mac music app
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- ukit
What do you use to play your music, just regular iTunes, iTunes w/ add on or a different program?
- utopian0
silly iQuestion
- johfiner0
Vox is sweet, it plays lots of different formats, and it's much less resource intensive than iTunes. It doesn't do fancy things like burn CDs and keep a library for you, but it does have a lot of other fancy features for adjusting the sound.
- colin_s0
itunes, but i really think there needs to be some sort of open source project that makes winamp 2.5 be the universal standard in music players
- ukit0
What is the good part about winamp? Even on the PC, I also use iTunes.
- sublocked0
winamp is simple. you just select a folder full of music and let it play through it. that and it plays shoutcast stations. that's all i want...play controls and a list of songs i selected.
i've been keeping mp3s forever and have like 500gb in my own folder structure on a raid backup on a central machine in my house so i can play from multiple computers...
itunes wants to "manage your library" and sucks over network drives. the gapless playback shit takes ages and it always times out on me and is fucking slow.
- Makes senseukit
- and how is this not possible on itunes?Meeklo
- < dumb. if you've spent more than 2 seconds using itunes, you'd know you can create your own playlists.iCanHazQBN
- did you miss the part about it being SLOW over a network drive with a huge library?sublocked
- they actually fixed the slow network drive issues, that was a big complaint of mine, now super speedy.acescence
- ok_not_ok0
VLC
- ernexbcn0
iTunes FTW
Winamp was good on the PC until Justin Frankel left nullsoft/AOL
- Meeklo0
There is winamp for mac, and back in the day there was mac amp (not sure if that one still out there)
But I think itunes got better and better ad a media player, the music recomendation, the built in store, the rating system, the great funtionality pairing it w ipod/ iphone, the huge library of free radio stations and the ability to play those unlisted on the player is what I like about it.
On top of that, I'm able to store and play tons of albums I have on 2 portable drives, to avoid filing up my computer.
The podcast library is pretty sweet, for both video and music.
- boobs0
I use Reason 4.0, and I just got Record.
Making your own is the new listening to other people's.
- heh.akrokdesign
- You make every piece of music you listen to? Sounds like a lot of work.ukit
- ismith0
I use Cog, simply because I have amassed a fun collection of FLAC that don't play well with iTunes (yes, fluke is great, but it's a hack and it doesn't always work so well). If iTunes supported FLAC I would be back with it in a second– folder management is good, but having an actual library with ratings, tags, artwork, etc is so much more useful.
- You can also check out Songbird, like iTunes and plays FLAC. I just don't feel like migrating the whole thing...ismith
- iCanHazQBN0
god winamp is so fugly. looks very 1998 pixely Windows esque.
- inkpink0
i tried this one, a little too light for my listening habits... but might suit some people well.
- eating_tv0
foobar2000
- erikjonsson0
itunes and spotify
- benfal990
iTunes + Audio Hijack Pro + Last.fm for stats
- airey0
just as a simply query, for just playing music (including playlists, etc) why is there such derision aimed at itunes? i've used it for years (tried audion years ago) and it does just what the box states - places music. managing it certainly helps me, although many people see this as losing control for some reason?! is it just unhappiness aimed at apple as some kind of world-eating multinational or what?
(obviously if you're on pc ignore this, itunes certainly runs like a dog on my vista laptop).
- ninjasavant0
I love the genius feature on iTunes.
