Its like 70 bucks USD
Foobar is not good on Mac
Pine Player is free tho
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Do any of these have anything better than the simplistic 10-band graphics EQ in iTunes?
Pine player has eq presets and the ability to do custom ones
Audirvana for windows can run vst eq plugins. Not on mac tho
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I also have a question. So i inserted my interstellar CD into the mac and it said if it wanted me to import the music into the Apple Music library and I said “yes”. I checked the files of the songs and it seems like they should be right. Bit rate is around 1k and around 44kHz
Does that sound right?
as in like will the apple music player be able to play it at it’s full quality, and is importing the same as ripping it
You can buy track by track on Bandcamp (FLAC) and Google Play Music (320 MP3), and old Amazon as well (not sure about Amazon HD). A few artists/labels disable it, but that’s rare.
That would be my case, where streaming is definitely not cheaper in the long run: I rarely find new artists that are worth my time, so paying constantly for access to a huge database only to ignore 95% of it would be absolutely more expensive for me, not to mention it limits me to listening only when I have working Internet. It’s DRM-free files all the way for me, TYVM.
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You’ll want to change the import settings to the “Apple Lossless Encoder” if you want to import your CDs in a lossless format in the Mac Music app. I also recommend enabling error correction. Check out this screenshot:
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All CDs are 16/44.1 quality
That sounds normal, as the bitrate is typically around 600kbps on CD quality files with not alot of sound information on them, and around 800-900 possibly reaching 1000kbps with files that have alot of info on them. The kbps really isn’t anything to worry about
For mobile, I use Flacbox
For MacOS, I use Colibri and for window I use Foobar2000
Deadbeef is really really good on linux, better than vlc imo because vlc I had some issues for a long time that no other players had. My one gripe with it is UI customization is doable, but very very garbage.
There’s also Audacious on linux which imo looks nicer and more simple to use, but I noticed plugins support is a bit less than deadbeef, you won’t find a waveform one for example.
Though for my needs, they both support the vgmstream plugin, so i am all good 
Newest VLC versions started crashing on my Debian machine, with mkv files crashing VLC, playing silently in the background just using ram and CPU until I try to open another video hours later and realize VLC is still messing up in the background. Also, the full screen menubar didn’t show half the time… for the last 5 years. And they never fixed this. Uninstalled.
I’m using gnome MPV for videos now. Really simple, but everything works.
For FLAC files, yes, Deadbeef.
Good old xmms1 with all the backed up old ass dependencies I saved years ago for mp3s. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
IMO, vlc is good for general purpose media playback like videos or in my case, I use streamlink which can use vlc as its player to watch twitch stream, but it’s not good for dedicated music player if you are serious about it…which we are 
android, there’s obviously foobar, but I found one called phonograph that looks REALLY sick. I wouldn’t recommend the google play player because I had problems with just listing stuff properly.
Oh well for Android I use VLC. 
But someone recommended me UAPP – apparently it could make my files sound better even if I don’t use an external USB DAC right now.
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It depends on the phone tbh. I like all the features but at times I do think there is a noticeable quality increase
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Streaming: qobuz, amazon music
IOS: neutron
Android: UAPP (thanks M0N, it’s been great!)
Desktop: jriver media center, foobar
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Why is that? That it sounds better that is.
It might provide a more direct path to your dac and bypass Android audio (beneficial if you have an external dac), and also is just a great player. Not exactly too sure about the science of it
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Not if I’m sending stuff thru bluetooth tho right?