Cog vs dopamine

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Cog		dopamine
	Project
17	Mentions	8
594	Stars	1,322
1.0%	Growth	-
8.5	Activity	9.5
3 months ago	Latest Commit	15 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

dopamine

Posts with mentions or reviews of dopamine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

Recommendation of Windows software [A long read]
9 projects | /r/windows | 8 Mar 2023

I would include Dopamine for mp3 playback. https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine
Looking for a Windows Media Player alternative for 2023 that uses few resources
3 projects | /r/software | 12 Feb 2023

I quite like [Dopamine 3](https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine). Simple, nice UI, open-source.
Best Music Player For Flac files?
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 28 Dec 2022

Dopamine
Dolphin Explorer - Can window controls be displayed on the toolbar instead of in the title bar?
3 projects | /r/kde | 12 Dec 2022

Groove Music/the new Media Player app and also Dopamine music player on Windows
From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2022

Try Dopamine on Windows. It's very simple and light https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine
Just found out about Dopamine and was setting it up. This is nice to see! Hopefully they eventually find a way to support Zune sync.
1 project | /r/Zune | 19 Aug 2022
Winamp 5.9 RC1 has been released
2 projects | /r/Windows10 | 29 Jul 2022

Dopamine has remained my favorite since I first found out about it in its early beta days. It has a v3 in preview as well that adds support for Linux and macOS, though I do not use that version myself yet.
ninja linux
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 24 Apr 2022

i'd suggest using https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine instead of strawberry, btw. much nicer music player (though useless if you aren't using local files)

What are some alternatives?

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

deadbeef - DeaDBeeF Player

extraterm - The swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators

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

chrlauncher - Small and very fast portable launcher and updater for Chromium.

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.

TablacusExplorer - A tabbed file manager with Add-on support

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

Rise-Media-Player - One media player for everything you own or stream; whether it's music or videos, online or offline Rise Media Player does it all. And it's beautiful and native with the latest version of WinUI.

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

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

Cider - A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀

bonob - sonos SMAPI implementation allowing integrating different music sources with sonos.