AIMP 5.40.2675 for macOS

Monkey's Audio, FLAC, OGG, WAV, MP3, and a couple dozen more. AIMP on a Mac doesn't flinch when you throw a messy folder of mixed formats at it. It's the same engine Windows users have leaned on for years, just repackaged with Wineskin so it runs on Apple Silicon hardware.

Where it sits next to your other tools

This isn't a Finder replacement like Music or a minimal bar like QuickTime. Think of it as the utility player you pull up when the format is weird or the playlist is enormous.

• Straight to the file. No library import, no copying files into a database. Point it at a folder and it plays.
• Sits nicely with tagging tools. Edit metadata in something like Yate or Kid3, then flip back to AIMP for playback. It reads what you wrote.
• Skin engine stays out of the way. The interface is fully themable, but the default look is clean enough that most people never bother changing it.

The long-term format friend

Some audio apps treat a twenty-year-old WavPack rip like a problem to solve. AIMP just plays it. The 5.40 update quietly updated the Monkey's Audio codec and sped up waveform calculation, so even high-resolution files draw their peaks faster. And if you land on a track tagged in Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, or Swedish, the interface can switch right along with you.

Middle-click closes playlist tabs instantly

Most people open AIMP, drag in a folder, and hit play. That works. But a few quiet shortcuts live just under the surface, and once you know them, they become muscle memory.

• Middle-click a playlist tab to close it instantly. No hunting for a tiny X.
• Hold Shift while dragging a track in the playlist to force it between two others, even when the auto-sort is active. Handy when you've built a running order and just need to slip one song into the right spot.
• Ctrl+Alt+Eject (or the power key on newer keyboards) pauses playback and clears the now-playing list. I use this when someone walks in and I need silence in half a second flat.
• The waveform seek bar isn't just for show. Click anywhere on it to jump, or click and drag downward to scrub at variable speed. The more you pull down, the slower the scrub — useful for finding a quiet intro buried in a long ambient track.

Tagging a live recording from start to finish

Say you pulled a concert recording off a friend's drive. It's one long FLAC file — no track breaks, no tags, just a filename like "show2024.flac." Here's how I'd shape it into something playable.

1. Load the file into AIMP and open the built-in tag editor (right-click the track, pick Edit tags).
2. Set the album title, artist, and year first. The editor remembers these while you work on the rest.
3. Use the waveform display in the player to spot the silence between songs. Note the timestamps on paper or in a sticky note.
4. Back in the tag editor, switch to the Cue Sheet tab. Manually enter each track's start time and title. The format is plain text, and AIMP previews the splits as you type.
5. Save the cue sheet, then right-click the file in the playlist and pick Convert. Tell AIMP to split by the cue points and write new FLAC files into a folder.

What you end up with is a proper album, each track tagged and named, ready for any player — no extra software, no command-line tools, just one app and twenty minutes of clicking around.

• macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
• Apple Silicon Mac