Very nice and easy to use media player with a simple UI. I use it to play music all day, every day. I find it to be very stable with frequent updates. If you want a straightforward music player, this is an excellent choice.
Very nice and easy to use media player with a simple UI. I use it to play music all day, every day. I find it to be very stable with frequent updates. If you want a straightforward music player, this is an excellent choice.
For whatever reason, every time I load my locally stored music and start to play it the player locks up after two or three songs. This results in my needing to force quit the player. This freezing is reliably reproducible. I am using an M2 Pro Mac mini with 32 GB of memory and 4 TB of storage. I am running macOS Sonoma 14.6.1.
简单好用
I wanted to try the free version before purchasing the full version, but it seems the free version doesn't work - AT ALL. I downloaded it on my Mac and I get an app that looks like its for a phone, and when I search for a song NOTHING HAPPENS AT ALL. NOTHING. I've clicked "open" and "install" several times but it simply doesn't work. This is too bad... really wanted to give it a try. I'm using it with MacOS Sierra 14.4.1
It's a small, sleak window with lots of information and features packed in. I appreciate that - it feels like a CD player! The metadata editor and the equalizer are similarly well designed.
This app surpasses others in providing an exceptional user experience. It's evident that the developers meticulously considered both music file quality and interface design. Supporting a wide range of formats from mp3 to FLAC and AAC, it operates seamlessly. I highly recommend this music app!
...I expected additional features, like an editor where you can adjust EQ of various segments, adjust track length. That being said, I totally liked the previous free version on my older macbook, now I will spend some time researching other apps. But, I have Korean friends, love them all, so I'll probably part with the $30 anyway...
Was once great, no longer is. Paywall killed it all. Back to Colibri.
I've used Pine for 2 years now and it's been great, that is till the last couple weeks. After last update it has been total junk. Low quality playback, sounds like mp3 on high res 192kHz files. Stop working or will not play at times and this is even after a fresh install. Such a same.
Now the app functions properly! There were issues with sandboxing but they are now fixed! I bought the Pro version, but, anyway, it is a shame that it crippled the free version! Prior to ver 4.0 you had DAC Control mode available, now, not anymore!! It is a Pro feature! It was removed from the free version! Other than that the player is excellent!
If you want to keep your EQ and other useful features, DO NOT UPDATE. By updating you lose the features because the developer has made it so that they are only available via the new app, costing $30. Just so you know. Read the notes before you continue.
This app was great until a few days ago, when "Pine Player Pro" suddenly appeared and most of the features were paywalled. The new UI looks worse as well. Such a shame.
Was a great little standalone media player, UNTlL the latest update (12/24/23). Not only did they initiate an expensive paywall, the free version no longer plays media files. They now played garbled and at 2x, sometimes, 4x speed. Same files that played perfectly fine prior to the update. This app will be deleted immediately after this review. To the Devs, there's got to be a better way to manage your apps than this.
Wow...I just went through several of the popular recommended audio players, but I'm stopping here. Here's why. The EQ presets and adjustments all seem to give a sense of dynamic presence that is completely lacking in all the other players I've tried. On other players, some of the EQ presets are so difficult to listen to, you wonder why they are even included. In Pine Player, every EQ preset provides a noticeable adjustment to the music's presence without ruining the underlying original sound. I had to drop one star because the music has sporadic dropouts that I am going to have to spend time trying to reconfigure settings to see if that problem can be overcome.
Minimal but highly function app. Perfect for anyone with a large library of CD rips.
Simple great player, and free! But somehow now is not loading saved playlists.. Wish this was fixed!
This player along with Bitperfect used to be defacto apps for playing music and improving on iTunes sound. Well neither of these apps have been updated in years and iTunes is now Music and thus invisible to Pine Player. Bitperfect just constantly crashes. Apple needs to clean up the app store and jetison the antiques that are no longer functional.
this fine piece of software not only plays your FLAC files, it will as well take your mp3 files and transform them to FLAC, you as well have the choice of bit rate and compression, and on top of that this will play SACD, ISO, DSD/DSF, personally I havent used the EQ, so i wont judge , but for a free app this is awsome, they just need to make a moble app so I can get rid of Vox which has lost all my music twice then doubled every single thing uploaded....A
I wanted to play some audio files and ir played them all.
This is the only free app I know of that can play files from the Finder (e.g. not in some library) and will automatically change my DAC's output to match the audio. Swinsian does for my library, but I have lots of files I organize myself in folders as well. Lots of people seem to use DACs but then use software than does not adjust the sample rate of the output device.
真心的不错,还是免费的,太棒了,我能听到老cd上面的歌了
I hope they don't do any 'updates' that makes the player worse or crashes it (like MP player).
a free app does all a media player needs
Have your software QC in check.
This is my goto app for listening to FLAC files. Works great and you can convert to mp3 and many other formats. They update the app regularly to fix bugs and add features. I am very satisfied.
Luv Pine Player. Great software! Any audio I through at it, it plays. I luv that I can play my high resolution audio on my Mac and use my external DAC also. Thank you so much for making this software. It is so versital and customizable. I wish This was available for my iPad Pro M1 in some form. I don't need all the customizability there, just the ability to play my high res audio there. I know there are some apps available for iOS, but most are subscription apps that have horible design.
load your songs in there and send them to othere band members who can't open the files? Guess why. Right, Pine Player adds it own extension so only YOU can hear the files. Hoooray for propriatory playes!
Long time Windows User here. I've a big library of FLAC Audio files on my Synology NAS and when I transitioned to OSX, to my surprise, the navite Music Application does not support FLAC. After searching for several options, found Pine Player and it is amazinng. Reminds me of WinAMP for the simplicity of it. Gets the job done. I would pay if needed to gave it and jet IT'S FREE. EQ is not great, but it gets the job done.
not support M3U8 format
This player is simple and nice, it has some GREAT hidden features like splitting an SACD .iso file to the respective .dsf files, and metadata editing for them too... BUT... it converts everything to PCM before the DAC. For Macs, it should use "DoP" to "wrap" the DSD stream in a PCM header for compatable DACs. Also it will not load, play or covert DST compressed SACD images.
Good audio player. thanks
I like this app generally. It is small, light, and easy to use. But there is one glaring omission: It doesn't work with Mac's native media keys. (and MacOS now has a persistent "what's playing" feature, that does not detect this app). This omission makes this app all but unusable when you using it in the background. You have to use your mouse to control your music either by bringing the app to for foreground or using the space hogging media controls it places in your status bar. This issue is made worse by the fact of how long it has been around and how recently it has been updated. I love the A/B loop buttons on the player. I couldn't find an app with the loop on the UI. (Like with Elmedia or VLC, you have to access it through a combintion of keys or by navigating menus). If the creators added the media key feature (and expecially it they added the ability to add you tube videos and listen to the audio) this would be my go-to music app. Alas, though, until then, it will stay uninstalled.
Excellent simple approach to music player. Do try 'expansion' function in EQ. Product would improve if window could be made wider to show detail.
Pine Player doesn’t play anything on my 10.9.5 MacBook Pro. Error message: audio device initialization failed. I couldn;t get the player to work on any audio device inclusing the built-in. Visit the support web site and you get redirected to a pitch for internet hosting. On the second attempt I was able to defeat the redirect. The apps’s support forum is littered with Russian spam. So: to conclude, 1. doesn’t work 2. no support 3. likely scam/spam operation Why is this allowed in the app store?
When I come back after a lionger pause, it doesn't remember where I left off with a longer audio file... now I have to constantly remember where I was when pausing and go there when coming back: useless
Pine Player started out OK. Sound quality was good and it had usable features. But at this point I can open it up and can't do anything. I really don't know what's going on and I'm not gonna try to come contact the company to get advice. I don't have time to waste with this anymore.
Great option for spliting SACD ISO to DSD file. It also has a decent metadata edit function. Good all-in-one app!
very useful, thanks the author
I have been looking for a program that can play FLAC files and this one does a great job (better then VOX and the others I tried). And if that was not enough this little gem also converts to AAC & MP3 each with a choice of bit rates. And it is FREE without ads popping up. Maybe not a replacement of iTunes but a definate alternative.
I just started using this Hi Res player and i am totally amazed by the quality of sound it produces. I am using it to play my Hi Res files using Airplay on Yamaha RX-V675 receiver. Only thing I have noticed it doesn’t show the song title on receiver. Also Upscaling is not working while listening music on Airplay. I am not sure whether it is airplay restriction or receiver. But I think receiver DAC can play upto 24bit 192 Khz. Last, I noticed in recent update that the playback is not smooth upon turning on / off the Equilizer. Thanks for this wonderful app.
I spent a lot of time ripping my CD Collection and my SACD collection, when I switched over to the mac I needed to get a decent player for DSF and flac files. This program is perfect, works great on my new m1 mac mini. It is free, but it is something i would pay for. Also works great with 192k flac files I have purchased.
If you need a good (and FREE) app for DSD, FLAC... so this is the one you are looking for. The UI is extremely simple and easy to looking for the functions I need. Audio output is awesome. I could pay for this app in reasonable price if it is not free anymore.
icon is too large in big sur
Was searching for such applicaition for a while - just drag'n'drop files to playlist and start playing, without any clouds, accounts, imports and other modern stuff. Great job, thank you developers!
A free player that allows my Mac to split and convert audiophile SACD ISO files that can play on my system. My Mac now sounds almost as good as my stand alone Elite SACD player but with added convenience of a huge library on my desktop. Thank you Ahn Siseong!
Tried this player out. Nice functions, seemed to work ok on the first few playbacks. The interface is a pleasure, ability to edit tags, large cover, etc. There is a glaring playback issue where at the end of a track there are long gaps of silence. Something is wrong with the buffering. Cross Fade Time changes nothing when adjusted. Basically, there is no gapless play possible. This is very noticeable when 2 tracks are supposed to flow together. You will get a 4-6 second gap, the timer will go past the track limit, and eventually it gets pretty tiresome. Please fix this. Unfortunately, at this point its gotta go in the trash for me and gets 2 stars.
Like the feature sets and simple logical layout. Seems to crash when I try try to add a .dsf (DSD) file to the playlist Might be the horrably inadaquit memory on this iMac? works fine for .flac files. Like the app otherwise tho.
Thers' many kind of players on Mac app store but they are mostely expensive junks even some players want to pay monthly. This player maybe an excellent player among of non-cost.
Coming for .dsf format player. Pine player just works, quick and powerful. Last but not least, you know it's free. Cheers,