You could use VLC, but the reason there really aren't any other media players for Mac is that Mac users don't use anything else... iTunes is awesome, easy, and free... so I'd never use anything else. Even on Windows.
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If you think itunes is awesome thats up to you ...but i have a mind of my own and it can't come close to winamp....were are the itune shins plugins and visual fx.....
itunes looks more like a spread sheet than a media player and winamp play video files too..
but you keep your mind closed and use itunes...and quicktime and what ever else you need to use to play your media....
winamp dose it all
and may i remind you itunes was created to interface with the ipod and too sell you music from the apple store... it was only made for windows because pc users bought ipods too
No, it looks like a serious piece of software; not some junky toy with go-faster stripes and a spoiler.
Alright guys, the guys got WinAMP running and he's happy, now let's let this thread go the way of all other answered threads...
I honestly think WinAMP is absolute garbage (and thought so before I switched), but I do recognize the value of a simple music player that doesn't have a library like iTunes for those times when you want to just play a file without adding it to your library. For that, there are a few choices:
Cog (Universal)
MacAmp Lite X (PPC)
Audion (PPC)
MacAmp Lite X and Audion are discontinued, and both are PPC, but they both run fine in Rosetta. Cog is still alive and being developed and is a universal binary. I use Cog frequently. It is especially nice because it will play FLAC and other formats that iTunes doesn't support.
Cog (Universal)
MacAmp Lite X (PPC)
Audion (PPC)
MacAmp Lite X and Audion are discontinued, and both are PPC, but they both run fine in Rosetta. Cog is still alive and being developed and is a universal binary. I use Cog frequently. It is especially nice because it will play FLAC and other formats that iTunes doesn't support.
There is always XMMS, available through Fink. It's a reasonably competent Winamp clone, it can even use Winamp classic skins.
The last time I played with this, AAC support was still in the Fink unstable branch (looks like it's still there), but after the initial build wait it worked fine. The AAC decoder ignores the eq and ID3 settings (possibliy part of why it's in the unstable branch), but MP3 etc. use it.
Okay, I still have it installed, even the default skin should be sufficiently garish for anyone:
The last time I played with this, AAC support was still in the Fink unstable branch (looks like it's still there), but after the initial build wait it worked fine. The AAC decoder ignores the eq and ID3 settings (possibliy part of why it's in the unstable branch), but MP3 etc. use it.
Okay, I still have it installed, even the default skin should be sufficiently garish for anyone:
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I don't understand...
You can drag a song from a USB drive and drop it directly into iTunes and play it... and it's automatically copied to your itunes folder. If you don't like it, you just delete it.
Wow, thanks for the link to Cog. That's a pretty cool little player. As you said, it's a good app to have if you wanna play a song without adding it to your iTunes library. I had no clue it existed.
Anyway, iTunes is definitely the best media player on any platform, IMO. It's very simple and has an excellent interface and got even better with the release of iTunes 7.
To be fair if you scroll up I did try and suggest Audion, but it got ignored.
The many faces of Audion:
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You like WinAMP? Blimey, I used it on the PC until I found iTunes. Now that is all I use no matter if it is PC or Mac.
If anyone is really keen on a different media player, many of the Linux / Unix ones should work on OS X as well.
First rule of a Mac is simple : Use it like a Mac, not a PC
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If anyone is really keen on a different media player, many of the Linux / Unix ones should work on OS X as well.
First rule of a Mac is simple : Use it like a Mac, not a PC
.ok lets stop fighting over which is best....it wouldn't do if we all liked the same thing...I have got WinAmp working on my Mac and I am as happy as a kid on chirtsmas morning.....
I am not saying itunes is no good it plays mp3 and other media but it looks like a spread sheet....
I like WinAmp because of all the shins and plugins you can get for it so it the only media player i need on my computer it plays everything audio and video...
itunes will not..nor will quicktime....
one point if macs are so good and pcs are so bad why do you need boot camp and Parallels...
After all mac as all the apps you ever need...
anyway thanks for all you help get winamp to work on my mac...
I am not saying itunes is no good it plays mp3 and other media but it looks like a spread sheet....
I like WinAmp because of all the shins and plugins you can get for it so it the only media player i need on my computer it plays everything audio and video...
itunes will not..nor will quicktime....
one point if macs are so good and pcs are so bad why do you need boot camp and Parallels...
After all mac as all the apps you ever need...
anyway thanks for all you help get winamp to work on my mac...
I'm glad you found a solution.
As for your comments about why Boot Camp and Parallels are required. They aren't. I don't have any of them installed on my MacBook Pro.
Some may need Windows for work or special purpose apps, some may want Windows for games or preference, but most don't really need Windows.
As for your comments about why Boot Camp and Parallels are required. They aren't. I don't have any of them installed on my MacBook Pro.
Some may need Windows for work or special purpose apps, some may want Windows for games or preference, but most don't really need Windows.
Well glad to hear that you have got the player working to your satisfaction.
They don't, I use Windows a lot and actually have very few problems with it. The thing is though if I could buy an application for Windows or get the exact same application for the Mac I'd choose the Mac version every time.
Personal taste I guess.
They don't, I use Windows a lot and actually have very few problems with it. The thing is though if I could buy an application for Windows or get the exact same application for the Mac I'd choose the Mac version every time.
Personal taste I guess.
I must agree with you my Mac is far more stable then any PC..But in all fairness my Mac is only more stable because it as a better OS.. Window is the only thing that makes a PC unstable...
in fact windows still crashes from time to time on my mac...
But my point is. There isn't a lot of software out there for macs.. and you choice is very limited...
if i could get winamp for mac or windows i would choose mac everytime too...
now mac have moved over to intel hopefuly more software will become avalible for Macs...
just one more point apple makes the Mac and writes the OS to go with it thats why its so reliable... they only have may be a dozon diffrent hardware configeration to worry about..
with a PC there are millons of diffrent hardware configerations to worry about
so i think microsoft dose a pritty good job of getting windows to work at all..
so instend of saying windows is junk.. may be we should be saying wow they did that..
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If you think the os is the only thing that makes windows unstable, you must not be a software expert. Its mildly irritating that you are making assertions to which you have no background or knowledge about. You are arguing out of ignorance.
Mac software is not very limited. There is over 10,000 different software titles. How many software do you have to have for it to be enough. Don't tell me as many as windows. But what number of software titles do you need. For instance there are several browsers. Safari, firefox, camino, ominibrower, internet explorer, and etc... Go to www.macupdate.com then you will have an idea of how much software there is for mac.
Just about every software niche has something to fill it. Sorry, but your fallacy that there aren't any software titles, isn't based in our current reality. Also Why would you pick one software niche and then act like that is representative of the whole eco-system? That just isn't being fare to Macs.
Nobody gives Microsoft too much credit for supporting all those hardware configurations because Microsoft doesn't deserve the credit. The burden of drivers for all those hardware configurations rest on the shoulders of the hardware developers. If you want to use a TV card with a windows computer, you must get the drivers from the TV card maker. Most hardware is abstracted anyway. You can plug any keyboard in a mac and it will work. Nothing unique about windows there.
For me, Mac is better than windows. Are you even a mac user? if you like all windows stuff so much, just use windows. Nobody will be mad at you.
ok this is getting out of hand..
I started this thread to find out if there was a program simlair to wimamp for mac...
answer yes but they is nothing that dose all the things winamp dose.
There may well be 10.000 apps for a mac but there a 100.000 for windows..
and no i don't need to be a software expert to tell you windows as bugs...just go to there web site and look at the update.
As for your any keyboard working on a mac thats just not true i have a logitech G15 and only harf the keybroad works because there are no drivers for mac
And just one more point if you care to visit planet souce code.com i have unloaded about 20 programs i have wrote using visual basic..including a media player...
No i am not a software expert but yes I do no pc's crash mainly because of software not hardware
Also all you die hard mac user you should take a look a british computer call Acorn they were doing what mac are doing now 10 years ago and there OS looks very slimlair to a mac and they have run windows for years...
I started this thread to find out if there was a program simlair to wimamp for mac...
answer yes but they is nothing that dose all the things winamp dose.
There may well be 10.000 apps for a mac but there a 100.000 for windows..
and no i don't need to be a software expert to tell you windows as bugs...just go to there web site and look at the update.
As for your any keyboard working on a mac thats just not true i have a logitech G15 and only harf the keybroad works because there are no drivers for mac
And just one more point if you care to visit planet souce code.com i have unloaded about 20 programs i have wrote using visual basic..including a media player...
No i am not a software expert but yes I do no pc's crash mainly because of software not hardware
Also all you die hard mac user you should take a look a british computer call Acorn they were doing what mac are doing now 10 years ago and there OS looks very slimlair to a mac and they have run windows for years...
Dude... Macs made as late as last year were backwards compatible with a lot of software from the 80s. They just now, for the first time ever, totally dropped support for pre-OSX apps with the new Intel Macs... this isn't like something that happens every 3 years.
You need to learn a little more about the Macintosh platform, and it's history, before you start talking about how bad iTunes is and how updating your Mac breaks all your old software (???).