Best Music Player Os X Update Dynamically Based

UPDATE: Now that Miro 4 has become a fully-featured media managing and syncing powerhouse, its a pretty worthy contender as well.

Best Music Player Os X Update Dynamically Based

Advertisement iTunes Platform: Mac OS X Price: Free Download Page Features Manages all your media (assuming you use iTunes supported formats ) Create and manage playlists with the ability to organize by folder Create smart playlists, which update dynamically based on criteria you set Burn standard audio CDs and MP3 CDs from your music library and playlists Sync your media with pretty much any Apple device Share your iTunes library with other computers running iTunes via the Home Sharing feature Create Genius Mixes, which take one song and put together a playlist of music with another like it Buy music, TV shows, movies, and more in the integrated iTunes store Share your music interests on Ping, iTunes built-in social network Subscribe to, download, and manage podcasts Purchase and create custom ringtones from the iTunes store Listen to free web-based radio stations Use iTunes DJ to create a continuous, endless mix for your party that allows guests to make requests from their iDevices A few visual effect plug-ins are included to add a visual component to your music Easily fetch album artwork from music thats missing it Share photos with your Apple TV 2 Integrates well with Audible audiobook content Browse your music using several different methods, including the visually appealing (but not necessarily practical) Cover Flow Stream media to AirPlay-compatible devices Built-in sound enhancer and equalizer Sound check feature that adjusts the volume of all tracks to similar levels Built-in song crossfading support Where It Excels iTunes does everything.

It manages just about any type of media you can think of in a simple and intuitive interface.

While it was once an application designed to manage your music, it now manages your (Apple) mobile devices, video, books, ringtones, podcasts, apps, and a number of other things that arent, well, tunes.

On one hand this is useful, but on the other it makes for a big and bloated piece of software.

This is more evident when syncing any device with iTunes, as the syncing process can be slow and tedious (not to mention archaic, as theres still no wireless option).

While iTunes is very capable, its often frustrating and slow.

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Its technologies really only work with formats adhering to Apples fairly strict specifications.

So long as youre willing to do everything Apples way, iTunes lack of support for several file types isnt a drawback.

However, thats not a description likely to fit anyone reading this post.

And then theres Ping, the music-centric social network built in to iTunes.

Its not so much that this feature needs work, but that it really shouldnt exist in the first place.

Its an unnecessary feature that few people use and care about.

Advertisement The Competition There are nearly no comparable alternatives on Mac OS X because iTunes is so deeply integrated into the Mac OS X experience.

That said, there still is one particularly good alternative called Clementine.

It matches many of the features of iTunes (including synchronization support for Apple and non-Apple music playing devices alike) and adds a number of new ones (Wiimote playback control, additional supported formats, tabbed playlists, and more).

The primary downsides are the lack of a fair number of features that iTunes does have (as Clementine is pretty focused on music rather than all types of media) and the interface hasnt been thought out for each individual platform.

Clementine looks almost identical on every platform, which is nice for consistency but prevents it from feeling like a truly native application.

Advertisement While its not much in the way of competition, it is also worth mentioning Vox for those who dont have iDevices they need to sync and only want to play their music.

Vox is a lightweight music player with plenty of features geared solely at making your musicin practically any formatsound its best.

Youll find a built-in equalizer, effects, album art, gapless playback, and more.