Cog features

• Gapless playback
• Automatic updates
• Last.fm support
• Global hotkeys
• Desktop notifications
• Shuffle, 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
• Spatial Audio for supported devices, requires at least macOS Monterey

Supported formats

• MP3 (including free format, up to 640kbps)
• WAV
• MPEG-4 container, including chapter support
• Matroska container, including chapter support
• AAC
  • LC-AAC
  • HE-AAC
  • HE-AACv2
  • xHE-AAC (USAC)
• Apple Lossless (ALAC)
• FLAC (including OggFLAC)
• Ogg Opus
• Ogg Vorbis
• AC3
• Windows Media Audio
• DTS
• TrueHD
• HDCD
• TTA True Audio
• TAK (Tom's Lossless Audio Kompressor)
• Monkey's Audio (APE)
• APL (APE Linking File)
• TwinVQ
• RealAudio
• ATRAC3
• Musepack
• WavPack, including DSD support
• Interchange File Format (IFF) including DSDIFF
• DSD Stream File (DFF)
• Wideband Single-bit Data (WSD)
• MIDI
  • SoundFont support via BASSMIDI.
  • FM synthesis via Nuked OPL3,
  • Audio Unit synthesizer support, including Apple's DLSMusicDevice and Roland Sound Canvas VA.
• Shorten
• Tracker music via libopenmpt (supported formats).
• SID
• Game music
  • GBS
  • NSF
  • SPC
  • VGM
  • VGZ
  • PSF
  • SSF
  • DSF
  • QSF
  • USF
  • NCSF
  • 2SF
  • Streamed music via vgmstream
• Archive files
  • ZIP
  • RAR
  • GZip
  • 7Z