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Author here, thanks for all the responses.

Gapless playback is high on my personal wishlist as well.

Same goes for additional audio formats. I was actually surprised that the latest macOS had built-in support for FLAC but there are a few others I'd like to add.

Both of these features will require a more custom audio solution, which may take some time to figure out... but it's on the roadmap!

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Geez, why didn't I know about this earlier? It's a life saving tool.

I have been using Cog or Gog or whatever but recently gave up. This thing is exactly what I needed. Not that iTunes shit that tries to move my files around or that electron shit that gobbles 1GB of my memory for just the nice transitions.

Why did you give up? I'm a Cog[1] user and I fail to see why this would be any better than Cog. It looks worse.

[1] https://github.com/kode54/Cog

Is this the new fork? I thought it doesn't get updated and I think last time it crashed on me or did something weird, so I stopped caring about it.

But this fork seems really good, too. Thanks, let me use both and see what I like more.

Tiny Player looks really cool. I really enjoy seeing genuine native macOS software. I feel like it’s becoming a lost art. Is the source code available anywhere?

It isn't but not because I would want to keep it secret. I just want to focus on making the app better and not on managing an open source project. I feel like it would add unnecessary stress for me. However, if I ever get tired of working on the app, I'm probably going to put it on GitHub.

fwiw, https://github.com/sbooth/SFBAudioEngine is a great library for supporting other formats, helps with gapless, and is reasonably easy to drop in. I've dropped it into an audio player I created with virtually no hassle.

Thanks, it's on my radar. I think I got some errors when I tried to build it though, so I'll need to get back to that.

Any chance of adding direct upload over a lightning cable instead of over WiFi? WiFi’s not working for me, though the same http server over WiFi function works fine to load music to VLC iOS. I even tried the Tiny Loader app on macOS but still times out. Thanks!

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