mojave, while WebP requires Big Sur. Graphic equalizer. Spectrum visualization in the toolbar, or a dedicated window. Spatial Audio support for supported sound devices. Multiple MIDI synthesizers, including the system synthesizer, (works with SoundFonts, or the system GS bank) or BASSMIDI. (requires SoundFonts)

Supports many audio formats, including obscure game and console formats.

Updates frequently, sometimes daily. Updates usually don't break anything. Unfortunately, I don't code to a pattern that would be conducive to stable updates and only frequent TestFlight builds.

Release notes:
Fixed a memory leak and a major playback crash bug.