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OS X has been a ghetto for music players for some time. If you dont't like iTunes, you don't really have many good options. Hopefully this will ignite some more
by blackguardx 15y ago
OS X has been a ghetto for music players for some time. If you dont't like iTunes, you don't really have many good options. Hopefully this will ignite some more competition in that space.
- simonbrown 15y agoVLC has a Mac version. I don't know how good it is, though.
- xenophanes 15y agoIt's fine apart from occasionally crashing, usually when you open a video or skip around. Generally better than quicktime for watching videos.
- X-Istence 15y agoInstall Perian to add more codec support to Quicktime. I've found that sometimes Quicktime works better than VLC when using Perian.
- xenophanes 15y agoI have Perian but quicktime lacks VLC's hotkeys for jumping forward/backward and has much worse control over playback speed. Quicktime 7 also, FWIW, lies about what playback speed it is using. You can drag the slider and then time it and it doesn't play at the speed it's supposed to.
- hexley 15y agoj,k,l under QT 7 control playback speed.
- ugh 15y agoWell, VLC isn’t really comparable with iTunes. That’s like comparing Lightroom with Photoshop.
- scottschulthess 15y agoVLC is great for watching video. It'll play anything. It's either that or quicktime+perian.
- Hemospectrum 15y agoMPlayerX has fewer weird bugs and a nicer interface than VLC, and is free of the lag issues that Perian displays with certain formats.
- zyb09 15y agoVLC doesn't really manage your media, does it? It just plays it.
- ugh 15y agoThis is not in any way comparable with iTunes. It’s a list of your songs. You can create playlists. That’s it. It’s ugly and it has jerky scrolling. There is no way to edit metadata. It fails completely as a music library and there are much better options available if all you need is a player. It doesn’t even try to innovate. What I want is a competent and feature rich music library (iTunes is perfect for this) I don’t have to micromanage (iTunes fails at this). There is nothing there.
- Avshalom 15y agoI'm not entirely sure it's even trying. I don't have a mac but that page has playing music as the forth bullet point. I think this is supposed to be a program for managing Winamp Android, at least for now.
- lachenmayer 15y agoWhat do you mean about micromanaging your music library? The only "managing" I do with iTunes is dragging a new music file onto the icon, and maybe adjusting the tags slightly.
- jlarocco 15y agoClementine works well on Mac. I will admit it's pretty similar to iTunes, but it's cross platform, has some features not in iTunes, and is lacking some iTunes features that really annoy me. Now, if only it were possible to uninstall iTunes...
- swombat 15y agoCog is very good and minimal. Basically like winamp in the early days, but for Mac.
- beamso 15y agoIf you're looking for something minimal I recommend Vox (http://voxapp.didgeroo.com/ http://voxapp.didgeroo.com/).
- chrishenn 15y agoI love Vox. There's no database that songs have to be added to, it's just whatever the file/folder structure is for your tracks. One idea I experimented with was using pytagsfs to mount a virtual file system based on ID3 tags. I could never get it to work though, and the last update to the project was 2009 :( http://www.pytagsfs.org/ http://www.pytagsfs.org/
- xedarius 15y agoCan I say a big thank you for removing the curse of iTunes from my life. Long live Vox.
- antihero 15y agoNot tried it but if I were to get a Macbook, I'd use this: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/MPD_on_OSXa http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/MPD_on_OSXa