Cog vs bonob

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Cog		bonob
	Project
17	Mentions	10
594	Stars	190
1.0%	Growth	-
8.5	Activity	6.7
3 months ago	Latest Commit	28 days ago
C	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Cog

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-19.

Music app all my playlists from 20 years has been jumbled up
2 projects | /r/MacOSBeta | 19 Mar 2023

https://cog.losno.co (open source, really capable but bare bones UI)
FLAC Audio Library
1 project | /r/macapps | 6 Mar 2023

Cog is great too. https://cog.losno.co/
Discussion Thread
2 projects | /r/neoliberal | 26 Jan 2023
Swinsian 3.0?
1 project | /r/musichoarder | 23 Jan 2023

Cog is also another delicious option.
Best Music Player For Flac files?
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 28 Dec 2022

Straightforward, highly developed Cog will be more than plenty for a top-notch audio player. It can be found here.
From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2022
Is there any music player, macOS or iOS, that, when you search for something and play it, it continues playing from the album it's from [versus playing from the search results]
3 projects | /r/musichoarder | 8 Nov 2022
Ask HN: Is there a proper Music.app alternative on macOS?
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2022

I use Cog for music and avoid Music.app
https://cog.losno.co
Hate macOS Monterey & need assistance
1 project | /r/applehelp | 29 Sep 2022

Try COG.
Pairing apple silicon with the FiiO FH9
2 projects | /r/headphones | 25 Sep 2022

bonob

Posts with mentions or reviews of bonob. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

[Navidrome] Au revoir subsonique! Nous avons enfin le soutien de Sonos! Je suis tellement heureux :)
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 26 Apr 2023
Need help using Bonob to connect to my Sonos speaker on Synology docker
1 project | /r/navidrome | 2 Mar 2023

The github page has a short guide and step by steps for Synology. The last couple of posts on this thread may also be of help.
Does bonob with Navidrome support bookmarks and audiobooks via Sonos?
1 project | /r/navidrome | 16 Jan 2023

I just setup Navidrome and bonob (https://github.com/simojenki/bonob) on my Synology. Everything is working really well! I can access all the albums from Sonos app on Android. What I can’t figure out is how to “resume” different albums. Is bonob missing audiobook and bookmark integration?
Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Dec 2022
Best music server other than Airsonic?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Dec 2022
Audio streaming to Sonos (speakers)
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 23 Nov 2022

I have not tried it as I do no have a Sonos speaker (yet), but it is on my list of things to try in the future. I have seen several posts about https://github.com/simojenki/bonob and integrating it with Gonic or Navidrome to stream music to Sonos speakers. Seems like ppl have had good success with it and like it.
From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2022

Any Subsonic music server works well with this: https://github.com/simojenki/bonob
I am in need of some advice.
1 project | /r/musichoarder | 4 Mar 2022

Dsub and substreamer can stream to Google cast devices. For Sonos, you might need a bridge like https://github.com/simojenki/bonob
UPnP/dlna server
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jan 2022

Ya'll thanks everyone who commented. I finally found a setup that works very well for me. Navidrome + Bonob. Not too heavy, just works, blazing fast playback
Goodbye Subsonic! We have finally Sonos support! I'm so happy :)
1 project | /r/navidrome | 21 May 2021

Developer simojenki (https://github.com/simojenki/bonob) has developed something great. We can now finally link Navidrome with Sonos. This is something I, and probably many users, have wanted for a long time.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cog and bonob you can also consider the following projects:

deadbeef - DeaDBeeF Player

ampache-sonos - Enables the configuration of an ampache instance as a SONOS music service

iina - The modern video player for macOS with additional features and bug fixes.

Gerbera - UPnP Media Server for 2024: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺

BandcampPlayer - A simplified music player to enjoy and discover new music on Bandcamp. This player was created to simplify music discovery and listen to Bandcamp's recommended and latest tracks as a playlist.

selfhosted-music-overview - A table listing software network services which can be hosted on your own servers

civitai - A repository of models, textual inversions, and more

Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic

deadbeef - DeaDBeeF Player [Moved to: https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef]

jellyfin-docs - Documentation for Jellyfin

iina - The modern video player for macOS with additional features and bug fixes. [Moved to: https://github.com/CarterLi/iina]

RompR - Web client for Mopidy and MPD