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Amua: cool, minimal Last.fm player for Mac
by Jay Hathaway Mar 5th 2009 at 1:00PM
I didn't realize it at first, but Amua uses iTunes to stream songs from Last.fm. Not a big deal to me, since I have iTunes open 90% of the time I'm on my Mac. If iTunes is a dealbreaker for you, then you might need to find yourself a different player. There are reasons to stick with Amua: it hardly uses any system resources, and it supports Growl. The main improvement I'd like to see would be hotkeys for the play/pause/skip functions. The iTunes hotkeys will stop Amua, but won't get it going again or skip to the next track on Last.fm.
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Wolfman K 42 said 4:38PM on 3-05-2009
Running through itunes is actually a plus for me. This allows the streamed last.fm music to be run through SRS iWOW to enhance the audio. This is something I always missed when listening to last.fm on my Mac.
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