The program has all the features you'd expect from a modern media player, including the ability to play MP3, ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC, MP4, RA, and RM files. You can also listen to internet radio streams. There's no support for DRM though, so if you've got restricted music files on your desktop, this might not be the player for you.
One of the niftiest features in aTunes is Last.fm integration. While you can't use the software to play music from Last.fm, you can sign into your account and submit your played song list to Last.fm. aTunes also takes advantage of Last.fm's audioscrobbling service, which means you can see a list of artists that are similar to the one you're listening to in real-time. When available, aTunes will also automatically display album art and song lyrics.
Update: It appears the web site is down, but you can still download aTunes from SourceForge.
There are far too many features to list them all, but here are a few of the cooler ones:
- Karaoke function (which cuts the frequencies typically used by the human voice and lets you sing along at the top of your lungs)
- Tag editor window
- Drag and drop support (drag files from your file system into the player)
- Support for portable devices that can be mounted as a file system
- Search for artists on YouTube, Google Video, Wikipedia
- Subscribe to podcasts
- Built-in CD ripper
- Tracks statistics such as songs played, not played, songs, artists, and albums most played, and last date
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-23-2008 @ 9:12AM
Abdo said...
Those are some nice features.
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6-23-2008 @ 10:00AM
Andrew Adams said...
hm. wonder how this compares to mediamonkey?
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6-23-2008 @ 10:01AM
Andrew Adams said...
hm. wonder how this compares to mediamonkey?
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6-23-2008 @ 10:46AM
Folst said...
i read until ... "and is built on Java"
NEXT!
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6-23-2008 @ 11:08AM
Shashank said...
better than mediamonkey
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6-23-2008 @ 11:10AM
Mimzy said...
This sounds cool, but since I don't particularly enjoy karaoke, there doesn't seem to be a reason to switch from Amarok...
Windows users, however, might think differently.
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6-23-2008 @ 9:44PM
RED_404 said...
Ok other than the Java and the 60mb footprint
I like the interface ++ for the dark theme
great codec support thanks to "mplayer"
but best of all the one-click & extremely fast uninstaller
I wish more programs had an uninstaller like that :-)
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6-23-2008 @ 10:36PM
John said...
Bugy! Can't select folders from My Computer
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6-23-2008 @ 11:20PM
Michael said...
No mention of Songbird?
http://getsongbird.com/
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6-23-2008 @ 11:22PM
JollyBengali said...
I have been searching for an alternative to iTunes on Mac for awhile. This does NOT seem to the one.
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6-25-2008 @ 10:09AM
Holmess said...
Not sure about the phrase "Amarok Killer". I myself don't use amarok, i use media player daemon, but the capabilities of Amarok are not so easy to be imported to other platforms. Anyways i appreciate your candid proposal to use the program but i still doubt the potential to be an Amarok replacement. Anyways thanks.
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6-25-2008 @ 10:13AM
Holmess said...
"Amarok Killer" a little extreme, Amarok's ability to organize to handle humongous databases is almost unparalleled, but can be imitated. The following that Amarok got in the posix community should be linked to extremely self respecting posix users. Nonetheless thanks for the post, like always another good find on DldSqd.
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6-29-2008 @ 2:56AM
headphonist said...
Hey, the site seems to be down due to too much traffic, anyone got a mirror for the download?
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6-29-2008 @ 3:01AM
Bill said...
JAVA? No, thanks. Also, it's not a good sign when one tries to goto the URL for a product and it just brings up a placeholder.
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6-29-2008 @ 3:07AM
Brad Linder said...
You can download aTunes directly from Sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/atunes/
I'm not sure what happened to the product page, but the media player's been getting a lot of attention lately and its possible the site's bandwidth has been exceeded.