Ableton Live is a cross platform professional DAW for both Mac OS and Windows. It comes with a huge library of stock sounds and support for both VST and AU plug-ins. The workflow is fast and fluid, allowing you to quickly come up with song ideas in Session View, then bring them over into Arrangement View to complete your track. Much more in depth information can be found at www.ableton.com
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Category: Music
Paid
Usability: There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
Category: Music
Free With In-App Purchase
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
The New York Times calls Eckhart Tolle “the most popular spiritual author in the US.”
We call him one of our most loyal listeners.
“I very much enjoy listening to Calm Radio. It’s my favourite station,” says the best-selling author of The Power of Now.
~ Featured - Best New Update ~ Apple 2019”
~ “A must-have! A huge array of 400 HD channels, great playlists, and most customizable ambient sounds.” Jeff Rose
~ “The best music app ever! Whatever the mood, I can find it on this app. Great Stuff…
Category: Music
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Cog is a free and open-source media player for Mac OS. Currently it supports the following formats: Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, Flac, Musepack, Monkeys Audio, Shorten, Wavpack, AAC, Apple Lossless and more. With a simple and intuitive design, Cog is an essential app for users that appreciate a clutter-free and simplistic interface to their music.
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
"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."
Plays FLAC, DSD (DSF or DFF via DoP), and other hi-res formats without needing to reset Audio/MIDI settings. Does not provide any library management: just open the Finder folder from within the app to start playback or add to playlist.
Category: Music
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
What is Deezer?
Deezer is a music streaming service that lets you listen to your music wherever and whenever you want. Explore over 35 million tracks on your computer, tablet, or mobile. Keep all your music in one place, and take your entire library with you everywhere.
Your own soundtrack.
Amplify your life with the right tracks, right now. Create playlists for every occasion, import your favourite MP3s, and follow the artists you love. Hear every detail with…
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Instantly play sound bites, audio effects, and music clips with your keyboard or mouse. Trigger audio on-demand or play clips in sequence in predefined lists. However you need to play sounds, Farrago is at your fingertips.
Take your podcast to the next level with sound effects, musical accompaniment, pre-recorded segments, and more.
Arrange clips in specific sequences in List mode to accompany stage shows and other live performances. Help tell a story through audio.
Spice…
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
With Fission's streamlined audio editing, you can quickly copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files. Fission also works with compressed MP3 and AAC formats to edit without the quality loss caused by other editors. Get perfect quality audio when editing natively in the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV formats.
• Quick Editing - No re-encoding or format switching means that Fission never causes quality loss
• Quick Splits - Manually insert split points wherever you like, then save…
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
The following is from the website.
Batch remove DRM from M4P, AA with Audio Recording technology, keeps ID tags, Fast and CD quality.
Category: Social Networking
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
With JustBlog you can easily and quickly publish posts to one or several Wordpress blogs.
JustBlog uses the XML-RPC interface that is enabled by default since WordPress 3.5.JustBlog is very simple and only supports plain text and HTML tags. Pictures and other special characters are not supported. Existing posts can not be edited with JustBlog. JustBlog is only for publish quick new posts to your blog.
If you have a problem or a suggestion for improvement, then mail me at…
Category: Music
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
LilyPond is a cross-platform editor that allows musicians to write sheet music through a textual interface. Through its robust programming language, LilyPond can program anything from a simple chord and melody chart to your next symphony. Its certainly worth a look if you're interested in a new way to experience the creative process.
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Logic Pro X is the most advanced version of Logic ever. Sophisticated tools for professional songwriting, editing, and mixing are built around a modern interface that’s designed to get creative results quickly and also deliver more power whenever it’s needed. Logic Pro X includes a massive collection of instruments, effects, and loops, providing a complete toolkit to create amazing-sounding music.
Powerful Interface.
• Consolidate and control multiple tracks or create rich,…
Category: Social Networking
Paid
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
Mastonaut is a Mastodon client for Mac.
Mastodon is a distributed social network of over 2 million users and hundreds of servers catering to the most varied set of interests and topics. Mastonaut is an easy-to-use and beautiful window into this world. Browse, follow, interact, and contribute to this amazing community from the comfort of your Mac.
As a lovingly-crafted app from a Mastodon user to other Mastodon users, Mastonaut is made to integrate with macOS in the finest aspects…
Category: Social Networking
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Made for big screens and close connections. Get access to free* texting, and high-quality voice and video chat built specifically for desktop.
MADE FOR DESKTOP, MADE FOR YOU
Type even faster, multi-task while video chatting so you never miss a moment and stay connected with desktop notifications.
SPEND QUALITY TIME IN HIGH QUALITY
Host one-on-one meetings or bring the whole group together with free*, high-quality voice and video chat features.
GET THE GROUP…
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
Meta is a smart music tag editor made for macOS, that streamlines the editing of audio metadata. It allows you to write metadata to any number of audio tracks, customize metadata formats, and organize files consistently. By keeping metadata updated, the app makes your music collection easy to manage. For DJs, musicians, podcasters, and all music fans.
Meta is a fantastic app that goes beyond just editing metadata. One of its standout features is the ability to organize folders based…
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. Musicians, DJs, podcasters, and audio-enthusiasts use it for many different aspects of handling audio files.
It supports batch tag-editing for multiple files at once, covering many audio formats from MP3, over MP4, and M4V (yes, that's video!) to FLAC, OGG, OPUS, AIF, DSF, MPC, and WAV.
Furthermore, it supports online database lookups from Discogs and MusicBrainz, allowing to gather proper tags and…
Category: Music
Free With In-App Purchase
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Featured on MacStories, 9to5Mac, iOS Today, AppleInsider, The Sweet Setup & more!
MusicHarbor helps you stay on top of new music releases, music videos, events, and news from all your favorite artists and record labels.
"If you care about new music releases and staying on top of your favorite artists, you need MusicHarbor." – MacStories
"This is a great app for folks who are trying to find new music from their favorite artists." – iOS Today, TWiT
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Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is totally inaccessible.
Musictube is a YouTube music player. With it you can listen to millions of songs on YouTube in a convenient way, much like using a traditional player. Musictube plays full albums or even full discographies integrating artist pictures, album covers and lyrics in a simple and stylish user interface.
Besides listening to plain studio recordings, you can switch to "live mode" to listen to live performances or to "cover mode" to discover surprising new versions.
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Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Piezo makes it a snap to record audio on your Mac. With just a few clicks, you can record audio from any application, or from audio input devices like microphones. Piezo requires almost no configuration, and it's a blast to use!
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Pro Audio Converter is an application for converting between a variety of audio file formats. It is multi-threaded and will batch convert multiple files at once to multiple formats at once. It supports reading and writing metadata and can create custom output file paths based on the metadata. It can also edit the metadata of existing audio files without the need to re-encode, functioning as a basic tag editor. Pro Audio Converter also gives you the option to add your converted files to…
Category: Music
Free
Usability: Some parts of the app are accessible with VoiceOver, but not enough to make it usable.
From the Mac App Store:
“Like Google Translate for music” - ScoreCloud instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! It's ideal for musicians, students, teachers, choirs and bands as well as composers and arrangers. - Instant Score from MIDI or Audio - Arrange and Edit your Score - Print, Export and Share It’s never been easier to create and arrange music. Just connect your MIDI keyboard or plug in a microphone to ScoreCloud Studio’s advanced monophonic audio…
Category: Music
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Shazam is about to teach your Mac a few new tricks.
Download Shazam, and bring the magic home. The app you’ve come to rely on as your go-to music expert has been given a major upgrade for your Mac. Catch the music and TV playing around you without ever digging a phone out of your pocket. Go nuts, match it all.
Shazam runs quietly behind the scenes, but springs to life when it finds a song you should know about, creating a playlist as it goes. You can now effortlessly find it,…
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Speed-Up is an ITunes plugin that provides variable-speed playback and for audio files, customizable hotkeys for speed and fast-forward/rewind, and presets. Speed-Up does not support Airplay or DRM content such as Audible books or Apple Music.
Category: Music
Free
Usability: Some parts of the app are accessible with VoiceOver, but not enough to make it usable.
Spotify is a subscription based digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.. You can use it freely if you are willing to hear adds in between songs.
Category: Music
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, but the interface could be easier to navigate and use.
Super MP3 Converter can convert almost all videos/audios like MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, FLAC, WAV, M4A, and WMA, to MP3, AAC, AIFF, ALAC, WAV, and M4A with lightening speed and zero quality loss. Also, it enables you to extract audio files from most popular videos like MP4, MOV, MKV, M4V, AVI and more. The converted audio files can be played well on iPhone 6/6 plus/5/5s/4s, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, iPad mini, iPad 4, iPod touch, iPod Nano, and other player devices. Key Features 1.…
Category: Social Networking
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Trillian for Mac is a free messenger that makes it easy to chat with your friends no matter where they are. Use Trillian to connect to Facebook, Twitter, GTalk, AIM, Yahoo, and much more. As an added bonus, Trillian for Mac syncs beautifully with Trillian for iPhone when you're on the go!