Gabor Hargitai Colibri v1.9.1 MacOSX-TNT

TNT | 08 August 2019 | 18 MB

Native Lossless Audio for macOS. A refreshingly new addition to the audio player scene. Colibri is a native macOS audio player built from scratch on top of the award-winning BASS technology. Colibri supports cristal-clear bit-perfect playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a clean and intuitive user experience.

Saves your battery – Colibri uses a barely noticable amount of computing power during the playback of your music. The application is built using state-of-the-art Swift 3 programming language, the BASS audio engine is bundled as machine code while the interface uses built-in components by Apple. This was done in order to achieve a tiny footprint and to be as native to macOS as humanly possible.

Plays your audio – Colibri is able to playback the most widely used range of file formats in terms of lossless audio: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, TTA and WavPack – along with these popular lossy formats: Ogg Vorbis, MP1/MP2/MP3 and AAC/M4A. Additional format support might be considered if requested.

Handles CUE Sheets – Colibri reads, processes – and to some extent – sanitizes cue sheets. Malformed and disordered content is reprocessed during loading and should audio files written in the sheet be missing then Colibri makes a few educated guesses on the possible file name/extension. If the sheet does not contain artist, song title or album information then Colibri tries to extract the song info from the audio file header itself.

Supports gapless playback – Colibri is extensively designed from the ground-up to provide a true gapless listening experience – with or without using a Cue Sheet.

Picks up where you left off – Colibri saves your current playlist upon quitting and re-opens your songs when you start it up again, maintaining the song data between playback sessions, regardless of having them previously loaded from CUE sheets or single files. Apple’s Sandbox protection is fully supported.

Avoids most problems – Colibri does its’ best to avoid most problems before, during and after playback – however there are situations where error checking and guessing indexes won’t suffice. Loading unsupported files show up as an error message in the status bar and files that have disappeared since loading are automatically removed and skipped upon being reached in the playlist.

Understands your language – Colibri is capable of rendering the song information as it was intended to be shown: of all the tried metadata it had no problem with displaying cyrillic or kanji/katakana/hiragana characters mixed with ASCII.

Respects your privacy – Colibri does not phone home, collect usage data or modify files in any way. The only data it remembers are your playlist and settings: the loop mode state, whether to show the menubar and which pieces of info text to display in the status bar – nothing else!

Displays album art – Colibri displays embedded cover art for FLAC files. When that yields not results then it looks in the folder where the current song resides for a cover art image.

Resides in your Menu Bar – Colibri can place an unobtrusively small icon in the Menu Bar for easy access and playlist control: you can either start/pause the playback, skip to the next track or go back to the previous one. It also displays the info and cover art image of the current song.

Integrates with Finder – Colibri conforms all of Apple’s strict requirements – which means that it shows up in Finder as an option in “Open With” when a supported file is selected. Which in turn also makes it an available as a suggested file association option.

Adjusts to your Display – Colibri’s interface elements scale themselves nicely on every screen resolution and pixel density.

► What’s New in Version 1.8.1

Thank you for using Colibri! This update contains a completely redone CUE sheet reading engine, introduces cover art support for ID3/iTunes metadata and fixes a handful of bugs while improving the overall stability and usage experience. Happy listening!

What’s New v1.8.9 ?

ENHANCEMENTS

Added missing DSD file type associations for Finder
Added an on/off switch for the Equalizer as for some reason I totally forgot to include it
Added a new default DSD Data Sending method that should play even nicer with your DACs: ‘Native with fallback to Auto’
Unplayable / gone missing songs are now marked in red and are not removed from the playlist
Such unplayable files will be cleared from being red if the path to them becomes available/reachable
Enhanced the Sandbox handling to better differentiate between ‘unreachable’ and ‘reachable, but non-existent’ file paths
Reworked DSD data signal chain handling to make Colibri more crash-proof in terms of selecting DSD sending methods not supported by the DAC
Colibri can now figure out what to do with Cue Sheets that have alarmingly disorganized content

BUGS FIXED IN THIS UPDATE

Sandbox permission dialog would constantly pop-up if a song went missing before playback
Moving multiple songs around in the playlist would confuse Colibri
Pressing the stop button wouldn’t always instantly stop the playback
Colibri would sometimes highlight the wrong song as currently playing in the playlist
Colibri would mix up remembered songs in the playlist if some of them disappeared before launch
Colibri would crash when some songs are reordered during playback
Fatal crash would occur if multiple songs went missing during playback
Playlist songs would not accept the reordering properly during playback
Playlist would become disorganized if a particular song type is moved during playback
Colibri wouldn’t be able to come up with a random song order and would just grind to a halt
Colibri would crash upon loading seriously non-conforming Cue Sheets