The key word here is “most” of your needs. As far as I’ve seen, there’s no single iTunes replacement that can do everything iTunes does. But if your main interest is playing media, or organizing your multimedia library, there are quite a few alternatives available. Related article: How to Move Your iTunes Library to an External Drive If you’re looking for an app to manage your devices, perform backups, and transfer files between devices, there are some good choices for that as well. If you’re looking for a media player to play music and manage your libraries, Swinsian may be a good fit.

Swinsian is easy to set up it can import your existing iTunes music library, and you can set up specific folders for Swinsian to monitor.

(Swinsian displays your media library in a compact but customizable window.) Drop an album or track into one of the folders, and Swinsian will import it into its library for you. Swinsian supports a large number of file formats, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, ALAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WAV, Opus, AC3, AIFF, Musepack (MPC), DSF, and APE.Īnd while being able to play music on your Mac from different file types is helpful, it can be a problem when you want to transfer a music file to your iPod or IOS devices. Swinsian has you covered there, with automatic transcoding of file formats to ones supported by the device you’re moving them to. No need for a separate app to translate file formats. Album art: Swinsian can find and download album art automatically, and display it within the player.Duplicate track finder: If your music library looks anything like mine, the ability to find duplicate tracks and eliminate them may be worth the price of admission alone.Smart playlists: Build new playlists based on a wide range of criteria including rating, artist, title, bit rate, play count, and much more.

Support for cue files or embedded cue information.Swinsian’s interface will remind you of iTunes before it became so bloated with features. The interface is easy to move about in using the music browser simplifies finding music. And the interface is highly customizable, allowing you to rearrange and add information as you see fit. If your main need is for a versatile and easy-to-use music player, Swinsian is a good choice. Its focus is being a music player, and library and playlist manager.įidelia calls itself a premium music player for the Mac. It achieves this by concentrating on the quality of audio playback, the ability to support three audio tool plug-in banks that allow you to select audio units you wish to use, such as a graphic equalizer, peak limiter, compressor, and many more. Fidelia makes use of the Mac’s 22 built-in audio units, as well as supporting other 64-bit audio plugins.

(Fidelia’s player is one of the best sounding and best looking.) Of course, you can also choose to turn the audio units off, for a straight audio path with only the file’s format and bitrate determining sound quality.

Fidelia audio player