MP3 Player Recommendation?

J

JakeStratham

New member
Oct 28, 2009
2,641
177
0
Location, Location
I currently use Quicktime on a Macbook Air. It's simple and less bloated than Itunes.

But it's clunky.

Can you recommend a lightweight alternative?

A few details:

- I'm not streaming. I'm listening to files stored on the MBA's flash.
- I'd like to create playlists (QT doesn't do that - at least not without help from a secondary app)
- I'd like it to be lightweight.

Do you have a recommendation?
 


Hello friend,


66611110022026-large-RCA-Lyra-RD-1071.jpg



Good luck bro.
 
Doesn't get anymore lightweight than CMUS https://cmus.github.io/#home - Runs on everything pretty much everything -- POSIX Linux BSD Windows Cygwin OS X.

It runs in a terminal. I have this on all of my machines from beefy Xeon processors down to puny a Pentium III on a laptop w/ a broken screen. On a 8GB system I'm running it say cmus is using
0.2% of ram.

cmus-2.4.3-osx.png





The default skin look like shit though. This one is a nice theme though.
 
I've used Winamp since the days of Napster. They appear to have a beta version for Mac. Unfortunately, I've only tried the Windows version. I don't know whether the Mac version is comparable.

Winamp isn't currently being developed, but existing versions of it are available here:

Winamp News - Winamp & SHOUTcast Forums
 
I use AIMP3, AIMP I think it's a fork of Winamp by some Russians and it can use Winamp plugins. Also some of the better Winamp skins have been ported for it. It's actively being developed and gets regular updates.

It does everything you're asking for, plays 20 different audio formats, 32 bit processing, streaming audio, has playlists and shit, using about 24.5mb of RAM and 0 to .2% CPU, but unfortunately there's no Mac version.
 
Fatbat said:
I use AIMP3, AIMP I think it's a fork of Winamp by some Russians and it can use Winamp plugins. Also some of the better Winamp skins have been ported for it. It's actively being developed and gets regular updates.

It does everything you're asking for, plays 20 different audio formats, 32 bit processing, streaming audio, has playlists and shit, using about 24.5mb of RAM and 0 to .2% CPU, but unfortunately there's no Mac version.
Click to expand...
This. Still wondering why they won't release Mac version. I think the demand is right out there.
 
Thanks for the recommendations folks. I appreciate your taking the time.

I'm testing Cog. So far, it seems to meet my limited needs. If it stumbles, I'll definitely look into CMUS, sbooth, Tomahawk, Musicbee and Winamp.

I've read that Vox lacks management features. And VLC is a little heavier than I prefer.

Incidentally, in case anyone's interested, I tested Ecoute. Really lightweight and simple, but it pulls from iTunes.

Thanks again.
 
I've got an awesome playlist on soundcloud that lasts many many hours. Would love a player that could play this list of "likes" that isn't just a mini browser.

Tried a few of the usual suspects but they don't download an entire playlist, just 50 or so songs. Anyone know of anything?
 
thanks guys nice reccomendations here, I was using the shitty mediamonkey on Win which is very laggy and slow.
 
chadkimball said:
I've got an awesome playlist on soundcloud that lasts many many hours. Would love a player that could play this list of "likes" that isn't just a mini browser.

Tried a few of the usual suspects but they don't download an entire playlist, just 50 or so songs. Anyone know of anything?
Click to expand...

Try the Firefox plugin called SoundCloud downloader, by Technowise. I use it all the time for single tracks, DJ sets and that sort of thing. It'll do playlists as well, but I don't know if there's a cap on the number of songs or not.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom