In OSX I just use afplay. Lowest CPU/battery consumption ever. I made a simple ruby gem that uses it for playing random / specific music on your /Music folder:

In OSX I just use afplay. Lowest CPU/battery consumption ever. I made a simple ruby gem that uses it for playing random / specific music on your /Music folder: http://rubygems.org/gems/gramola http://rubygems.org/gems/gramola It does the trick for me: "just play music while I code and save me some battery". Hope somebody else finds it useful :)