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- Known issues (and solutions)
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- Third party code attributions
- Contributor attributions
- License
Aural Player is an audio player for macOS. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be easy to use and customizable, with support for a wide variety of popular audio formats and powerful sound tuning capabilities.
Aural Player is written entirely in Swift (approximately 100,000 lines of code). It uses AVFoundation's AVAudioEngine framework (and some low-level Core Audio) for playback, effects, and visualization, and uses FFmpeg libraries to decode formats not native to macOS.
Read more about it here.
(Comprehensive feature list here)
- Supports all Core Audio formats and several non-native formats: (including FLAC, Vorbis, Monkey's Audio (APE) & more)
- Supports M3U / M3U8 playlists
- Playback: Bookmarking, segment looping, custom seek intervals, last position memory, chapters support, autoplay.
- Effects: Built-in effects (incl. equalizer), Audio Units (AU) plug-ins support, built-in / custom presets, per-track settings memory.
- Playlist: Grouping by artist/album/genre, searching, sorting, type selection.
- Information: ID3, iTunes, WMA, Vorbis Comment, ApeV2, etc. Cover art (with MusicBrainz lookups), lyrics, file system and audio data. Option to export.
- Track lists: Favorites list, recently added and recently played lists.
- Visualizations: 3 different visualizations that dance to the music, with customizable colors.
- UI: Modular interface, fully customizable fonts and colors, built-in / custom window layouts, menu bar mode, control bar (widget) mode.
- Usability: Configurable media keys support, swipe/scroll gesture recognition, remote control from Control Center, headphones, media control devices / apps).
The following features may be implemented in the future:
- A file browser.
- Allow for multiple playlists.
- A single window "Unified" user interface mode.
- A nicer playlist UI with customizable columns and a "tiles" view.
- Replay gain.
- Crossfading between tracks.
- Gapless playback.
- More extensive unit testing.
- More comprehensive documentation.
- Better source code commenting.
This table lists the minimum required Aural Player version for your hardware and macOS version. It is always recommended to use the latest app version, regardless of your hardware / macOS version.
Intel (x86_64) | Apple silicon (arm64) | |
---|---|---|
macOS 10.12 - 10.15 | 1.0.0 | (N/A) |
macOS 11.x (Big Sur) | 2.3.0 | 3.0.0 |
NOTE: Version 3.0.0 and all subsequent releases are universal binaries, i.e. capable of running on both Intel and M1 Macs.
- Mount the AuralPlayer-x.y.z.dmg image file.
- From within the mounted image, copy Aural.app to your local drive (e.g. Applications folder).
- Run the copy from your local drive. You will likely see a security warning and the app will not open because the app's developer is not recognized by macOS.
- Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Open anyway, to allow Aural.app to open.
NOTE - Please don't run the app directly from within the image. Copy it outside and run the copy.
Follow the steps listed here.
Please read this important note, otherwise you will lose your previous app settings.
All you need is Xcode 12.2+ and the source code (a working knowledge of Swift would help !). It is recommended to use the source code from the latest release (as opposed to the master branch) as code between releases can be buggy / unstable.
Read the quick start guide for more details.
All the documentation can be found on the wiki.
Building and running Aural Player (quick start guide)
I encourage you to provide feedback or start a conversation about features you'd like to see implemented, bugs you've encountered, or suggestions for improvement.
Email: aural.student@gmail.com
GitHub Issues https://github.com/maculateConception/aural-player/issues. I'm usually pretty good at responding to issues, even if I'm not always able to fix them.
- FFmpeg (used to decode audio formats not natively supported on macOS)
- MediaKeyTap (used to respond to media keys)
- RangeSlider (used in the Filter effects unit to specify frequency ranges)
App user yougotwill made numerous suggestions for improvements and features, provided a lot of valuable feedback, and designed the Poolside.fm theme.
Fellow GitHub member dun198 made significant contributions towards this project - performance optimizations, UX improvements, etc.
Aural Player (in both forms - source code and binary) is available for use under the MIT license.