Ario Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Ario for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ario and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Ario are foobar2000, Clementine, Audacious and Amarok.

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Ario alternatives page was last updated Nov 13, 2016

VLC Media Player
7719 likes
Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.
169 VLC Media Player alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Media Player
Audio Player
Origin
France
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
BSD
HUAWEI AppGallery
iPad
AppImageHub
Apple Watch
Snapcraft
Google Chrome
Apple TV
Flathub
PortableApps.com
F-Droid
Kindle Fire
Haiku
Android TV
Homebrew
Chocolatey
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foobar2000
1543 likes
Audio player offering MP3, FLAC support, gapless playback, customizable interfaces, CD ripping, advanced tagging, ReplayGain, plugins, and is known for its freeware model, running on various Windows versions with high audio fidelity.
205 foobar2000 alternatives
Cost / License
Free Personal
Proprietary
Application types
Audio Player
Internet Radio
Origin
Poland
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
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Clementine
756 likes
Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...
253 Clementine alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
Audio Player
Media Player
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Haiku
A
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Audacious
301 likes
Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.
137 Audacious alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Audio Player
Media Player
Origin
International
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Haiku
Xfce
A
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Amarok
411 likes
Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.
169 Amarok alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (LGPL-2.1)
Application types
Audio Player
Media Player
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
KDE Plasma
Flathub
Haiku
Flatpak
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DeaDBeeF
199 likes
DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Audio Player
Origin
Denmark
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
KDE Plasma
Cinnamon
GNOME
MATE
Xfce
+4
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Quod Libet
169 likes
A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.
166 Quod Libet alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Audio Player
Media Player
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Debian
Xfce
+6
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gPodder
112 likes
gPodder downloads and manages free audio and video content ("podcasts") for you. Listen directly on your computer or on your mobile devices.
118 gPodder alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
Podcast Player
Podcast Manager
Origin
Austria
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
PortableApps.com
Xfce
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C* Music Player
38 likes
cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.
85 C* Music Player alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Audio Player
Media Player
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
C
A
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Vox Music Player
111 likes
It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.
151 Vox Music Player alternatives
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Application type
Audio Player
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
iPhone
Apple Watch
+6
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Museeks
19 likes
Minimalist cross-platform player offering clean UI, support for multiple formats, playback speed adjustment, cover art, playlists, queue management, shuffle, loop, dark theme, library auto-refresh, sleep mode blocker, and m3u import/export.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Audio Player
Origin
France
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
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aTunes
78 likes
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.
135 aTunes alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Audio Player
Internet Radio
Origin
Spain
EU
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
A
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