Recommended MP3 player?

Namingweary · Namingweary #1 (**permalink**)

05-24-2008, 09:05 AM

Still fishing out apps for my Mac and I am tired of iTunes adding the songs I play to the library when I don't want it to.

Any suggested MP3 players?

louishen · louishen #2 (**permalink**)

05-24-2008, 09:16 AM

Personally I like iTunes

But the best alternative (as well as supporting open source) is SongBird

www.songbirdnest.com

Juan Largo · Juan Largo #3 (**permalink**)

05-24-2008, 11:02 AM

VLC is good. There's nothing fancy about it, but it's very light on your computer's resources, and it plays many different audio and video formats.

Get it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Namingweary · Namingweary #4 (**permalink**)

05-24-2008, 12:14 PM

Yeah I am now using VLC media player but I can't get it to where all of my .mp3 files open with it. I even "right click" and select OTHER and always use this program, when I select VLC, but it doesn't seem to want to change the other files to VLC.

skaheadpunk · skaheadpunk #5 (**permalink**)

05-24-2008, 03:14 PM

Right click on it and hit 'Get Info'. Under the 'Opens With' tab select VLC and click 'Change All'. That should do it.

xstep · xstep #6 (**permalink**)

05-24-2008, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skaheadpunk

Right click on it and hit 'Get Info'. Under the 'Opens With' tab select VLC and click 'Change All'. That should do it.

Or choose QuickTime. It will play all the media iTunes will too.

OR go into iTunes Preferences and under the Advanced tab and de-select the "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to Library". I think that will stop the file from being copied to the iTunes folders.

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Namingweary #1 (permalink)
Member Since: May 08, 2008 Posts: 76	05-24-2008, 09:05 AM Still fishing out apps for my Mac and I am tired of iTunes adding the songs I play to the library when I don't want it to. Any suggested MP3 players?
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louishen #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 22, 2007 Location: London Posts: 8,648 Mac Specs: Mac Mini Core i7 2012 \| White 2009 MacBook 2 Ghz \| 733 Mhz G4 Quicksilver	05-24-2008, 09:16 AM Personally I like iTunes But the best alternative (as well as supporting open source) is SongBird www.songbirdnest.com
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Namingweary #4 (permalink)
Member Since: May 08, 2008 Posts: 76	05-24-2008, 12:14 PM Yeah I am now using VLC media player but I can't get it to where all of my .mp3 files open with it. I even "right click" and select OTHER and always use this program, when I select VLC, but it doesn't seem to want to change the other files to VLC.
	QUOTE Thanks

skaheadpunk #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 12, 2008 Location: Leicester, England Posts: 1,760 Mac Specs: MacBook, iPod Classic, 8GB 3G iPhone, Time Capsule	05-24-2008, 03:14 PM Right click on it and hit 'Get Info'. Under the 'Opens With' tab select VLC and click 'Change All'. That should do it.
	QUOTE Thanks

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