Quicktime vs iTunes

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/music/#tab=itunes&tutorial=itunesexplore

Quicktime Player is really only used for video.. if you're going to listen to audio you should use iTunes. Watch those tutorial videos if you need help trying to figure out how to use iTunes.

 

QuickTime is the native media layer in OS X that plays all your audio and video, that is if its compatible and you arent using a third party player like VLC or MPlayer. iTunes uses QuickTime to play audio and video and so does QuickTime Player (the application)… obviously

iTunes is better for playing CDs as it searches for the track names using Gracenote (if the meta data isnt already on the CD) and displays the track listing nicely. then you can then 'rip' it too your music library.

QuickTime Player is good for playing audio or videos files on your hard disk but iTunes is better for organising your music and videos and syncing them to your iPod/iPhone.

 

Quicktime Player is great for listening to single tracks and video files but I don't know how useable it would be with an audio CD. I'd just use iTunes, at least that way you can get CDDB track names.

 

I use iTunes, but you can get WMP for Mac and RealPlayer for Mac.