Music App. For Mac OS X

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This may sound like a project that will never come true. However, with a little bit of time, teamwork, and effort the folks on Neowin can really make a good music app. for Mac OS X.

How?

There are a lot of music apps. for Mac. However, there are many apps. that are missing features that are true necessities. For example, iTunes is great, but it's bloated full of stuff that are rarely used by many users. Another example, would be those commercial products, we can't afford.

If you combine features from every popular Mac music app. and pack it all into one simple user interface such as foobar, it can really make a difference when using a Mac. Especially, when it's made for open source use.

A great example is VLC, it's simple, compact, and plays all videos without any hassle to download codecs from websites. It would be great to have a simple application just like VLC, but it's focus is playing music on a Mac.

So, anyone willing to unite and work on it?

It would be great. :)

Thanks.

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You can actually play mp3s and other music in VLC. It's pretty handy.

yea, you can, but he is asking for something LIKE vlc which FOCUSSES on music, just like foobar but especially for mac.

i think its a nice idea, although im an itunes user for years and i love it. :) but if thered be a real handy, little, good looking, not-so-hungry app that seems appearing to me... why not giving it a try.

hopefully some coders here have enough time and fun to do something like this. :)

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Just because iTunes offers many features doesn't mean it's bloated. The interface is very clean and you can disable services such as Radio, Podcasts, iTunes Store, etc. if you don't need them.

But I agree, beyond iTunes Mac OS X lacks good music players.

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But I agree, beyond iTunes Mac OS X lacks good music players.

That tends to be the case for most Mac software. One or two great apps to do a specific task instead of 50-100 mediocre ones like you tend to have on Windows or Linux. Quality vs. quantity.

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looks like it hasnt been updated in ages

The application has been discontinued because Adion couldn't compete with iTunes.

That tends to be the case for most Mac software. One or two great apps to do a specific task instead of 50-100 mediocre ones like you tend to have on Windows or Linux. Quality vs. quantity.

Yep. It never bothered me. Like you said (at least what I assume you meant) the average quality of Mac OS applications is much better than what you come across on Windows and Linux.

Roxio Toast Titanium is living proof. ;)

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*Dreams of a Cocoa WinAmp-ish app for Mac OS X*

Though I love iTunes, and it's always been everything I needed. I'd still love to at least try a fully native WinAmp-like app for Mac OS X. XMMS, unfortunately, needs X11 to run. Not very practical, in my opinion.

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Since switching in late November, I have been seriously missing Winamp. Running it in Parallel's Coherence mode just doesn't compare to running it natively. Right before the switch, I made a few mockups of an OS X-styled skin for Winamp that might make a pretty decent native app. If there is enough interest in something like this, I'm sure we could get a small team (3-4 people?) together to work on it.

Any takers?

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one replacement for itunes in the future may be http://www.songbirdnest.com/

although they already look very "similar"....

Doubt it. It uses the same horrible technique as Firefox to render it's interface and it's slow as hell as a result. It won't ever come even close to iTunes if it doesn't become a truly native Mac OS X application.

I for one never really liked WinAmp, always used Windows Media Player and after that iTunes (first on Windows XP, later on Mac OS X).

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Doubt it. It uses the same horrible technique as Firefox to render it's interface and it's slow as hell as a result. It won't ever come even close to iTunes if it doesn't become a truly native Mac OS X application.

I for one never really liked WinAmp, always used Windows Media Player and after that iTunes (first on Windows XP, later on Mac OS X).

Songbird would be awesome if it wasnt for that skinning engine

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Just found out that MPlayer for Mac OS X isn't dead. I was keeping track of the wrong site.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Not entirely related to this thread, but it's a pretty nice replacement for VLC. I find VLC a bit too unstable lately. :/

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