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Colibri 1.9.0

Colibri is a native hi-res audiophile lossless audio & music player for your Mac. A native Mac audio and music player that supports crystal-clear bit-perfect gapless playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a clean and intuitive user experience – it only ‘does what it says on the can'. Colibri 1.8.1 Changelog. Album art support has been extended. All supported audio files with proper ID3 tags and/or iTunes metadata will have their album artwork shown; including, but not limited to: ALAC, AAC, M4A and MP3 files; Colibri has a brand-new CUE sheet reading engine. IMPORTANT NOTE: macOS 10.15 terminates the operability of some NI legacy hardware. This includes MASCHINE MK1, MASCHINE MIKRO MK1, TRAKTOR AUDIO 2 / 4 / 8 DJ, TRAKTOR AUDIO 2 MK1 and TRAKTOR S4 / X1 MK1. The workaround for macOS 10.12 - 10.14 (as described in this article) does not work on macOS 10.15. If you still want to use these legacy.

Native Lossless Audio for macOS – A refreshingly new addition to the audio player scene.

Colibri is a native macOS audio player built from scratch on BASS technology. Colibri supports cristal-clear bit-perfect playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a clean and intuitive user experience. Native Lossless Audio for macOS A refreshingly new addition to the audio player scene. Colibri is a native macOS audio player built from scratch on top of the award-winning BASS technology. Colibri supports cristal-clear bit-perfect playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a.

Colibri is a native macOS audio player built from scratch on top of the award-winning BASS technology, supports cristal-clear bit-perfect playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a clean and intuitive user experience.

Saves your battery – Colibri uses a barely noticable amount of computing power during the playback of your music. The application is built using state-of-the-art Swift 3 programming language, the BASS audio engine is bundled as machine code while the interface uses built-in components by Apple. This was done in order to achieve a tiny footprint and to be as native to macOS as humanly possible.

Plays your audio – Colibri is able to playback the most widely used range of file formats in terms of lossless audio: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE, TTA, DSD and WavPack – along with these popular lossy formats: Ogg Vorbis, MP1/MP2/MP3 and AAC/M4A – along with network streams/online radio! Additional format support might be considered if requested.

Handles CUE Sheets – Colibri reads, processes – and to some extent – sanitizes cue sheets. Malformed and disordered content is reprocessed during loading and should audio files written in the sheet be missing then Colibri makes a few educated guesses on the possible file name/extension. If the sheet does not contain artist, song title or album information then Colibri tries to extract the song info from the audio file header itself.

Supports gapless playback – Colibri is extensively designed from the ground-up to provide a true gapless listening experience – with or without using a Cue Sheet.

Picks up where you left off – Colibri saves your current playlist upon quitting and re-opens your songs when you start it up again, maintaining the song data between playback sessions, regardless of having them previously loaded from CUE sheets or single files. Apple's Sandbox protection is fully supported.

Avoids most problems – Colibri does its' best to avoid most problems before, during and after playback – however there are situations where error checking and guessing indexes won't suffice. Loading unsupported files show up as an error message in the status bar and files that have disappeared since loading are automatically removed and skipped upon being reached in the playlist.

Understands your language – Colibri is capable of rendering the song information as it was intended to be shown: of all the tried metadata it had no problem with displaying cyrillic or kanji/katakana/hiragana characters mixed with ASCII.

Respects your privacy – Colibri does not phone home, collect usage data or modify files in any way. The only data it remembers are your playlist and settings: the loop mode state, whether to show the menubar and which pieces of info text to display in the status bar – nothing else!

Displays album art – Colibri displays embedded cover art for FLAC files and ID3/iTunes artwork metadata for other files (mainly M4A / ALAC and MP3). When that yields not results then it looks in the folder where the current song resides for a cover art image.

Resides in your Menu Bar – Colibri can place an unobtrusively small icon in the Menu Bar for easy access and playlist control: you can either start/pause the playback, skip to the next track or go back to the previous one. It also displays the info and cover art image of the current song.

Integrates with Finder – Colibri conforms all of Apple's strict requirements – which means that it shows up in Finder as an option in 'Open With' when a supported file is selected. Which in turn also makes it an available as a suggested file association option.

Adjusts to your Display – Colibri's interface elements scale themselves nicely on every screen resolution and pixel density.

What's New:

Version 1.9
Thank you for using Colibri! This update features a completely new DSD playback implementation and fixes Automatic Sample Rate Swithing for most of the previously not working DACs and also improves stability. Happy listening!

ENHANCEMENTS

• BASS has been updated to 2.4.14
• DSD playback has been completely rewritten from scratch
• DSD PCM mode will automatically use highest supported sample rate
• Settings -> Output has revamped DSD and Sample Rate Switching sections
• Audio core has been further optimized for multi-threaded playback
• improved gapless playback compatibility with BASSZXTUNE
• further decreased memory usage when preloading next song
• device disconnect handling has been enhanced: reconnect your device and hit play! The default output is used as fallback should the device still be missing.

BUGS FIXED IN THIS UPDATE

• selected audio output should now properly be retained on restart
• Menu Bar Controller would not properly update song info on track changes
• pre-amp would not restore properly when switching profiles
• empty playlist when adding from Finder wouldn't work
• Automatic Sample Rate Switching wouldn't work properly with USB DACs
• DSD DoP / DoP AA modes would not work
• DSD sample rate would stay fixed at 88.2 kHz in PCM mode
• Pause wouldn't work during DSD playback
• Automatic Sample Rate Switching wouldn't work properly with Exclusive / Hog mode
• pressing Previous during DSD playback wouldn't work as expected
• playing a non-DSD file after a DSD file could cause Colibri to crash
• playing a non-DSD file after a DSD file with 0 dB enabled wouldn't restore the system volume
• attempting to play DST encoded DSD files would cause Colibri to crash (DST encoding is still unsupported!)
• preloaded DSD files would not properly raise the volume if requested
• DSD playback with pre-cache would always properly show the total time of the song
• preloaded channel wouldn't always properly set the internal mixer's sample rate
• DSD playback would sometimes disable the volume slider even without 0dB option being enabled
• pre-cache wouldn't work while Force Sample Rate is enabled
• pre-cache trigger wouldn't properly fire with very high resolution DSD files
• Colibri would sometimes crash on quitting
• importing SF2/SFZ MIDI SoundFont would cause a crash
• colibriTheme file association would not properly register with Finder
• fixed a crash regarding file loading and removal
• removing multiple files one by one could cause a crash

Screenshots

Hi everyone, thanks for checking in!

As most of you are aware, Colibri is currently undergoing a really heavy rewrite: a new, modern architecture was made to better accommodate the new features and upcoming operating systems while greatly increasing the stability. These are grandiose words, but in reality it all means that since starting Colibri I've learned constantly and am putting in my best effort to reflect on these past experiences and knowledge with this update.

At first I constantly updated the FAQ section to let people know that I am still working on it and I haven't abandoned the project. It is understandable as the latest update happened many months in the past. I'd like to take the time and emphasise it once more: Colibri is a labour of love, a passion project and is done by solely me in my free time – although I'm devoting it way more energy and time than some would consider healthy, I firmly believe that the end result will most certainly justify this. At the end of the day, I also use it on a day to day basis and it also bothers me that the update is taking this long.

Why is it taking this long? Apart from it being nearly as much work as writing a completely new version of Colibri I also did the mistake of biting off more than I can chew in a feasible amount of time. I did identify a handful of bugs related to the architecture and the way I wrote Colibri back in the day and instead of hacking around (and possibly introducing new bugs) I thought to have a clean slate with more future-proofing in mind. This, as a kind fellow pointed out, is also a 'siren's call' as more often than not it happens that one set of bugs are fixed and a new set is introduced instead. What can I do to prevent this? Doing my absolute best from start to finish and use all the tools available to me to ensure such scenario does not come to pass.

But enough with the words as writing this takes time away from developing the update, so without further ado, here are the status updates from oldest to newest, scroll to the bottom for the latest!

TL;DR: I'm still working on the update, see the latest status update below.

01/05/2020: it is a massive rewrite and needs lot of testing, adjustments and making sure that it will remain as compatible with your current settings as possible.

20/05/2020: still heavily working on it, have uncovered some additional sample rate switching issues, mostly affecting pre-load. Fixed a handful of bugs relating to Sandbox and Network Stream support. I still estimate a good few weeks as I would like to release an update that is stable. Currently, I'm at around 9,000 lines of code changes and counting.

04/06/2020: going strong with the rewrite, uncovered a latency issue with external DACs – have an experimental solution to it, just need to stabilize it. Also had to write a wrapper for CoreAudio.

25/06/2020: one major issue Colibri had with audio clicking on some DACs during song switching and pause is now fixed, the CoreAudio wrapper seems to eliminate the hickup frequency switching caused under a lot of circumstances.

05/07/2020: fixing smaller user-reported issues and doing a bit of an overhaul for the Settings view. I aim to release it as fast as possible but at the same time I'd also like to be sure that it was worth the wait, so please bear with me!

31/07/2020: I'm not on vacation and am actively working on the update. I've finally found why some of you experienced the inability of your Mac to sleep while Colibri is running, even if music isn't playing. I've ended up writing a tool to help test my theory and it might end up in the AppStore after a bit of polish. So yes, work is being made – your patience is much appreciated!

13/08/2020: Checking the reported crashes so far and making sure they do not come up after the new update – so far so good. Rest assured, I'm working on it as much as I can.

24/08/2020: Volume changes are now properly shown in the title bar – it supersedes the 'gray capsule-looking notification bar' that appears at the bottom of Colibri's window. Right now I'm putting on the finishing touches to some RAM-related new features – a fresh take on a somewhat usual and heavy-requested feature. I really hope you'll like it!

27/09/2020: Still working on the update, had a somewhat new idea regarding the feature I'm working on. I think I now also know why I haven't seen this implemented in a lot of players. Stay tuned, I'm not quitting any time soon!

Upcoming update – DSD / DAC / Sample Rate Switching fix

Hi there and thank you for reading!

Here is a short update on what's coming: small fixes, additions, enhancements and a very critical bugfix are what this new version will bring to the table.

Automatic Sample Rate Switching

It has been brought to my attention that Colibri does not do sample rate / frequency switching automatically as expected – mainly with external DAC devices. The Mac AppStore reviews were somewhat descriptive of the issue, but with no means to effectively reproduce the behavior there was little hope to pinpoint the actual cause of the issue. Recently I've received a highly detailed and descriptive scenario (thanks Katherine!) which helped me understand the nature of the problem – to which the solution is now complete.

CoreAudio is the layer provided by Apple to handle the audio hardware under macOS and it works flawlessly – for the most part, if you are using the audio framework provided by the system. As you could have guessed, this isn't the case with Colibri – we are using BASS as the audio engine, which in turn interfaces with CoreAudio to produce audio output. The issue here is that BASS under macOS has no way to determine what is the maximum accepted frequency of the currently selected audio output device – and this imposes a problem.

Having a mixed playlist of songs with different sample rates means that either:

1. you try and initialize the audio output with the maximum available frequency by trial and error (ouch!)
2. re-negotiate sample rates every time before the playback starts, if the sample rate of the upcoming song differs

Colibri does the second option as of the current build, which was the result of a complete rewrite of the playback/preload logic: frequency negotiation happens only when it needs to and all newly loaded songs are quickly analyzed for accurate sample rate information. The tests have been promising so far: opening Audio MIDI Setup clearly shows that Colibri is doing the sample rate switching automatically.

Currently what needs to be fixed are the way Colibri deals with Bluetooth headphones – some of what I've tried do not support anything greater than 44.1 kHz and this poses a problem: every time a higher resolution song is sent to them they simply revert back to 8 kHz and stay that way – which, again, isn't what I'd call ideal. There already are a few ways to deal with this – we'll see which one of them ends up being the most reliable.

[Ninja edit: since publishing this I've managed to extract accurate sample rate data from CoreAudio regarding wireless headphones as well, which now eliminates the 'stuck at 8 kHz problem']

Menu Bar Song Display

Due to popular request and again, some very detailed suggestion (thanks Jan!) Colibri will have its' Menu Bar icon beefed up a little: customizable song information display will be available in the next version, here's a sneak peek:

ZXTune

Another recently requested feature (thanks Vasyl!) was the addition of the BASSZXTUNE library, in order for Colibri to support a huge amount of chiptune tracker formats. Sadly, the library is as big as Colibri itself and while it is active, some delay can happen when the playback of a non-chiptune music is started – for this reason, ZXTune is present as a switchable option within Settings as the freedom of choice should be given to the user. This way, people who otherwise don't intend to listen to chiptune tracks can disable ZXTune to save resources.

Release Date

Fixes and improvements are coming along at a steady pace, which means that the update is likely to be out during September.

Hello and thanks for reading this!

There has been quite some time since the last update of Colibri and I've felt that I should put out a quick note on how things are progressing chugging along.

Currently I've got my hands full with the exam period over at the university I'm attending (Computer Science for those wondering) because of which little progress has been made since the previous release – most notably a few bugs have been fixed and as I'm using the preview build on a daily basis for extended periods of time it hopefully means that the next update will be more bulletproof.

The fixes, feature requests you have all sent me and the additions I've promised are all still part of the roadmap and in fact, the list has been growing longer ever since as I stumble upon things that need improvement or just realize that some other functionality would be beneficial for Colibri to have. Keeping it bloat free is still top-priority and one of the main reasons why new things are added at a slow pace.

It has been asked before – and lately even by folks from the music biz – whether I'm planning to extend Colibri's compatibility downwards so that people using earlier versions of macOS / OS X would be able to use Colibri. Then answer is yes, I'm game and am going to investigate what parts of Colibri need to be rewritten to achieve this.

I've since gotten hold of an AirPlay test device, so all those who are waiting for that to happen: it's still on the roadmap.

It comes up quite often lately so I'll say this again here: Colibri will remain DRM-free and I'm never adding limitations / in-app purchases or the likes to it, ever. The very same applies to the new trend of selling apps via subscription models – that is one feature that's kept off of the roadmap.

The 'Buy it once – free updates for a lifetime' tagline is here to stay, ladies and djentlemen.

Happy Listening!

A few minutes ago Apple has approved the latest version of Colibri, so it should be updating itself automatically through Mac AppStore if you have autoupdates enabled – if not, consider doing it via System Preferences – App Store. In many aspects, this update has been long time coming as the most frequently requested features in past few months have been BS2B support (read more about it here if interested) and a multi-band Equalizer, among other things.

Colibri has a modular infrastructure while BASS has its' own plugin ecosystem which translates to a pretty flexible set of options regarding the addition of extensions to the signal chain – so I thought integrating the BS2B library will be a breeze. It turned out there were quite a couple of things under the hood that needed to be reworked in order for the BS2B module to start doing its' thing – not to mention shaping it in such a way that it would play nicely with Colibri's memory conserving policies.

Having read through many forum posts it was clear to me that people who use BS2B on a daily basis are not quite satisfied with the solutions that are provided by other players, the main complaint being that there simply isn't a one size fits all setting – different songs need different values, not to mention the inability to store different default values to different output devices. That's the main reason why I pushed the release from the end of February to today: Colibri as of now is able to handle BS2B profiles on a per song basis and it is also able to set different default BS2B profiles to audio output devices.

The same thing happened with the Equalizer – having taken extra steps in BS2B support meant that I couldn't just leave the Equalizer with one global option, thus the per song profile switching was born for this feature as well. It would have been extra awesome to use sliders in the Right/Control-click menu of the song, but sadly macOS currently does not support stuffing sliders into the menu – no matter how many tricks I've pulled to make it happen.

Regarding Finder / External Sources loading, I've implemented the missing features that were requested not so long ago in AppStore reviews, namely the option of loading all files from a selected directory when opening only one song (as some audio players did so in the past) – plays nicely with the other two options of providing a fresh start: clearing the playlist on exit or on song load. It is now also possible to switch between instant playback or silent enqueue on song load.

Album art loading has been extended, more file types are analyzed and should that bring no visible results, then Colibri tries to display the first readable image in the songs' directory. Also, try double clicking on the album art in the main window!

Status bar modifications include the removal of time elapsed – as it is now positioned at the title bar of the main window, with multiple display options to choose from. Taking its' space is the Number of songs and total time statistical info, which is a new option available from Settings – Display.

The Behavior section got a bit of a rehash too in the form of ReplayGain support, configurable Pre-cache trigger placement and RAM Audio Cache settings with information popover help where necessary.

Last but not least, the Output section now has an option for changing the DSD Data Sending method – it is highly advisable to leave it on ‘Auto' if you do not have issues with how Colibri talks to your DAC.

The changelog has more details on the bugfixes and the Frequently Asked Questions section has been updated to reflect the changes as well!

Jixipix rainy daze 1 22 commentary. I did look into crafting a smarter playlist than the current one we have as I've promised in the previous blog post – but all of the approaches I've took were pretty much unusable as dynamic column sizing is something the does not play well with exotic song titles. I've still got a few ideas I will be trying out, so a smarter playlist is still under development and – just as in the case of AirPlay – it is coming at a later point in time.

That's it for now, take care and happy listening!

UPDATE: 1.8.6 contains an urgent bugfix, below you can read what is new in 1.8.5

As of a few moments ago Colibri has been updated to version 1.8.5 with the update prompts appearing shortly for everyone through the Mac App Store application if automatic updates are disabled on your system as part of the somewhat steadier (and albeit slower) release cycle that I've adopted recently – this concludes the Winter Update.

This patch has been long coming in a sense that a few critical (and nasty) bugs were finally fixed and the frequently requested MOD/MIDI support has been implemented – you can read the full changelog here.

At the end of the previous post I've mentioned a customization option that I haven't seen in any other player so far on macOS and that turned out to be the per song adjustment of sample mixing in the case of MOD music files, whereas in the case of MIDI files it is the per song SoundFont attachment – all with realtime bank switching and quasi uninterrupted playback as the playhead maintains the current position within the song.

Another small yet useful addition is the ability to control Colibri from the Dock – right/alt-click on its' icon and you will be treated to a slightly improved menu that allows basic control of the playback function, along with showing the currently playing song's title, artist and album:

Just after submitting the finalized update to Apple for review I've got an email regarding a crash that happened just as Colibri would start up: it turned out to be one of those bugs that I had been chasing around for a while now but never managed to find the correct environment to reproduce it. I've instantly pulled back the update to address the issue which in the end translates to less Sandbox Permission asking dialog boxes popping up when you add new songs.

For those of you trusting Colibri by allowing top level access to your music collection, this issue shouldn't really have come up as it affected the negotiation part of handling different permission bookmarks for folders and songs simultaneously.

Once again, thank you for your continued support, it truly means a lot! The great majority of feature requests via emails/reviews/comments I've received so far have been added to the roadmap and will be implemented in the future.

What's high on the TO-DO list? Currently, the equalizer and a better playlist so please look forward to those in the near future.

That's it for now, take care and happy listening!

At first I constantly updated the FAQ section to let people know that I am still working on it and I haven't abandoned the project. It is understandable as the latest update happened many months in the past. I'd like to take the time and emphasise it once more: Colibri is a labour of love, a passion project and is done by solely me in my free time – although I'm devoting it way more energy and time than some would consider healthy, I firmly believe that the end result will most certainly justify this. At the end of the day, I also use it on a day to day basis and it also bothers me that the update is taking this long.

Why is it taking this long? Apart from it being nearly as much work as writing a completely new version of Colibri I also did the mistake of biting off more than I can chew in a feasible amount of time. I did identify a handful of bugs related to the architecture and the way I wrote Colibri back in the day and instead of hacking around (and possibly introducing new bugs) I thought to have a clean slate with more future-proofing in mind. This, as a kind fellow pointed out, is also a 'siren's call' as more often than not it happens that one set of bugs are fixed and a new set is introduced instead. What can I do to prevent this? Doing my absolute best from start to finish and use all the tools available to me to ensure such scenario does not come to pass.

But enough with the words as writing this takes time away from developing the update, so without further ado, here are the status updates from oldest to newest, scroll to the bottom for the latest!

TL;DR: I'm still working on the update, see the latest status update below.

01/05/2020: it is a massive rewrite and needs lot of testing, adjustments and making sure that it will remain as compatible with your current settings as possible.

20/05/2020: still heavily working on it, have uncovered some additional sample rate switching issues, mostly affecting pre-load. Fixed a handful of bugs relating to Sandbox and Network Stream support. I still estimate a good few weeks as I would like to release an update that is stable. Currently, I'm at around 9,000 lines of code changes and counting.

04/06/2020: going strong with the rewrite, uncovered a latency issue with external DACs – have an experimental solution to it, just need to stabilize it. Also had to write a wrapper for CoreAudio.

25/06/2020: one major issue Colibri had with audio clicking on some DACs during song switching and pause is now fixed, the CoreAudio wrapper seems to eliminate the hickup frequency switching caused under a lot of circumstances.

05/07/2020: fixing smaller user-reported issues and doing a bit of an overhaul for the Settings view. I aim to release it as fast as possible but at the same time I'd also like to be sure that it was worth the wait, so please bear with me!

31/07/2020: I'm not on vacation and am actively working on the update. I've finally found why some of you experienced the inability of your Mac to sleep while Colibri is running, even if music isn't playing. I've ended up writing a tool to help test my theory and it might end up in the AppStore after a bit of polish. So yes, work is being made – your patience is much appreciated!

13/08/2020: Checking the reported crashes so far and making sure they do not come up after the new update – so far so good. Rest assured, I'm working on it as much as I can.

24/08/2020: Volume changes are now properly shown in the title bar – it supersedes the 'gray capsule-looking notification bar' that appears at the bottom of Colibri's window. Right now I'm putting on the finishing touches to some RAM-related new features – a fresh take on a somewhat usual and heavy-requested feature. I really hope you'll like it!

27/09/2020: Still working on the update, had a somewhat new idea regarding the feature I'm working on. I think I now also know why I haven't seen this implemented in a lot of players. Stay tuned, I'm not quitting any time soon!

Upcoming update – DSD / DAC / Sample Rate Switching fix

Hi there and thank you for reading!

Here is a short update on what's coming: small fixes, additions, enhancements and a very critical bugfix are what this new version will bring to the table.

Automatic Sample Rate Switching

It has been brought to my attention that Colibri does not do sample rate / frequency switching automatically as expected – mainly with external DAC devices. The Mac AppStore reviews were somewhat descriptive of the issue, but with no means to effectively reproduce the behavior there was little hope to pinpoint the actual cause of the issue. Recently I've received a highly detailed and descriptive scenario (thanks Katherine!) which helped me understand the nature of the problem – to which the solution is now complete.

CoreAudio is the layer provided by Apple to handle the audio hardware under macOS and it works flawlessly – for the most part, if you are using the audio framework provided by the system. As you could have guessed, this isn't the case with Colibri – we are using BASS as the audio engine, which in turn interfaces with CoreAudio to produce audio output. The issue here is that BASS under macOS has no way to determine what is the maximum accepted frequency of the currently selected audio output device – and this imposes a problem.

Having a mixed playlist of songs with different sample rates means that either:

1. you try and initialize the audio output with the maximum available frequency by trial and error (ouch!)
2. re-negotiate sample rates every time before the playback starts, if the sample rate of the upcoming song differs

Colibri does the second option as of the current build, which was the result of a complete rewrite of the playback/preload logic: frequency negotiation happens only when it needs to and all newly loaded songs are quickly analyzed for accurate sample rate information. The tests have been promising so far: opening Audio MIDI Setup clearly shows that Colibri is doing the sample rate switching automatically.

Currently what needs to be fixed are the way Colibri deals with Bluetooth headphones – some of what I've tried do not support anything greater than 44.1 kHz and this poses a problem: every time a higher resolution song is sent to them they simply revert back to 8 kHz and stay that way – which, again, isn't what I'd call ideal. There already are a few ways to deal with this – we'll see which one of them ends up being the most reliable.

[Ninja edit: since publishing this I've managed to extract accurate sample rate data from CoreAudio regarding wireless headphones as well, which now eliminates the 'stuck at 8 kHz problem']

Menu Bar Song Display

Due to popular request and again, some very detailed suggestion (thanks Jan!) Colibri will have its' Menu Bar icon beefed up a little: customizable song information display will be available in the next version, here's a sneak peek:

ZXTune

Another recently requested feature (thanks Vasyl!) was the addition of the BASSZXTUNE library, in order for Colibri to support a huge amount of chiptune tracker formats. Sadly, the library is as big as Colibri itself and while it is active, some delay can happen when the playback of a non-chiptune music is started – for this reason, ZXTune is present as a switchable option within Settings as the freedom of choice should be given to the user. This way, people who otherwise don't intend to listen to chiptune tracks can disable ZXTune to save resources.

Release Date

Fixes and improvements are coming along at a steady pace, which means that the update is likely to be out during September.

Hello and thanks for reading this!

There has been quite some time since the last update of Colibri and I've felt that I should put out a quick note on how things are progressing chugging along.

Currently I've got my hands full with the exam period over at the university I'm attending (Computer Science for those wondering) because of which little progress has been made since the previous release – most notably a few bugs have been fixed and as I'm using the preview build on a daily basis for extended periods of time it hopefully means that the next update will be more bulletproof.

The fixes, feature requests you have all sent me and the additions I've promised are all still part of the roadmap and in fact, the list has been growing longer ever since as I stumble upon things that need improvement or just realize that some other functionality would be beneficial for Colibri to have. Keeping it bloat free is still top-priority and one of the main reasons why new things are added at a slow pace.

It has been asked before – and lately even by folks from the music biz – whether I'm planning to extend Colibri's compatibility downwards so that people using earlier versions of macOS / OS X would be able to use Colibri. Then answer is yes, I'm game and am going to investigate what parts of Colibri need to be rewritten to achieve this.

I've since gotten hold of an AirPlay test device, so all those who are waiting for that to happen: it's still on the roadmap.

It comes up quite often lately so I'll say this again here: Colibri will remain DRM-free and I'm never adding limitations / in-app purchases or the likes to it, ever. The very same applies to the new trend of selling apps via subscription models – that is one feature that's kept off of the roadmap.

The 'Buy it once – free updates for a lifetime' tagline is here to stay, ladies and djentlemen.

Happy Listening!

A few minutes ago Apple has approved the latest version of Colibri, so it should be updating itself automatically through Mac AppStore if you have autoupdates enabled – if not, consider doing it via System Preferences – App Store. In many aspects, this update has been long time coming as the most frequently requested features in past few months have been BS2B support (read more about it here if interested) and a multi-band Equalizer, among other things.

Colibri has a modular infrastructure while BASS has its' own plugin ecosystem which translates to a pretty flexible set of options regarding the addition of extensions to the signal chain – so I thought integrating the BS2B library will be a breeze. It turned out there were quite a couple of things under the hood that needed to be reworked in order for the BS2B module to start doing its' thing – not to mention shaping it in such a way that it would play nicely with Colibri's memory conserving policies.

Having read through many forum posts it was clear to me that people who use BS2B on a daily basis are not quite satisfied with the solutions that are provided by other players, the main complaint being that there simply isn't a one size fits all setting – different songs need different values, not to mention the inability to store different default values to different output devices. That's the main reason why I pushed the release from the end of February to today: Colibri as of now is able to handle BS2B profiles on a per song basis and it is also able to set different default BS2B profiles to audio output devices.

The same thing happened with the Equalizer – having taken extra steps in BS2B support meant that I couldn't just leave the Equalizer with one global option, thus the per song profile switching was born for this feature as well. It would have been extra awesome to use sliders in the Right/Control-click menu of the song, but sadly macOS currently does not support stuffing sliders into the menu – no matter how many tricks I've pulled to make it happen.

Regarding Finder / External Sources loading, I've implemented the missing features that were requested not so long ago in AppStore reviews, namely the option of loading all files from a selected directory when opening only one song (as some audio players did so in the past) – plays nicely with the other two options of providing a fresh start: clearing the playlist on exit or on song load. It is now also possible to switch between instant playback or silent enqueue on song load.

Album art loading has been extended, more file types are analyzed and should that bring no visible results, then Colibri tries to display the first readable image in the songs' directory. Also, try double clicking on the album art in the main window!

Status bar modifications include the removal of time elapsed – as it is now positioned at the title bar of the main window, with multiple display options to choose from. Taking its' space is the Number of songs and total time statistical info, which is a new option available from Settings – Display.

The Behavior section got a bit of a rehash too in the form of ReplayGain support, configurable Pre-cache trigger placement and RAM Audio Cache settings with information popover help where necessary.

Last but not least, the Output section now has an option for changing the DSD Data Sending method – it is highly advisable to leave it on ‘Auto' if you do not have issues with how Colibri talks to your DAC.

The changelog has more details on the bugfixes and the Frequently Asked Questions section has been updated to reflect the changes as well!

Jixipix rainy daze 1 22 commentary. I did look into crafting a smarter playlist than the current one we have as I've promised in the previous blog post – but all of the approaches I've took were pretty much unusable as dynamic column sizing is something the does not play well with exotic song titles. I've still got a few ideas I will be trying out, so a smarter playlist is still under development and – just as in the case of AirPlay – it is coming at a later point in time.

That's it for now, take care and happy listening!

UPDATE: 1.8.6 contains an urgent bugfix, below you can read what is new in 1.8.5

As of a few moments ago Colibri has been updated to version 1.8.5 with the update prompts appearing shortly for everyone through the Mac App Store application if automatic updates are disabled on your system as part of the somewhat steadier (and albeit slower) release cycle that I've adopted recently – this concludes the Winter Update.

This patch has been long coming in a sense that a few critical (and nasty) bugs were finally fixed and the frequently requested MOD/MIDI support has been implemented – you can read the full changelog here.

At the end of the previous post I've mentioned a customization option that I haven't seen in any other player so far on macOS and that turned out to be the per song adjustment of sample mixing in the case of MOD music files, whereas in the case of MIDI files it is the per song SoundFont attachment – all with realtime bank switching and quasi uninterrupted playback as the playhead maintains the current position within the song.

Another small yet useful addition is the ability to control Colibri from the Dock – right/alt-click on its' icon and you will be treated to a slightly improved menu that allows basic control of the playback function, along with showing the currently playing song's title, artist and album:

Just after submitting the finalized update to Apple for review I've got an email regarding a crash that happened just as Colibri would start up: it turned out to be one of those bugs that I had been chasing around for a while now but never managed to find the correct environment to reproduce it. I've instantly pulled back the update to address the issue which in the end translates to less Sandbox Permission asking dialog boxes popping up when you add new songs.

For those of you trusting Colibri by allowing top level access to your music collection, this issue shouldn't really have come up as it affected the negotiation part of handling different permission bookmarks for folders and songs simultaneously.

Once again, thank you for your continued support, it truly means a lot! The great majority of feature requests via emails/reviews/comments I've received so far have been added to the roadmap and will be implemented in the future.

What's high on the TO-DO list? Currently, the equalizer and a better playlist so please look forward to those in the near future.

That's it for now, take care and happy listening!

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Hello and welcome to the first of hopefully many posts about my misadventures in developing (and bug fixing) Colibri – hope you enjoy your stay!

Some time ago I've made the decision to switch to a slower release cycle in order to have a bit more time to polish new features and enhancements before they are released in the form of an update and also to not annoy my users with constant updates as I've heard that most people find frequent updates inconvenient.

Doing a quick search in the Mac AppStore lead me to believe that the current selection of MIDI players is scarce at best – which brings us to the main element of the upcoming update: as the BASS engine has native support for both MOD and MIDI music (via plugin) it was a no-brainer to teach our bird how to chirp glorious video game music and Nokia ringtones aka MOD/MIDI music.

Having entangled myself in a series of doubts regarding the legality of bundling MIDI SoundFonts with Colibri I've come to the conclusion that the best way to avoid angering the reviewers at Apple (and copyright holders of said soundfonts in general) is to ship the next update with a free, publicly available soundfont as I'm sure most of you would like to try your MIDI files right away – user supplied SoundFonts are supported and are strongly encouraged!

There's also a neat new feature currently entering the finalization phase that introduces a new customization convenience option for playing back MIDI files that I personally haven't seen before in any other player.

That's about it for now, happy listening!

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