iTunes Alternatives

    iTunes is described as 'is the best way to organize and enjoy the music, movies, and TV shows you already have — and shop for the ones you want to get' and is a leading Audio Player in the Audio & Music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to iTunes for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone. Most alternatives are Audio , Internet Radios and Media Players. The best alternative is MusicBee. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Clementine or foobar2000. Other great apps like iTunes are AIMP (Free), Strawberry (Free, Open Source), MediaMonkey (Freemium) and Winamp (Freemium).

    This page was last updated Nov 6, 2021
    1. MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.
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      MusicBee vs iTunes opinions
      Almost everyone thinks MusicBee is a great alternative to iTunes.
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      JohnFastman 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 positive comment  almost 5 years ago

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      nadinenb Minimalist user interface + fast synchronization of all PC music (including Windows Media and iTunes libraries options) upon first use.
      Top positive comment  almost 5 years ago

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      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.
      Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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      There are a lot of customisation options, if you're interested in that. There are many skins, and you could also make your own skin if you know how to. MusicBee also has auto tag options, which is useful if you don't wanna do all that work. You can also organise your music however you'd like. There's a music explorer tab where It even suggests similar artists you might've not even heard of.
      Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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      Best music organizer out there
      Positive comment • over 2 years ago

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      Well developed, massive customization and features available (but still extremely lightweight and quick!), similar to foobar out of the box. I maintain a massive collection of digital recordings, and after using every media player through the years, I find myself setting MusicBee up on each of my new computers.
      Positive comment • about 3 years ago

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      Layout is fully adjustable, soundcloud integration
      Positive comment • over 4 years ago

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    2. Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.

      Discontinued

      The latest version is from 2016.
      Source: https://www.clementine-player.org/#news

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      Clementine vs iTunes opinions
      Most users think Clementine is a great alternative to iTunes.
      glengaldine 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.
      Positive comment • over 3 years ago

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      Amazing playback and sync capabilites. Especially great for streaming or handling big music libraries.
      Positive comment • almost 5 years ago

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      phenn Easy to use. Doesn't nag constantly.
      Positive comment • about 4 years ago

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    4. foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Main features Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
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      Most users think foobar2000 is a great alternative to iTunes.
      ccier7u87wl2pvvz7o Mac version is not currently under active development
      Negative comment • over 3 years ago

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      mecube Nice Library managment, support for lot of formats
      Positive comment • over 3 years ago

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    5. AIMP is powerful free audio player for Windows OS that supports for local files, NAS, clouds, and podcasts. Additionally, it includes powerful tools to operate with audio files.
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      Most users think AIMP is a great alternative to iTunes.
    6. Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.
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      Fork from Clementine which was excellent.
      Positive comment • 11 months ago

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    8. MediaMonkey is a music player and a music library manager with support for 50,000+ files and many features for organizing, tagging, converting and burning your music. It also has advanced podcasting and syncing features.
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      MediaMonkey vs iTunes opinions
      Almost everyone thinks MediaMonkey is a great alternative to iTunes.
      Great way to store and sort your music library, create playlists.
      Positive comment • about 2 years ago

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      ndlinn Probably the only app I’ve encountered that currently does all that iTunes does and more, but the layout is much more cumbersome and clunky and will take some serious getting used-to.
      Positive comment • over 2 years ago

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      Better in all aspects: collection management, tag management, ripping and converting, art finder, etc.
      Positive comment • over 4 years ago

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    9. Winamp is a media player for Windows developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to Radionomy in January 2014.
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      Winamp vs iTunes opinions
      Some users think Winamp is a great alternative to iTunes, some don't.
      similar functionality basically
      Positive comment • about 6 years ago

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    11. Discover the world's most powerful podcast player. Pocket Casts has all the podcasts you know & love; over 300k. Find Trending, Most Popular podcasts & more.
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      Most users think Pocket Casts is a great alternative to iTunes.
      ccier7u87wl2pvvz7o It's just a podcast player
      Negative comment • 25 days ago

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    12. Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp.
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