{"id":95,"date":"2007-12-29T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T09:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:30:25","slug":"cog-a-great-itunes-replacement-for-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Cog: A great itunes replacement for OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been using a macbook as my main workstation for 6 months now, having shelved my Inspiron 8200 for the time being. I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that has bothered me for a while is the fact that there doesn&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s is something my pentium 75 could do in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, tonight while googling for itunes replacements I stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/cogx.org\/\">cog<\/a>. This is an excellent little music player that plays my CD&#8217;s. mp3&#8217;s and pretty much everything else. Anyone looking to play music on OS X without using itunes should try cog. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/cog.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/cog.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"cog music player\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been using a macbook as my main workstation for 6 months now, having shelved my Inspiron 8200 for the time being. I&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=95\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cog: A great itunes replacement for OSX&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}