Audirvana is a free and simple to use audiophile player for Mac OS X users. No equalizer, no trendy special effects, just the music.
In a nutshell, Audirvana enables you to listen and modify your favorite tracks with ease.
Here are some key features of "Audirvana":
· Native playing of FLAC, libSndFile (WAV, AIFF, ...), ALAC and other quicktime formats (AAC, MP3, ...)
· Direct sound path, directly to the CoreAudio HAL for pure bit perfect sound
· Audio Device exclusive access mode
· Automatic sample rate switching
· Up/Oversampling capability
· Plays completely from memory
· Tracks are loaded, decoded and sample rate converted in a memory buffer before being played
· Minimizing CPU and hard drive activity to lessen sources of interference
· Gapless playback by using a double buffering mechanism (playing track and next track)
· Handles Apple Remote