Appmuse

I really wanted to recommend this app, but unfortunately I experienced inexplicable errors that make using it a real nuisance. It is a shame, because the ability to maximize my DAC to the full ability is great. Unfortunately, it will refuse to play random files. Files ripped as AIFF using iTunes direct from CD, that have never experienced any issue playing on any other device. So there are many albums that seem to only play every other song. Until they fix this, I cannot recommend this app. Show more

Always so excited when I see a new update for this! It's my favorite music player, hands down!

Have done a side by side comparison of the sound quality. Clarity, precision, and imaging are just stunning. It plays DSD filesl now and can handle any high-def format I can think of. I still would like to see a limiter with controls you can set. Th simplicity is one of the big selling points and the application keeps with an audiophile, purist vibe. I have tried with with and without a DAC. Better with the DAC, but still stunning without one. With every update release this just keeps on getting better. Don't waste your money on Vox, Fidelia and other pay for apps. I have never seen a free app of any kind available in the Apple store. Try it. Nothing to lose and everything to gain. Hats off the developer. This is sweet. Show more

Plays FLAC’s flawlessly. Works perfectly streaming content via USB C Audio 2 to my Cambridge CXN network player. Default output format 192,000 Hz 24-bit works great. Designed and executed well the kind of application that one appreciates from the user perspective. Show more

Was looking for something that would replace Winamp, coming from PC this is great. How do save a playlist or export one? ive tried to do a “save as” and nothing opens up to save it anywhere..or export it..thanks Show more

I've been following this app for a few versions and each iteration brings in new improvements, both in usability and stability. I'm very impressed by this developer's dedication to continue to perfect what is most certainly the most bang you're going to get for free in terms of music players. Everything from its exhaustive file format support to the ever-improving, intuitive user interface, this player's got you covered. I still find the audio settings a tad confusing (I never know when OSF is applied or how to completely disable it) but you'll also find some pleasant surprises in there such as the A-B looping. It may not be perfect but Pine Player is certainly heading in the right, 5-star direction. Show more

I am giving this an initial 1 star. I was hopeful that it would be the simple player I wanted to do a quick review of audio files. It crashes every time I try to play a file. In this case a .wma file. I am using Mojave 10.14.2. Maybe it needs an update. Show more

Can't complain about this player. It's free and it's compatible with everything I throw at it. I have FLAC of all bitrates, DSD/DSF files, SACD ISO files. Perfect to play music on my work laptop without having to manage a library. I only have issues with 2 things. Audio processing/EQ is not great. It can easily saturate and mess up the audio quality and you will only noticed sometimes in the middle of a song. Sometimes I though I had a bad rip. The 6db on DSD for instance is something you don't want. Also, the option of being able to delete the actual file on the disk from the right click menu is always disturbing me. I am scared of actually deleting a file instead of just removing it from the playlist. But frankly it is only a tiny UX issue. It's free, and can't complain. It's more easy to use than the big players like JRiver that have way too many knobs when you just want to play a track on your disk with a USB DAC. Show more

Sounds better with it off. The EQ should sound "when On and flat" like it does when it is off, Then you have a reference. But it seems to not work that way. Turning it off sounds better than uaing the presets. EQ needs more work, but great player~!! Show more

I am a PC guy, and all of my music is losless and at least CD quality, and most of it is 24 bit 96khz plus, I even have alot of it in DSD format, which is great. However, it can be Really hard to find good support for all of these file types and sample rates in one audio player. This is why I use Foobar 2000 on my PC. It is not for the average end user but that is fine for me as I am pretty computer savvy, and it is an excellent player. This worked for me for years until I got a new job and I had to switch to using a Mac. I was displeased to find that the Foobar 2000 port for OSX is a shell of its PC version, and it didn’t have support for DSD files. This is when I found Pine Player. I was amazed to see that it had support for nearly every file type I could think of out of the box. It has a simple and easy to use UI and is very lightweight. Even though it doesn’ have as much customizability and visualization capability as Foobar 2000 I dont care because I need to use it while I’m at work. So the developers of this program for the most part have done a great job; However, there is one glaring issue, and that is this built in oversampling filter. If you spend all that time programming such a versatile music player one would assume that they would know alot about audio upsampling, quantization errors, converting from float to integer and how all of this affects the final signal fidelity and noise. Yes, I realize that the average user is going to be using crappy Apple headphones or Beats, and listening to lossy highly compressed music, so applying the “expansion” equalization preset and then oversampling will actually have an effect, but this player can play DSD and bit rates up to 32. Therefore it makes no sense at all to use when you have audio in the 24bit 96khz range. 24 bit audio is hard for computers to upsample or downsample because either way, cvonverting to either 16 bit or 32 bit, its not a simple mathematical function because 24 does not divide evenly into either, this introduces errors in modulation that manifest as noise and fidelity loss, and this is copmpounded upon when using a USB headset as I am, especially because mine only outputs in 16 bit. This is why it is mildly infuriating that there is no option to turn off the OSF for non-DSD files, and you have to manually choose the bitrate. The application should do this automatically. Furthermore, the program should not be misleading users with a popup telling them to boost their output bit depth to 32 or 24 if it’s set to 16, as most of what they will be listening to is below that, and as I explained earlier, this just introduces alot of noise. The only improvement is that it gets louder, but that is only because of the apparent dynamic range compression that occurs from raising the noise floor. In conclusion: Please make an option for turning off the OSF, or at least something like a 'source bitrate’ button. If you’re going to oversample, at least give the user dithering options as well. Show more