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Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.

For lossless formats such as FLAC and WavPack, and for Ogg Vorbis and specially-tagged MP3 files, Play supports gapless playback allowing sample-accurate audio reproduction.

Play's powerful searching and organizational features make finding music a snap! Play's integrated browser allows you to easily locate tracks in your library grouped by artist, album, composer, or genre, while smart playlists create unlimited ways to combine your music.

Need to make changes to your audio files' metadata? No problem! Play has a powerful integrated metadata editor that allows multiple files to be edited at once, even if the files are in different formats.

Never touch your volume control again! Play supports replay gain, allowing files to play at a constant volume despite inherent differences in their loudness.

Play is integrated with the official Last.fm client, so you can share your listening habits with everyone. Consider joining the Play Users group!

Release Notes

Improved Audio Handling and User Experience

The audio internals have been rewritten to take advantage of Core Audio. Play now processes all audio at 32-bit floating point precision, and supports DSP effects using Audio Units.

The user interface has been streamlined: the player controls have been moved to the window's toolbar, allowing more space for the title and artist of the playing track, and the seek bar has been expanded to allow more accurate seeking in longer files. Additionally, a volume control has been added for fine-grained control over the output volume.

The library is easier to navigate. Tracks can be browsed or added to the play queue by the artist, album, genre or composer of the selected track.

Replay gain metadata is better supported for MP3 and MP4 files.

MusicBrainz Integration

MusicDNS PUIDs can now be calculated for any track, allowing MusicBrainz lookups on files without metadata.

In addition to PUID lookups, MusicBrainz text-based searches can be performed for any track.

Minor Feature Additions

Rudimentary AppleScript support has been added, allowing scripts to control the player, get and set metadata, and add files to the library.

Apple Remote support added for play, pause, skip to next and skip to previous tracks. [329]

Table columns in the play queue and library can be shown and hidden using the menu bar.

Track sort order, random and loop setting are preserved between launches.

Bug Fixes

The play queue is now automatically scrolled to reveal the currently playing track. [308]

Numeric columns are now right-aligned. [293]

A bitrate column has been added to the play queue and library. [280]

Musepack playback now works correctly on Intel Macs.

Component Upgrades

The following components have been updated:

• SQLite upgraded to 3.5.1
• FLAC upgraded to 1.2.1
• libmpcdec upgraded to 1.2.6
• mp4v2 upgraded to 1.6.1
• TagLib upgraded to latest svn

Known Issues:

• Album art support is missing
• Some metadata is read-only
• Seeking in Ogg (FLAC) streams is not supported

Requirements

Play requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later.

Help and Support

Need help with Play? The forums are a good place to look for answers to common questions.

Does Play not seem to be working properly? File bug reports using the issue tracker.

Is Play missing something? Could something be better? Submit your ideas for new features to the issue tracker.