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FlaYer
Native macOS music player for audiophiles, with built-in headphone EQ.
Why FlaYer
Every headphone has its own signature. Without correction, even a high-res file reaches your ears through an unintended filter. FlaYer fixes the chain, then gets out of the way.
What FlaYer does
- Full lossless support (FLAC, DSD, ALAC, APE, WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, M4A), exclusive bit-perfect output, gapless playback, ReplayGain
- 10-band parametric EQ with 100+ ready-to-use headphone presets
- Fast library: async scanning, FSEvents watching, FTS5 search, playlists, optional MusicBrainz and LRCLib lyrics enrichment
- WidgetKit widgets, Touch Bar, Apple Watch companion, bilingual FR / EN
Headphone profiles — oratory1990
Presets are built from the measurements published by oratory1990, an audio engineer widely trusted in the Head-Fi community for the precision of his GRAS-rig measurements. Every supported headphone was measured on the bench, compared to the Harman target (the frequency response most listeners perceive as natural), and translated into 10 EQ bands that FlaYer applies for you. AKG, Beyerdynamic, Focal, HiFiMan, Sennheiser, Sony and more — a couple of clicks gets you back to the neutral signature the designer intended, no guessing.
SwiftUI glass-morphism interface, native macOS 14+, free and open-source under the PolyForm Noncommercial license.
The DMG is ad-hoc signed: on first launch, right-click the app → Open to create the Gatekeeper exception. Source code is public on GitHub — contributions welcome.
