No good with large collections.

All I want is it to load meta-data for 85,000 FLAC files, and allow me to search in a split-second, and then play an album. Oh, and it has to support 24bit FLAC too.

I don't use playlists, I don't care about UI so much.

At home I use a Squeezebox Transporter. Works brilliantly. But in a desktop player WinAmp is the only thing I've found that can scan and handle the collection, and than search it fast. So I run that in a VM.

I realise I'm an edge case, but WinAmp for Mac looks like it fits my need.

WinAmp for Mac is crap (as of today).

It cannot scan a large collection, it imported only 65 tracks every time I fired off the import. Each time taking a few minutes to do it.

That's not going to work for 85,000 files. Fidelia at least imports a couple of thousand files before crashing.

what about clementine ? http://www.clementine-player.org/

mpd/mpc then?