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The best alternative to iTunes is MusicBee. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try MusicBee or Clementine. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and 18 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to iTunes are Amarok, jetAudio, Swinsian and aTunes.

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  1. MusicBee icon

    MusicBee

     591 likes

    Offers library and playlist management, auto folder monitoring, podcast downloads, web radio, advanced tagging, custom ID3 tags, CD ripping with validation, syncing to iPods, iPhones, MTP, USB, converts and normalizes audio, fetches album art and tags from web.

    127 MusicBee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    MusicBee vs iTunes Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    John Fastman
    1

    The best non-open source app for Windows that plays music. Great at organizing music collections and even suggests local gigs based on bands you have stored in your library. But I would go for an open source alternative, and MusicBee doesn't help me have the same library on non-Windows machines.

    Top Negative Comment
    Robert Fisher
    -1

    Not really like iTunes at all. You can't sync and set device preferences for your iPhone with this program.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    1

    A similar interface, supports using folders as playlists so in that sense it's even better than itunes, many beautiful themes, lightweight. Musicbee feels like home, coming from itunes.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 13 comments
    • MusicBee is Free Personal and ProprietaryiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • MusicBee is Customizable and LightweightiTunes is not according to our users
  2. Clementine icon

    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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    Clementine vs iTunes Comments
    glengaldine
    Positive
    2

    Really good. Started to use it in my Linux years (mostly on Arch), and using it still on macOS. Interface is a bit chaotic, but it's much better then iTunes so far.

    Guest
    Positive
    2

    Amazing playback and sync capabilites. Especially great for streaming or handling big music libraries.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    phenn
    Positive
    1

    Easy to use. Doesn't nag constantly.

    • Clementine is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Clementine is Lightweight and Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users
  4. AIMP icon

    AIMP

     881 likes

    Feature-rich audio player for Windows and Android supporting diverse codecs and interfaces. Includes conversion tools, skins, plugins, and custom equalizer for enhanced audio streaming and podcast playback.

    350 AIMP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • PortableApps.com
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  5. Amarok icon

    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
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    Amarok vs iTunes Comments
    Hasan Yildiz
    Positive
    0

    Difficult to use. It's confusing.

    ewanneil
    Negative
    0

    Not really up to the job. It made a total mess of my collection of around 40k tracks. I couldn't find anything. For example, it stuck lots of my single artist albums into "various" and missed out a whole host of second discs from double albums. To make matters worse it crashed or failed to respond more often than not. I think iTunes is pretty poor but this is considerably worse.

    Guest
    Negative
    -29

    No music store. Also not available for Mac. GPL, which is copyleft, and I really don't care for copyleft. I care more for open source, but I most care that it's free. I don't hate open-source though. Any other software licensed under MIT or BSD?

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Amarok is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Amarok is Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users
  6. jetAudio icon

    jetAudio

     55 likes

    JetAudio is integrated, multimedia software made of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats.

    115 jetAudio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  7. Swinsian icon

    Swinsian

     27 likes

    Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries.

    151 Swinsian alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Swinsian vs iTunes Comments
    Alec Kinnear
    Positive
    0

    Swinsian just works. You add music files to it and it plays them. Doesn't move them, doesn't crash, doesn't complain. Very easy to build playlists which also don't just disappear. Swinsian just helps you listen to music in a simple and easy environment, while allowing you to build playlists as you go.

    • Swinsian is Paid and ProprietaryiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Swinsian is LightweightiTunes is not according to our users
  9. aTunes icon

    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Guayadeque icon

    Guayadeque

     43 likes

    Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is a full featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework. Using it, Guayadeque has all the format support that entails.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. Roon icon

    Roon

     9 likes

    Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.

    230 Roon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Synology C2
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  12. Helium Music Manager icon

    Helium Music Manager

     29 likes

    A music cataloger, tag editor, cd ripper, audio converter, mp3 and flac analyzer, duplicate finder, player and music scrobbler - all in one.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • iPhone
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  13. Audio Catalog icon

    Audio Catalog

     3 likes

    Audio Catalog is a music manager that helps you organize your music collection.

    Features:

    • Supports 14 audio formats: MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, AC3, APE, WAV, AAC, MPC, SPX, TTA, WV, VQF and audio CDs (CDA).

    • Import catalog from playlist (M3U, PLS, WPL), CSV, XLS-files.

    • Rename f.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Jajuk icon

    Jajuk

     26 likes

    Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music using Java. It is a full-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections. Using multiple perspectives, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide different ways to perform the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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