Cog (kode54) vs Thyron

Cog is a free, open-source music player for people with music in more formats than any one player expects. Born on the Mac, it now plays your collection on iPhone and iPad, with the same audio engine and format support. PLAYS NEARLY EVERYTHING • Everyday and lossless audio: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, Shorten, WAV, AIFF and much more • Cue sheets, M3U and PLS playlists, and music inside ZIP and other archives • Internet radio and streams, including HLS, from any URL A HOME FOR GAME AND CHIPTUNE MUSIC • Console and computer rips: NSF, SPC, GBS, VGM/VGZ, HES, KSS, AY, SAP and more • PSF family: PSF, PSF2, SSF, DSF, GSF, 2SF, NCSF, USF, QSF • Commodore 64 SID tunes • Tracker modules: MOD, S3M, XM, IT, MPTM and dozens more, plus AHX/HivelyTracker, Syntrax and AdLib formats • Streamed game audio through vgmstream, covering hundreds of formats • Cave Story's Organya music MIDI, DONE PROPERLY • Play MIDI files with your own SoundFonts • Emulate a classic Sound Canvas synthesizer from ROM files you provide • Or use the built-in system synthesizer NOW PLAYING • A Now Playing screen themed from the album art • Lyrics, from your files or looked up online with LRCLIB • Spectrum visualizer • Equalizer with presets • Change speed, tempo and pitch independently • Hold Next to fast-forward and Previous to rewind, in the app, on the lock screen, with headphones or in the car • Shuffle, repeat, queue and Stop After This • AirPlay, Control Center and lock screen controls YOUR MUSIC, YOUR WAY • Import from Files, or add Music Locations to play folders in place, anywhere the Files app can reach • Folders are scanned with their tags and album art • Search your playlist instantly • Music copied into Cog appears in the Files app and in Finder SCROBBLING • Last.fm and ListenBrainz support BUILT FOR iPAD TOO • A layout made for the larger screen • Menus and keyboard shortcuts for hardware keyboards PRIVATE AND OPEN Cog has no ads, no accounts and no tracking. Your music stays on your device and in the places you choose. Cog is open source and developed in the open on GitHub, where you can report bugs, request features and read every line of code. Available in English and Spanish.

Your music, without subscriptions. Thyron is an offline music player for your own audio files. Enjoy a clean, redesigned library, organize your collection, and transfer music directly between your phone and computer. PLAY YOUR OWN MUSIC Import your audio files and listen without an internet connection. Enjoy lossless FLAC and ALAC, along with MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV and AIFF. Your music stays on your devices. MAKE YOUR LIBRARY YOURS Create playlists with custom covers. Search for tracks, artists and playlists, or find a song inside a playlist. Search handles small typos, so you can find your music even when you don’t remember the exact spelling. EDIT TITLES, ARTISTS AND ARTWORK Missing a title or artist? Hold a track and tap the pencil to edit its details. Add, replace or remove artwork. Changes are saved in the audio file in your library without changing how it sounds. TRANSFER TRACKS AND PLAYLISTS Move your whole library or send selected tracks and playlists to another device running Thyron on the same local network. Playlists travel with their tracks and covers. Files already on the receiving device are reused, and existing tracks are not deleted. No cloud server is involved. ENJOY CONSISTENT VOLUME Reduce volume differences between tracks without modifying your audio files. Volume normalization is enabled by default and can be turned off in Settings. KEEP LISTENING Use shuffle and repeat, keep music playing in the background, and control playback from the lock screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No subscription. Your library and settings stay under your control. Thyron does not provide music or a streaming catalog. Users are responsible for ensuring they have the right to use and transfer their audio files.