Your suggestions for iTunes alternatives for OS X?

loudorangecat · Oct 26th, 2007, 10:48 PM

I'm a Mac OS X user and I can't stand iTunes. There's no support for streaming AAC (although it plays AAC, weird, huh?), or AACplus.

Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternate MP3/AAC/AACplus player for OS X?

I wish Winamp had a Mac port...

90degrees · Oct 27th, 2007, 02:11 AM

tried VLC player yet?
http://www.freemacware.com/vlc

ij70_17as · Oct 27th, 2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by loudorangecat

I'm a Mac OS X user and I can't stand iTunes. There's no support for streaming AAC (although it plays AAC, weird, huh?), or AACplus.

That does not sound right.

I don't like iTunes 7 because it takes so much more resources. I think I have 5 or 6 on my iBook.

Shai`tan · Oct 27th, 2007, 05:05 PM

You should be able to compile AmaroK, but that might be a little too much for you. AAC should work too if the xine engine is compiled with the right codecs.

joelanickerson · Nov 2nd, 2007, 12:28 AM

I've just started trying Play for OSX. I found it on Versiontracker because I was desperate for something that's not Itunes, as well. There are quite a few on versiontracker that might support streaming AAC as well.

joelanickerson · Nov 2nd, 2007, 12:30 AM

sorry, Play is located at sbooth dot org . It's GPL.

loudorangecat · Nov 2nd, 2007, 04:11 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've found that VLC is a very nice, lightweight player that does the job quite well (thanks, 90degrees).

I wish Apple would get their stuff together and fix iTunes properly. For its size, you would image that it at least would stream AAC. :/

Roussi One · Nov 2nd, 2007, 07:39 AM

[VLC is great for playing corrupted videos as well, i found it was the ONLY free Player that will play any type of corrupted file.]

Shai`tan · Nov 2nd, 2007, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Roussi One

[VLC is great for playing corrupted videos as well, i found it was the ONLY free Player that will play any type of corrupted file.]

Are you sure??? How about MPlayer?

Roussi One · Nov 2nd, 2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Shai`tan

Are you sure??? How about MPlayer?

lol, no im not sure, but thats why i put, "i found" instead of just "it is"

ive never tried Mplayer, but in my frustration of having corrupt files that i couldnt play, I search what i could and once satisfied with VLC I looked no further.

Shai`tan · Nov 2nd, 2007, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Roussi One

lol, no im not sure, but thats why i put, "i found" instead of just "it is"

ive never tried Mplayer, but in my frustration of having corrupt files that i couldnt play, I search what i could and once satisfied with VLC I looked no further.

Well I also use VLC on my Windows machine (to make it easier for my girlfriend), but IMHO nothing beats MPlayer

Roussi One · Nov 2nd, 2007, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Shai`tan

Well I also use VLC on my Windows machine (to make it easier for my girfried), but IMHO nothing beats MPlayer

I'll def. give it a try.

thanks for the tip.

...are you getting this loudorangecat?

t3h · Nov 6th, 2007, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by loudorangecat

I wish Winamp had a Mac port...

There is this. But development kinda stopped ages ago...

http://www.macamplite.com/

loudorangecat · Nov 6th, 2007, 11:02 PM

They should really restart development in a Mac OS X version of Winamp due to the high dissatisfaction of iTunes (high overhead, bulky as hell, missing codecs).

They could really give Apple a run for their money. I'd PAY Winamp for it.

TsMkLg068423 · Dec 11th, 2007, 09:05 PM

Yeah, I would love to see Winamp on Mac OS X. Wish it could be more than Windows based also a Mac OS X based.

hyperwired · Apr 29th, 2008, 09:23 AM

MPD (media player daemon). It has a nice server-client architecture with playlist management. You can get many clients for it (both CLI and GUI).

AprilAero · Jul 23rd, 2008, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by loudorangecat

They should really restart development in a Mac OS X version of Winamp due to the high dissatisfaction of iTunes (high overhead, bulky as hell, missing codecs).

They could really give Apple a run for their money. I'd PAY Winamp for it.

Winamp would be awesome if you could run it on Mac OS X, Winamp has the best and greatest selection of visualizations out of all of the Media Players. Mac OS X is truly lacking in terms of selection of Media Players. Sure they do have RealPlayer for Mac OS X but it features are extremely limited compared to its Windows Counterpart.

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Oct 27th, 2007, 02:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
90degrees DI Chronic Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nautor's Swan Posts: 8,463	tried VLC player yet? http://www.freemacware.com/vlc

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joelanickerson Addict in Training Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: US Posts: 2	I've just started trying Play for OSX. I found it on Versiontracker because I was desperate for something that's not Itunes, as well. There are quite a few on versiontracker that might support streaming AAC as well.

Nov 2nd, 2007, 12:30 AM	#6 (permalink)
joelanickerson Addict in Training Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: US Posts: 2	sorry, Play is located at sbooth dot org . It's GPL.

Nov 2nd, 2007, 04:11 AM	#7 (permalink)
loudorangecat Addict in Training Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 8	Thanks for all the suggestions. I've found that VLC is a very nice, lightweight player that does the job quite well (thanks, 90degrees). I wish Apple would get their stuff together and fix iTunes properly. For its size, you would image that it at least would stream AAC. :/

Nov 6th, 2007, 11:02 PM	#14 (permalink)
loudorangecat Addict in Training Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 8	They should really restart development in a Mac OS X version of Winamp due to the high dissatisfaction of iTunes (high overhead, bulky as hell, missing codecs). They could really give Apple a run for their money. I'd PAY Winamp for it.

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hyperwired Junior Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 19	MPD (media player daemon). It has a nice server-client architecture with playlist management. You can get many clients for it (both CLI and GUI).