ABX on OSX, Software to perform ABX tests on a Mac (no FB2K) Options

[Nessuno]

Many people here on HA running OSX are daily advised to perform ABX tests in all those fast spreading threads about XLD, AAC etc...
Well: apart from running FB2K on WINE/Crossover or on a virtual machine, AFAIK the sad truth is that there are very few easy ways to do it.

I use this very simple and effective application: ABXer by Empty Music. Unfortunately their site has been down for a long while, and the home page says "Website Coming Soon! Stay Tuned". Let's hope for the best.

There is also an ABXTester application on the App Store. I haven't tried myself, but from an user comment it seems that it doesn't handle FLAC. It should at least support ALAC and other "native" OSX codecs. Another limitation is that the number of trials is hard limited to 5. This program also has an iOS version and seems actively developed, but the developer's site is in japanese only… and I already have my quota of troubles with english, so won't go any further!

None of the above offers automatic level matching.

Does anybody know of something useful to add to this very short list?

[db1989]

Or WineSkin. Of course YMMV, but the version of WineBottler I tried a while back would not proceed past some early stage of wrapper creation; whereas WineSkin has always worked fine, including for foobar2000.

Edit: I know your title says “no FB2K”, buuut… Your concern in the main text that “running FB2K on WINE/Crossover or on a virtual machine [can be done in] very few easy ways” might be assuaged by reports from others who have found it to be easy.

This post has been edited by db1989: Jun 3 2012, 11:43

[Nessuno]

Your concern in the main text that “running FB2K on WINE/Crossover or on a virtual machine [can be done in] very few easy ways” might be assuaged by reports from others who have found it to be easy.

So we can point people to this solution? Maybe someone could write a Wiki entry about?

You see, maybe I was not clear enough in my first post: my concern is not much for myself, I'm rather happy with ABXer and don't see reasons to change as I don't do ABX routinely by now (I already found my sweet spot and for a little while I'd like to keep peace of mind, relax and listen to the music... ), but with the increasing number of Mac users coming to HA, when we tell someone to perform an ABX test, I think we should also give him a feasible solution to do it, don't you think?

This post has been edited by Nessuno: Jun 3 2012, 13:22