Guys can you suggest a media player for my music collection which is neatly organized on my disk over last few decades. I don't like the media files randomly playing using inbuilt music app, it can play full albums well but I have many folders with random songs they don't belong to same album & I want a player which can show me those folders within media player & simply play the content of that folder.
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Suggest Media player which can play from a folder
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Aural player - An audio player for macOS, inspired by Winamp https://github.com/kartik-venugopal/aural-player
Clementine https://www.clementine-player.org/
VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
Phonix - Free macOS music player https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/phonix-free-macos-music-player-10-13-13-0.1985426/
Other suggestions
Alternative to iTunes/Music for Offline Music https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/alternative-to-itunes-music-for-offline-music.2280883/
Clementine https://www.clementine-player.org/
VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
Phonix - Free macOS music player https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/phonix-free-macos-music-player-10-13-13-0.1985426/
Other suggestions
Alternative to iTunes/Music for Offline Music https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/alternative-to-itunes-music-for-offline-music.2280883/
Give FooBar a try, that music app works with Windows better and their is a iOs app as well.
the GUI was not
friendly but the sound replay was outstanding as I remembered.
the GUI was not
friendly but the sound replay was outstanding as I remembered.
Tiny Player https://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/
Dopamine (cross platform) https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine/
Pine Player https://apps.apple.com/en-us/app/pine-player/id1112075769?mt=12
Colibri https://apps.apple.com/en-us/app/colibri/id1178295426?mt=12
IINA https://www.iina.io/
IINA might not be obvious as it's a video media player - except it can play from a folder containing music just fine - has a Music Mode that's available from the menu bar. VLC is the same.. a video player but plays MP3 / M4A too.
None of the above media players I've shared can play purchased M4P files ... "Music" app in macOS is sadly the only one capable of that. That I know of. Also iTunes of course.
Dopamine (cross platform) https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine/
Pine Player https://apps.apple.com/en-us/app/pine-player/id1112075769?mt=12
Colibri https://apps.apple.com/en-us/app/colibri/id1178295426?mt=12
IINA https://www.iina.io/
IINA might not be obvious as it's a video media player - except it can play from a folder containing music just fine - has a Music Mode that's available from the menu bar. VLC is the same.. a video player but plays MP3 / M4A too.
None of the above media players I've shared can play purchased M4P files ... "Music" app in macOS is sadly the only one capable of that. That I know of. Also iTunes of course.
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Swinsian https://swinsian.com/
Swinsian is a great music player, sorting by the path column should yield the desired behaviour.
Swinsian is a great music player, sorting by the path column should yield the desired behaviour.
Why needlessly complicate things?
"Do I need a Plex media server to use Plexamp?
Yes, and no. Tidal subscribers may use the app without setting up a media server. To play your own collection, you’re gonna need one. Luckily, we’ve got helpful step-by-step instructions right here for how to get started setting up your server. Plexamp here you come!"
I’m all for using preinstalled binaries from Terminal, but that’s not going to help anyone play music files from folders.
“Play all mp3 files in current directory with afplay”https://gist.github.com/sirmews/488fd2d7d1a3a154c4960cb50090d056
Code:
find . -name '*.mp3' -exec afplay '{}' \;
VLC is a handy app to have in general as it can play just about any media file you can throw at it, but it's default main interface features a file browser that you can browse your music in your existing folder structure.
The only downside I've found are minor UI quirks; it has a light and dark mode that have to be manually switched (it doesn't respect macOS's automatic switching) and the icon still isn't Big Sur-ified, but those are minor quibbles.
The only downside I've found are minor UI quirks; it has a light and dark mode that have to be manually switched (it doesn't respect macOS's automatic switching) and the icon still isn't Big Sur-ified, but those are minor quibbles.