you might take a look at Audion by Panic. its no longer one of their supported products, but its free now and maybe it'll fit your needs.
http://www.panic.com/audion/
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Switched to mac -- missing winamp
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you might take a look at Audion by Panic. its no longer one of their supported products, but its free now and maybe it'll fit your needs.
http://www.panic.com/audion/
Here's another vote for Cog/Play. Lightweight, fast, plays more file types than iTunes, and just generally isn't the royal pain in the rear that is Apple proprietary software.
I, too, am having difficulties adjusting to iTunes. What angers me about it is the following:
1) It only recognizes a portion of my Chinese/Korean/Japanese songs, the other, what, about 2/3 of it is a bunch of "????"!!! Why???? (Otherwise, when under Applications or whatever folder I put the songs, it displays ALL the characters perfectly!!! It's only that upon loading the songs into iTunes, lots of them would turn into question marks, while some remain untouched.)
2) Why the hell can't it sort the songs by the mp3 external name/tag?? All of my mp3s were arranged perfectly according to the alphabet of the external names of the mp3s when I was still a Windows user, but now iTunes arranges them by INTERNAL naming of the songs, which, some of my mp3s have, others DON'T. Or some only have the track name inside, but no artist or album, so consequently, it places the song on the bottom of the list or wherever out of the context! Considering the large amounts of those that don't have their full internal tag, I really wouldn't want to rename each of them manually. Can something be done about these arrangements??
1) It only recognizes a portion of my Chinese/Korean/Japanese songs, the other, what, about 2/3 of it is a bunch of "????"!!! Why???? (Otherwise, when under Applications or whatever folder I put the songs, it displays ALL the characters perfectly!!! It's only that upon loading the songs into iTunes, lots of them would turn into question marks, while some remain untouched.)
2) Why the hell can't it sort the songs by the mp3 external name/tag?? All of my mp3s were arranged perfectly according to the alphabet of the external names of the mp3s when I was still a Windows user, but now iTunes arranges them by INTERNAL naming of the songs, which, some of my mp3s have, others DON'T. Or some only have the track name inside, but no artist or album, so consequently, it places the song on the bottom of the list or wherever out of the context! Considering the large amounts of those that don't have their full internal tag, I really wouldn't want to rename each of them manually. Can something be done about these arrangements??
have you tried VOX ?
http://www.voxapp.net/
brilliant little app, similar to Winamp, and built for OSX
http://www.voxapp.net/
brilliant little app, similar to Winamp, and built for OSX
Of course there is. You effectively double the number of function keys without having to add any new physical keys. You can choose whether they are the normal F1 - F19 by default or the Apple control keys by default.
Hmm i'd say use iTunes, its awesome. iTunes works far better on OS X than it does on Windows. with my macbook you get f7~f12 for skip play/pause and volume functions, which work perfectly with leopard. ive personally never used winamp, it just looks ugly, yes its skinable but i've always seen ugly ass skins for it
but the RAID issue, that..is something i'm not sure iTunes can do.
but the RAID issue, that..is something i'm not sure iTunes can do.
Have to admit, tried Vox today, and I'm liking it a lot! Good Winamp replacement, except of course for file types it can't play.
There actually was a version of it backin the day (around '97-'99) called MacAMP. But that was killed a loooong time ago. And since being bought by AOL I don't think it will come back. AOL seems to be be much more Windows centric.
I'm in a similar boat. I had used WinAMP for over 10 years when I switched in October. Still haven't found a exact replacement. Though gotta say iTunes is close. It has support for streaming radio which is one of the things I loved about WinAMP. Though iTunes doesn't come close to all the free shoutcast movies, tv and audio. I've yet to bit the bullet and let it manage my vast MP3 collection, but I think I may give it a wurl. I've really not given into to the iLife way of letting those apps manage everything for me yet.
Anyone know of a OS X Shoutcast player that has the number of stations as Winamp Media section had? I used to be able to wat Lost and a whole **** load of other shows & movies there.
Hmm i'd say use iTunes, its awesome. iTunes works far better on OS X than it does on Windows. with my macbook you get f7~f12 for skip play/pause and volume functions, which work perfectly with leopard. ive personally never used winamp, it just looks ugly, yes its skinable but i've always seen ugly ass skins for it
but the RAID issue, that..is something i'm not sure iTunes can do.
It also can't do things like, oh... I don't know... play a flac file? That alone makes it decidedly un-awesome.
Then use VLC which is a 100 times better than Winamp. Or better yet convert the FLAC file to Apple Lossless and stick it in iTunes.
100 times better? Care to elaborate?
Because compatibility should start with the player, not the file.
Releases and news for both have been few and far in between, to say the least.
Obviously it wasn't intended to be taken literally but VLC is a superior media player. It handles more audio and video formats than Winamp does.
What is the point in keeping compatibility if you only use one player? Or even if you use 1 player 80% of the time.
Jeez. SOME people just don't know how to search.
http://macupdate.com/search.php?keywords=flac&os=mac
Jeez. SOME people just don't know how to search.
http://macupdate.com/search.php?keywords=flac&os=mac
I just tried that link in Firefox and Safari and it doesn't load anything. Care to try again?
Coocked up one myself
I just wanted a small player in which I could drag my mp3 files to. They are located on an external disc and I hat them all being copied to iTunes.
I made it with Flash (which has its quirks with some non 44.1 encoded bitrates but 99% of my collection is played well). You don't need to install anything (well apart from having the Flash player plugin on your system), just download and run it.
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Just drag and drop a selected list of files (or a folder) on the window and it starts playing. You can give it a try: http://www.rgp.nl/qplayer.zip (484KB)
I just wanted a small player in which I could drag my mp3 files to. They are located on an external disc and I hat them all being copied to iTunes.
I made it with Flash (which has its quirks with some non 44.1 encoded bitrates but 99% of my collection is played well). You don't need to install anything (well apart from having the Flash player plugin on your system), just download and run it.
Just drag and drop a selected list of files (or a folder) on the window and it starts playing. You can give it a try: http://www.rgp.nl/qplayer.zip (484KB)
Simple, nice and useful! Congratulations!I made it with Flash (which has its quirks with some non 44.1 encoded bitrates but 99% of my collection is played well). You don't need to install anything (well apart from having the Flash player plugin on your system), just download and run it.
Just drag and drop a selected list of files (or a folder) on the window and it starts playing. You can give it a try: http://www.rgp.nl/qplayer.zip (484KB)
winamp not eq itunes
Let me be clear about something here. 1. I use macs since they exist. 2. I use windows since it exist. 3. I use computers since macs and windows did not exist. I am nobody's fan. But I am mostly on mac simply because it is the most beautiful and worked-out UNIX shell made today.
But iLoones and WinBump are two different ideas of music use. I really do not care about 80% of apple stuff that has been dumped in iTunes in recent years to improve apple store selling of any kind. I do not use it and do not plan to use it which renders 80% od iLoones unusable to me. What makes me even more going away from it is the fact that for any kind of extended functionality it will in this or that way jump to Apple Store.... that is NAGGING. Why they do not admit that iLoones is NAG-WARE.
I really miss WinAmp functionality on the Mac. Honestly.
1. I want to organize my music files IN A WAY I WANT not according to the iTunes/iPod idea of organization. Because I LISTEN MY MUSIC on 3 different OSes. Apple, as much as you believe so, YOU ARE NOT ONLY THING IN THIS PART OF UNIVERSE
2. I want to name songs according to the content not according to the CD rip I have and apple store (iTunes really does not quite do it, winamp on windows QUITE DOES IT).
3. I want to listen files in the way I want it (nice try iTunes Genious or Smart lists, it resembles WinAmp but tend to clog, add list, remove list, add remove, search through the library, gets boring after a while, so i stick to one list and edit edit edit = tedious). Where is famous mac files Drag & Drop. Oh yes, it does it to the Library (not to mention what if I do not want to import - switch off, switch on copying the files to library). Consolidation? Better do not do it.... WinAMP here offers simplicity. I have about 150Gb of music AND I DO NOT WANT IT ALL IN MY LIBRARY ON MAC, I need my HDD space for other stuff. Not to mention that iTunes became mastodont of an application. It takes time to start. What additionally drives me nuts is ituneshelper background app both on mac and win. Yes it does help but it is 99.99% of the time useless waste of CPU.
4. WinAmp has itunes style of library, nice move, BUT, I DO NOT USE IT, because 1 (above).
So MP3 player not equal to iTunes.... Play is good http://sbooth.org/Play/ but it still tries to catch on iTunes kinda philosophy. Still waiting for simple list drag and drop folder MP3 Player with easily editable adhoc play list.
Let me be clear about something here. 1. I use macs since they exist. 2. I use windows since it exist. 3. I use computers since macs and windows did not exist. I am nobody's fan. But I am mostly on mac simply because it is the most beautiful and worked-out UNIX shell made today.
But iLoones and WinBump are two different ideas of music use. I really do not care about 80% of apple stuff that has been dumped in iTunes in recent years to improve apple store selling of any kind. I do not use it and do not plan to use it which renders 80% od iLoones unusable to me. What makes me even more going away from it is the fact that for any kind of extended functionality it will in this or that way jump to Apple Store.... that is NAGGING. Why they do not admit that iLoones is NAG-WARE.
I really miss WinAmp functionality on the Mac. Honestly.
1. I want to organize my music files IN A WAY I WANT not according to the iTunes/iPod idea of organization. Because I LISTEN MY MUSIC on 3 different OSes. Apple, as much as you believe so, YOU ARE NOT ONLY THING IN THIS PART OF UNIVERSE
2. I want to name songs according to the content not according to the CD rip I have and apple store (iTunes really does not quite do it, winamp on windows QUITE DOES IT).
3. I want to listen files in the way I want it (nice try iTunes Genious or Smart lists, it resembles WinAmp but tend to clog, add list, remove list, add remove, search through the library, gets boring after a while, so i stick to one list and edit edit edit = tedious). Where is famous mac files Drag & Drop. Oh yes, it does it to the Library (not to mention what if I do not want to import - switch off, switch on copying the files to library). Consolidation? Better do not do it.... WinAMP here offers simplicity. I have about 150Gb of music AND I DO NOT WANT IT ALL IN MY LIBRARY ON MAC, I need my HDD space for other stuff. Not to mention that iTunes became mastodont of an application. It takes time to start. What additionally drives me nuts is ituneshelper background app both on mac and win. Yes it does help but it is 99.99% of the time useless waste of CPU.
4. WinAmp has itunes style of library, nice move, BUT, I DO NOT USE IT, because 1 (above).
So MP3 player not equal to iTunes.... Play is good http://sbooth.org/Play/ but it still tries to catch on iTunes kinda philosophy. Still waiting for simple list drag and drop folder MP3 Player with easily editable adhoc play list.
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I have never used it but, have you tried DoubleTwist?
Or better yet try running WINAmp though Cross Over?
Hugh