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Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013?

Posted by timothy on from the see-I-already-have-a-file-hierarchy dept.

First time accepted submitter cs80 writes "I've been looking high and low for a decent, open-source, cross-platform audio player that can import an existing iTunes library and sort my files based on their ID3 tags. Nightingale, with its iTunes-like interface, would have been the obvious answer, but its file organization feature was pulled for being too buggy. What open-source audio player did you migrate to after dumping iTunes?"

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  1. Re:You could always... by Lisias · · Score: 5, Insightful

    winamp always worked for me. So simple, so tiny...

    So missed. :-(

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  2. Try iTunes ... by psergiu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Try iTunes on OS X.
    It's much harder, better, faster and stronger that the Windows version.

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  3. Re:Never used iTunes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Drag files to the playlist window. I don't need .M3U files, I don't need a huge "library" of anything and everything sorted 5,000 ways, wasting tons of hard drive space and CPU cycles building a database; I just need my files organized the way *I* want.

  4. Re:You could always... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    winamp always worked for me. So simple, so tiny...

    So missed. :-(

    Software whose installers are downloaded to local storage, run locally, and have no dependencies on web services, is never missed. It just works.

  5. Re: Foobar 2000 by phishybongwaters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How exactly is that helpful in anyway? "how can I replace iTunes? " ...."don't use it in the first place". Congrats, you and those like you have made slashdot irrelevant, and a video-less YouTube. Christ the 3rd or forth comment is a racist one. Now tell me I'm gay and we can all walk away happy