Aural Player

Overview

Aural Player is a free and open source audio player application for the macOS platform. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be to-the-point and easy to use, with a variety of convenient and efficient controls, plus some additional sound tuning capabilities for audio enthusiasts who like to tweak sound.

Summary of features

Playback of MP3, AAC, AIFF/AIFC, WAV, and CAF audio files
Supports M3U/M3U8 playlists
Sound effects: Graphic equalizer, Pitch shift, Time stretch, Reverb, Delay, Filter
Recording of clips in AAC/ALAC/AIFF formats
Track segment looping, to allow users to loop their favorite parts of a track
Configurable autoplay (on app startup and/or when tracks are added)
Display of ID3 and iTunes metadata, including artwork (when available)
Grouping of tracks by artist/album/genre for convenient playlist browsing
Favorites list and recent items lists for added convenience
Searching and sorting of playlist
Multiple compact and flexible view options - playlist docking/maximizing and collapsible views
Gesture recognition for essential player/playlist controls (trackpad/MagicMouse)
Extensive set of keyboard shortcuts and menu items for quick and convenient access to functionality
Extensive set of preferences to allow user to customize functionality (e.g. seek/volume/pan increment, enabling/disabling and mouse sensitivity for gestures, remembered/default volume on startup, remembered/default view on startup, etc.)

Compatibility

User: Running Aural Player requires OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later macOS versions.

Developer: To develop Aural Player with Swift 3 (master branch) requires macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and XCode 8.x. To develop Aural Player with Swift 2 ("swift2" branch) requires OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later and XCode 7.x.

Background

Aural Player was written by an audio enthusiast learning to program on OS X, coming to Swift programming from many years of Java programming. This project was inspired by the developer’s desire to create a Winamp-like substitute for the macOS platform. No feature bloat or unnecessary annoyances like iTunes.