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For the love of god, WHAT is a good music player for Mac? Going from Foobar2000 (PC) -> iTunes (MAC) is awful.

by EC1 12y ago

iloveyouocean 12y ago
Enqueue is fantastic. Simple, efficient, plays a wide range of formats (including FLAC, APE), auto-scans music folders, etc.
wlesieutre 12y ago
iTunes killed all competition for a long time, but a lot of smaller players without all the baggage are popping back up these days. I haven't tried most of these, but Ecoute is well done. http://mashable.com/2013/07/31/alternatives-to-itunes/ http://mashable.com/2013/07/31/alternatives-to-itunes/ http://pixiapps.com/ecouteosx/ http://pixiapps.com/ecouteosx/
TarpitCarnivore 12y ago
iTunes is still a serviceable player and works well for standard formats. Vox is lightweight and can read a ton of file formats, as well as load up your iTunes library. I think you can set it to auto-load a directory at launch as well. Audivarna is also supposed to be pretty good.
- anomaly_ 12y ago
  Vox is probably the best alternative I've found, particularly with its support for FLAC (I know I can transcode to ALAC).
coffeedrinker 12y ago
I really like Clementine and since I triple boot (Linux, Mac, Windows) I wanted a player that would work the same regardless of OS.
- jonathansizz 12y ago
  I agree. Clementine is similar to older versions of Amarok. It's clean and fast, with just the right amount of features. I didn't realize that it was multi-platform. Anyone on KDE should definitely install it, but apparently it's more widely available than that.
aaronem 12y ago
What really crosses me about iTunes on OS X is that there seems to be no way to pry the media control keys loose from it, which I found perennially vexatious back when I still had an Apple laptop.
pmh 12y ago
I just use foobar via Wine. Some hopefully helpful links: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=77261 http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7726... https://github.com/xeoron/foobar2000-mac https://github.com/xeoron/foobar2000-mac
zenocon 12y ago
J. River Media Center is a fantastic media player for Windows. Recently they have ported it to Mac [2] and an early port is available for Linux. The Mac port was still a little buggy last I tried, but a quick scan of the absolute features identified in the OP blog seem to be covered. I use it on Windows as a Media Center to serve audio/video/pics to all the devices in my home via DLNA. [1] http://www.jriver.com/ http://www.jriver.com/ [2] http://www.jriver.com/download.html http://www.jriver.com/download.html
smutticus 12y ago
I'm relatively happy with Nightingale. Could be better but it works fine for 90% of my needs. http://getnightingale.com/ http://getnightingale.com/
- xj9 12y ago
  I used to think Songbird (now Nightingale) was going places. I remember being so excited when Songbird 0.1a came out! Unfortunately things went downhill after a couple of years until POTI killed the project and progress on the community fork has been excruciatingly slow. I want to get involved, but its hard to know where to start.
- aaronem 12y ago
  Nightingale is what I actually ended up using after I failed to convince foobar2000 on the subject of self-signed SSL certs. A little flaky on occasion, sure, but for my relatively simple purposes, it worked nicely.
pit 12y ago
It hasn't been updated in over four years, but Cog (http://cogx.org/ http://cogx.org/) is wonderfully simple.
antidaily 12y ago
None. Rdio.
archagon 12y ago
Alas, I have resorted to using VLC, which really isn't that bad.
nmridul 12y ago
I've used miro - http://getmiro.com http://getmiro.com.

For the love of god, WHAT is a good music player for Mac? Going from Foobar2000 (PC) -> iTunes (MAC) is awful.

by EC1 12y ago

For the love of god, WHAT is a good music player for Mac? Going from Foobar2000 (PC) -> iTunes (MAC) is awful.

Enqueue is fantastic. Simple, efficient, plays a wide range of formats (including FLAC, APE), auto-scans music folders, etc.

wlesieutre 12y ago

iTunes killed all competition for a long time, but a lot of smaller players without all the baggage are popping back up these days. I haven't tried most of these, but Ecoute is well done. http://mashable.com/2013/07/31/alternatives-to-itunes/ http://mashable.com/2013/07/31/alternatives-to-itunes/ http://pixiapps.com/ecouteosx/ http://pixiapps.com/ecouteosx/

TarpitCarnivore 12y ago

iTunes is still a serviceable player and works well for standard formats. Vox is lightweight and can read a ton of file formats, as well as load up your iTunes library. I think you can set it to auto-load a directory at launch as well. Audivarna is also supposed to be pretty good.

anomaly_ 12y ago
Vox is probably the best alternative I've found, particularly with its support for FLAC (I know I can transcode to ALAC).

coffeedrinker 12y ago

I really like Clementine and since I triple boot (Linux, Mac, Windows) I wanted a player that would work the same regardless of OS.

jonathansizz 12y ago
I agree. Clementine is similar to older versions of Amarok. It's clean and fast, with just the right amount of features. I didn't realize that it was multi-platform. Anyone on KDE should definitely install it, but apparently it's more widely available than that.

aaronem 12y ago

What really crosses me about iTunes on OS X is that there seems to be no way to pry the media control keys loose from it, which I found perennially vexatious back when I still had an Apple laptop.

pmh 12y ago

I just use foobar via Wine. Some hopefully helpful links: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=77261 http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7726... https://github.com/xeoron/foobar2000-mac https://github.com/xeoron/foobar2000-mac

zenocon 12y ago

J. River Media Center is a fantastic media player for Windows. Recently they have ported it to Mac [2] and an early port is available for Linux. The Mac port was still a little buggy last I tried, but a quick scan of the absolute features identified in the OP blog seem to be covered. I use it on Windows as a Media Center to serve audio/video/pics to all the devices in my home via DLNA. [1] http://www.jriver.com/ http://www.jriver.com/ [2] http://www.jriver.com/download.html http://www.jriver.com/download.html

smutticus 12y ago

I'm relatively happy with Nightingale. Could be better but it works fine for 90% of my needs. http://getnightingale.com/ http://getnightingale.com/

xj9 12y ago
I used to think Songbird (now Nightingale) was going places. I remember being so excited when Songbird 0.1a came out! Unfortunately things went downhill after a couple of years until POTI killed the project and progress on the community fork has been excruciatingly slow. I want to get involved, but its hard to know where to start.
aaronem 12y ago
Nightingale is what I actually ended up using after I failed to convince foobar2000 on the subject of self-signed SSL certs. A little flaky on occasion, sure, but for my relatively simple purposes, it worked nicely.

pit 12y ago

It hasn't been updated in over four years, but Cog (http://cogx.org/ http://cogx.org/) is wonderfully simple.

antidaily 12y ago

None. Rdio.

archagon 12y ago

Alas, I have resorted to using VLC, which really isn't that bad.

nmridul 12y ago

I've used miro - http://getmiro.com http://getmiro.com.