iTunes or iTunes

dude, switch your iTunes to cover flow mode... whatch THAT eye candy!

 

Audion had many faces, some of them very nice. It is now a discontinued product though.

 

Songbird is really buggy right now, but when its ready, I think it could really challenge iTunes for users who don't use the store. I mean, firefox is killing safari, and even if this doesn't damage iTunes' share, it could give Apple a kick up the backside to include skins and other cool features.

 

Don't forget QuickTime for all your audio needs

 

I never heard of this, but I just looked and think it's amazing. Wow. I'm going to give that a try...

 

It's rather slow and buggy. It also does basically exactly what iTunes does but without being able to play all the songs I've bought so it's iTunes for me.

 

Skins are cool. And I thought that a built-in browser was unnecessary and gimmicky, but its actually quite cool, I'm still an iTunes user though, maybe not for long...

 

Also try iTunes' minimized mode out -- click the green ball in the upper left. The truth, though, is that the whole business of really only having one good app that does a certain thing, and only really does it in one way, is kind of core to Macs... it's not a coincidence that Macs don't have thirty different music players.... now that you not only bought a Mac, but bought an insanely expensive one, try spending a little time with Apple software being used in the designed way and really give it a try before you try to make your Mac act just like Windows... I say that as a switcher... I bought my first Mac less than three years ago.

 

I'd absolutely agree. Great point!

 

IMO, Nothing special.

iTunes all the way baby.

 

Oh, ahem, erm, yeah...erm...*gulp*

You're on your own with that.

 

If that's what you want I suggest you beg the WinAMP team to make another Mac verson. They had one back in the days of OS 9.

 

If it sucks less RAM than iTunes 7 does, I'm sold...

 

that songbird looks solid. i cant wait for it to be ready

 

This isn't quite true.

OS 9 => OS X (Classic Apps Work)
OS X => OS X Intel (OS X PPC apps work, Classic Apps don't)

Carbon ports are not that difficult. It would not have taken that long to develop a Mac OS X version of WinAmp from the OS 9 version.

It would then have to be updated to a universal binary, but again Apple has tried to make this as easy as possible for developers.

 

That's not true, Macs are completely backward compatible. Especially the PPC Macs (like mine and a lot of other peoples'). The only reason the newer ones can't run OS 9 is that they use Intel processors so you would have to double emulate to get back to OS 9 (Intel > PPC > Classic) this would make it dog slow and close to unusable. Furthermore, most of the OS 9 software has had support dropped by the developers for years, many of them have had OS X versions released which again makes OS 9 useless.

 

How about MPlayer or VLC?

 

*Kicks the door down and runs in screaming "I'VE GOT IT I'VE GOT IT!!"*

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=254580&highlight=Mac

 

Perhaps you should try learning how to use iTunes before making that judgement. iTunes is so much better than winamp.

Just preview the file right in the Finder, and if you want to keep it, drag and drop it into iTunes. Done.