Music App. For Mac OS X

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One thing I love about foobar ithe fact it produces your library from watched folders...it doesnt save them. With iTunes if you want music in your library you would have to copy it all to your computer, or have another PC running itunes and look at it shared..

VLC is good, but loadng a playlist each time?

I just want to be able to add my Media drive to some sort of watch list, and then search that and play the music there, on all my macs...I'm finding that really hard at the moment :(

PS: Sorry if I bumped, or I'm missing the point completely

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Generally Apple programs on a Mac run the quickest and generally use little memory, I dunno why you'd need something else when you can have it in it's minimized mode or in its bigger form.... Its really the best player and on Mac OS X its quick and easy and its not really bloated.

Its like using mail or safari, they load quicker use resources better and are just snappier to do things, get a third party App and you won't get that smoothness out of it generally.

I'm a big fan of iTunes but once you get a big library, it really does slow down.

How big is big, I have about 30GB and I'm not getting any slow down at all.

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se7en.hu

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I'm a big fan of iTunes but once you get a big library, it really does slow down.

I got no speed issues whatsoever, I don't know exactly how big your library is, but mines around 15,000 songs 200-ish GB (a-lot of it is lossless which is why its pretty large)

But it couldn't possibly run any faster.

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mrt2

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Obviously I have no speed issues with any applications LOL so that's not a factor but I will say I've been wanting a more winamp (older versions of winamp when it was just simple, not the one today) like app for Mac for sooooo long. iTunes is ok if that's your thing... And believe me some of the features I like, like syncing with my iPod and the visualizer but really I can't stand having it open and I just don't really like the whole 'library' thing much. I use Coversutra so I never have to see iTunes or deal with it... The thing I guess I would like in an Audio player was kinda like how the old Winamp and even Sonique kept it simple... I could click and drag a group of mp3's into the app and play them and then close the app when done...

I don't have to add the songs to a library or have it stay in the application like iTunes. I can just play an mp3 and then close the app when done... I could let the folders they are in do the organization for me (I keep my files organized the way I want them). I would love to just open a lil app, drag a folder and have the songs play in order and then close the app and be done... No 'library', no copying of mp3's to a different location, no editing tags to get the songs sorted in a bazillion different ways etc... I dunno, maybe that's just me.

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offroadaaron

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I don't have to add the songs to a library or have it stay in the application like iTunes. I can just play an mp3 and then close the app when done... I could let the folders they are in do the organization for me (I keep my files organized the way I want them). I would love to just open a lil app, drag a folder and have the songs play in order and then close the app and be done... No 'library', no copying of mp3's to a different location, no editing tags to get the songs sorted in a bazillion different ways etc... I dunno, maybe that's just me.

You can turn the this itunes organisation feature off so it stays in your nice organised folders the way you want, then when you open itunes you can just do a search for your song or make a playlist or search or an album and then play from there, or your top rated songs or most played songs. One app can do it all.

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You can turn the this itunes organisation feature off so it stays in your nice organised folders the way you want, then when you open itunes you can just do a search for your song or make a playlist or search or an album and then play from there, or your top rated songs or most played songs. One app can do it all.

So like when I play a song and then close iTunes I'll have an empty play list and/or library again and I can start from scratch? I guess what I mean is with winamp I open the app drag a folder, play the music and then close the app... when I open the app again everything is fresh again and all the last songs that I played aren't still qued up... so I can then drag the folder again if I want to play those songs or not and not have to worry about them.

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