iTunes AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Media Players for Mac

There are many alternatives to iTunes for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Mac Media Player alternative is Clementine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and 14 are Media Players available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Media Player alternatives to iTunes are Audacious, Amarok, Quod Libet and Dopamine.

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  1. Clementine icon
     755 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...

    255 Clementine alternatives

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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
  2. Audacious icon
     300 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.

    135 Audacious alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Haiku
    • Xfce
     
  3. Amarok icon
     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

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    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
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    • Flatpak
     
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    Amarok vs iTunes Comments
    Hasan Yildiz
    Positive
    0

    Difficult to use. It's confusing.

    ewanneil
    Negative
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    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
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    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
  4. Quod Libet icon
     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.

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    Quod Libet vs iTunes Comments
    Guest
    Positive
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    The hi hat and cymbals on Mr Mister's "we belong to no one" are clearer than foobar the bass is deep but not annoying the entire playback of this song is extremely clear.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Quod Libet is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Quod Libet is CustomizableiTunes is not according to our users
  5. Dopamine icon
     62 likes

    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    67 Dopamine alternatives

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  6. Crates icon
     22 likes

    Crates is a user-focused, next generation music app, that merges all user’s music collections into one, enables them to own their data, listen from any source and discover new music recommended by the community.

    50 Crates alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  7. JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer.

    55 JRiver Media Center alternatives

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    • Paid
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    JRiver Media Center vs iTunes Comments
    Guest
    Positive
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    Its way beyond better than itunes.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    I like it because is what iTunes should have become after all of these years.

    I personally don't like the Music App anymore. Is a very bad option for any music lover with a HUGE library as in my case.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • JRiver Media Center is Paid and ProprietaryiTunes is Free and Proprietary
  8. 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.

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  9. Plexamp icon
     12 likes

    Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.

    148 Plexamp alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. RealPlayer icon
     48 likes

    RealPlayer with RealTimes (aka “RealPlayer” for short) still includes the legacy features, such as Video Player, Downloader, Converter, Organizer and Web Videos. It also includes RealTimes features, such as Photos and RealTimes Stories, the automatic video collage feature.

    125 RealPlayer alternatives

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    • Freemium
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  11. Musique icon
     32 likes

    Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean interface that keeps you focused on what really matters: music.

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  12. jmc icon
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    jmc is an elegant and bloat-free media player and management app for macOS. It is modeled after early versions of iTunes, featuring a persistent album art view and a functional user interface. The entire interface is geared toward intuitiveness, efficiency, and performance...

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