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Apple Notes
- In order to install sqlite3 on Mac using brew, you can simply run: $ brew install sqlite3 Probably, you have already installed sqlite3 because by default it comes installed since Mac OSX 10.4 onwards.In this case, you can update sqlite3 using brew by running the following command: $ brew upgrade sqlite3.
- Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina has dropped support for XMLs with the iTunes app, now called Music. The Sonos software looks for an XML file for importing playlists out of iTunes. Because of this, music libraries shared with Sonos will not be able to find playlists that are created in or updated with the new Music app.
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While Mac users continue to wait in anticipation for new Mac hardware and software, we explore a really neat application you might not realise you even own, which lets you create your own MIDI- and audio-based visual performances.
It feels like the calm before the storm in the Mac world. Compared to last year, when, thanks to Apple's transition to Intel processors, barely a month went by without some new Mac-related product revision or introduction, this year we have yet to see any new Mac product, whether hardware or software. (I should add a writer's most important caveat to this remark: 'at the time of writing', which is the end of February 2007, incidentally.)
Quartz Composer: make sure you have the right MIDI ports enabled to receive MIDI from the Settings page of the Inspector for the MIDI Controllers node.
On the software front, of course, what we're all waiting for is Mac OS X Leopard (which could arrive as soon as the end of March, according to some rumour sites on the web). All versions of Mac OS X have brought about significant improvements for musicians and audio engineers, and with Leopard making it possible to run complete 64-bit applications, it's going to be really interesting to see what apps like Logic Pro do to take advantage of the 64-bit processors shipping in almost every Mac right now.
Speaking of processors, with Intel now shipping quad-core chips and web sites like Anandtech (www.anandtech.com) proving that it's possible to give Mac Pros an unofficial quad-core heart transplant (giving you eight cores in total), a Mac Pro revision must surely be on the horizon as well. Despite a slow start, I think that 2007 could start to get more interesting very soon.
A Stoned Composer
In previous Apple Notes columns, we've looked at both the treasure chest of tools Apple supplies as part of its developer software, included with every copy of Mac OS X, and the potential of graphics technologies for music and audio. This month, in the first of a two-part series, we're going to look at an application that falls into both categories: Quartz Composer.
Quartz is the name for OS X's graphics engine, which takes care of rendering 2D graphics on-screen and compositing together images from multiple graphical sources. Such a simple description belies the full power of Quartz, as we shall see. To allow developers to easily create Quartz compositions, to produce interesting visual effects in their applications, Apple introduced a developer tool called Quartz Composer with Mac OS X Tiger. If you're not sure what type of visual effects we're talking about, the RSS Visualiser screensaver included in Tiger is a good example of the kinds of graphics Quartz makes possible.
Quartz Composer is a node-based system that allows you to build various graphical compositions by dragging around nodes that generate, render or manipulate visual sources and specifying how they behave with each other by making connections between the nodes. If you've ever used a modular synth such as Native Instruments' Reaktor or dabbled in Logic 's Environment window, you'll instantly grasp how to work with Quartz Composer.
The really interesting thing about Quartz Composer from an electronic musician's perspective is that among the many control sources you can use to manipulate the images are various MIDI and audio tools. This means you can easily create custom visuals that respond to incoming MIDI and audio signals. These have several uses, such as adding performance graphics to make a live show more interesting. While Quartz Composer is pretty deep, we're going to look at a simple example this month to get you started, before getting a little more advanced next time.
Romancing The Stone
The first step is to run Quartz Composer, located in the Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools folder. If you can't find this folder, make sure you have the Developer tools that came with OS X installed, and also make sure you're running Tiger (10.4). When the application opens, it prompts you to create a 'new composition from template', which you don't want to do, so click Cancel instead. Now, either click on the Quartz Composer icon in the dock or select File / New to create a blank composition.
Assuming you made all the right connections, Quartz Composer's Viewer window should look like this when the modulation wheel is all the way down.Quartz Composer features two main windows: the Editor, where you build your compositions, and the Viewer, where you can see what your composition looks like as you build it. The Editor window has two sections: on the right is a grid where you drag around and connect nodes, and on the left is a list of nodes you can create. You can search for nodes by typing in keywords in the search field above the list.
Type 'renderer' into the search field and double-click the Sprite Renderer to create this node in the Editor (you can also drag entries from the list into the editing area to create them as nodes). You'll notice that a large white square has appeared in the viewer: this is the output of the Sprite Renderer. Now let's create an image to put into the Sprite Renderer. Type 'halo' into the search field and create a Lenticular Halo Generator.
What the box? (itch) mac os. Each node can have two columns of properties: the left column of properties is inputs and the right column is outputs. Drag from the Image output of the Lenticular Halo to the Image input on the Sprite; a yellow connection should be made between the two nodes and the viewer should now display the halo effect.
You can inspect the settings for nodes in an additional pop-up window called the Inspector, which you can open by choosing Editor / Show Inspector or clicking the Inspector icon on the Editor's toolbar. The Inspector always shows settings for the selected node in the Editor (the selected node has a blue outline), and quite often there will be multiple pages for a node, which you can navigate with the left and right arrows and the pop-up menu at the top of the Inspector.
Look at the Input Parameters page in the Inspector for the Sprite node. Let's change the size settings, so that the Sprite fills the entire Viewer, by editing the Width and Height values to '2'. These values indicate multipliers of the original size, so '1' is the original size, '2' is double the original size, and '0.5' would be half of the original size. Values can be edited by clicking on the value, entering the new value and pressing return, or by dialling in the value using the knob control.
Jewel Of The Nile
Now we've got a basic image being displayed, let's add some simple MIDI control. Type MIDI into the search field and create a MIDI Controllers node. By default, the MIDI Controllers node shows only pitch-bend and modulation, but more MIDI controllers can be added via the Settings page in the Inspector. In this page we also need to set what MIDI ports we can receive controllers from, by making sure they're checked in the Observed MIDI Sources pop-up menu. Also, note the Observed MIDI Channels settings, which let you specify what MIDI channels to listen to (note that the grey colour of the buttons actually means enabled; white is disabled). All MIDI Channels are enabled by default.
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Now, back in the Editor, make a connection between the Modulation Wheel output on the MIDI Controllers node and the Halo Radius on the Lenticular Halo node. Now move the modulation wheel on your external MIDI controller; what do you see? Nothing. Exactly. Open the Input Parameters page in the Inspector for the Lenticular Halo, move the mod wheel again and notice that (assuming your MIDI system is working and you enabled the correct ports for the MIDI Controllers node) the Halo Radius parameter is indeed changing. So why don't we see anything? One thing to remember is that Quartz Composer actually normalises incoming MIDI Controllers to a floating-point number between '0' and '1', where '1' would normally be 127 — the highest MIDI Controller value. We need to make sure the value we're controlling does something meaningful between '0' and '1'. You can't manually change a value in the Inspector if that value is being controlled by another source, as in the case of the Halo Radius value, which is being controlled by the mod wheel. So you need to simply break the connection by clicking on the Halo Radius Input on the Lenticular Halo node and dragging it away from the node. Now, back in the Inspector, manually change the Halo Radius value with the slider and you'll notice this value goes from zero to 1000 — so sending in a mod wheel value of zero to '1' was obviously quite ineffectual!
However, all is not lost. Type 'math' into the search field and create a Numeric Math node. Drag the Modulation Wheel output of the MIDI Controllers node to the Initial Value input on the Math node, and drag the Resulting Value output on the Math node to the Halo Radius input on the Lenticular Halo node. In the Inspector, select the Input Parameters page for the Math node and set Operation #1 to Multiply and Operand #1 to 100. This means that all incoming values will be multiplied by 100. Now when you move the mod wheel you should notice the Halo Radius visibly changing.
Unfortunately, that's all we've got time for! Next month, we'll start to look at animating our effect using audio, and adding some neat stuttering effects triggered by MIDI notes.
A Parallel Fusion
In February's Apple Notes, we briefly revisited the Parallels Desktop virtualisation software for Mac-Intel users, which allows other operating systems to run at near-native speeds alongside Mac OS X. As a company, Parallels are fairly recent to the world of virtualisation, and while they achieved great success last year with their Mac version, many expected long-established competitor VMWare to release a Mac OS X version of their popular virtualisation software when Intel Macs first became available. VMWare now have a public beta of Fusion, a virtualisation application for the Mac, in full swing. You can download a copy from www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion.
Fusion 's performance is currently deliberately crippled, to allow developers to debug the application, but already there's support for neat features like the ability to run a 64-bit operating system, which you can't yet do in Parallels Workstation. There's an interesting video on YouTube that shows an experimental version of Fusion with support for virtualised 3D graphics with hardware acceleration (which Parallels are also said to be working on), allowing you to run graphically intensive applications on your virtual machine.
Last Updated: November 4th, 2020
Music player software has been in trend soon after the launch of smartphones several years ago. Mobile operating systems including Android, iOS, etc along with the PC-supported OS such as Windows, Mac and others have provided a provision to launch in-built music player software along with the launch of the operating systems. The basic idea behind thinking to give the importance to the music players by the biggest IT companies only lies in the fact that the music players are one of the most used software installed frequently by the users in all the kinds of devices including mobiles, tablets, PCs and even others. So far as the matter of best music players for Mac is concerned, Apple’s iTunes has already been launched as per Apple’s provision, however, it is not at all suitable for the music lovers who want to use their individual selected music library and operates them as per their desire. Unlike Apple’s iTunes, a music player must be extremely lighter and faster and should have the ability to get easily organized with custom playlists, audio profiles, music libraries, multiple formats of the audio, etc to name a few.
Best Music Players For Mac (2020)
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1. VOX Music Player
It is one of the best music players developed exclusively for Mac which holds all the best properties inside it being loved by the music lover community. Playlists can be created with quality to properly organize the music lists. One of the major features of the software is that it allows you directly drag and drop the songs into the playlist without any issue. In addition, the SoundCloud account can also be connected and our own music can also be synced with both the accounts very easily. Several formats of the audio are instantly supported without any problematic issues.
2. Audirvana Plus 3
The software has been developed exclusively for the audiophiles and delivers a best quality audio output to the music lovers of Mac platform. The software is made equipped with surprising syncing as well as the structural ability and therefore, soon after the queuing or deleting up the music files from the concerned destination, it automatically reflects inside the software’s app. Top rated and high-resolution music formats are exclusively supported as well as the users can sync TIDAL as well as the Qobuz account simultaneously in case the music is not locally stored on the Mac.
3. Clementine
Clementine is one of the most renowned open-source music players all over the world acting more than just our simple music player. In comparison to the other players, syncing, the facility has been made more enhanced with instant syncing with several sources such as Dropbox, Google Drive, SoundCloud etc. The best-loved feature about the software is that, in addition to frequently playing the music, it provides added information about the song being played via the software. It also handles remote app for the android supported mobile phones for controlling distantly played music.
4. Tomahawk
This music player supports several platforms including Linux, Windows and even Android in addition to the Mac OS. The app has the capacity to scan the hard disk drive of the Mac OS and add the music files itself inside the music library for instant play. The software also supports plug-ins for music streaming service providers. Being an open-source music playing platform, it is also compatible with extracting and playing music from YouTube as well as other video platforms totally for free.
5. Swinsian
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The software is compatible with several audio formats and thereby almost all the music of all the formats can be played without any issues. Music libraries with the biggest collection of music files can also be managed with comfort. Podcast player is made inbuilt inside the app of the software which is highly appreciated by podcast lovers. Smart playlists can also be created based on the filters of several categories.
6. Musique
It is one of the extremely light weighted software and thereby the OS does not have to bother about the functionalities and the space taken by the software on the device. The software has also been made available with the Linux and Windows platform with an extremely simple user interface. The software mentions several other useful information about the song and it is also completely free for downloading and can also be donated to developers as per the user’s desire.
7. Pine Player
This music player app is made available to download completely for free and use supporting multiple audio formats and exclusive features and specifications such as crossfade and even the gapless playback. Drag and drop facility has also been introduced which helps to add the music files instantly to the library to get them played without any hassles. It also reflects the file type being played can quickly be downloaded from the Mac store for instant use.
8. Nightingale
It is a lightweight open-source music player whose updates are yet provided by the developers with the best user interface. The music software provides an advanced kind of library management facility along with the frequent and gapless playback features and soft to feel interface. DRM audio can also be along with Windows media supports.
9. Quod Libet
Quod Libet is a Latin name meaning thereby “Whatever you wish”. It is also one of the most famously used open-source music player which was designed and developed as a cross-functional and exclusive platform from the get-go firstly in the year 2004 with best functionalities. The software interface is extremely easy and handy to use and is therefore been placed under the best music players for Mac category.
10. Elmedia Player
Highest standards of audio files are exclusively played with the interface support of this top-end and quality rich software. iTunes content is smoothly operated on the environment except for the kind of support for the DRM contents. Music can be effectively streamed from one Mac environment to another Mac environment and the software also works fine as an exclusive music assistant to keep track and records of all the music files with the best organizational structure inside the playlists.
Listed above are the best Music Players for Mac OS X and an alternative to iTunes. Which is your favorite Music Player for Mac OS X? Share your views in the comment below!