Comments on: iTunes Alternative On The Mac: Songbird vs Banshee

By: RoTimi Waddy

RoTimi Waddy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:56:13 +0000

I appreciate the information provided in this post. I have been comparing mac Itunes alternatives for a while now and am satisfied with the suggestions posted here. Keep up the good work and happy blogging

By: Alxe

Alxe — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:47:32 +0000

Forgive me, but what's so wrong of a designer in a Linux OS?

By: rambazamba

rambazamba — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:10:38 +0000

songbird is a good application but more resource hungry than itunes. i compared ram and cpu-usage with my 40GB library in idle and playing-mode. itunes on the mac is the best at the moment.

if anyone want a lightweight player without the librarystuff, try cog. if you prefer to have a library, use itunes on the mac – performance-wise still the best solution.

if songbird or banshee would be native applications…

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:59:49 +0000

Another alternative for Windows is CopyTrans Manager. I like it because it is very light and fast.. and of course free: www.copytrans.net/manager.php

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:59:43 +0000

I have 25,000 songs and Songbird just sits there for minutes when I dare to search for anything. Amarok 2.0 was supposed to run on OS X and Windows, but these ports are like vaporware for 2 years.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:02:51 +0000

Songbird has good looks? Surely you are joking. It looks like it was designed by engineers using Linux and it probably was. *sigh*

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:30:27 +0000

I'd point out that both run on Linux as well. However, I think the article's intent was to see if either could be a viable alternative to iTunes on a Mac, so they were reviewed from the perspective of a Mac user.

By: Steven Bengtson

Steven Bengtson — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:09:53 +0000

I find the lack of clarity in this article disturbing regarding Songbird.
1. Album Art Manager is actually a discontinued Add On as it is being integrated into the core application (this is noted on the add on site [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:11:13 +0000

> A feature that we long for in iTunes, Folder-watch Erm… "Folder watch" is a built in Feature of Mac OS X and iTunes is a very good (perhaps the best) scriptable Mac-App. See here: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/folderactions.html http://scriptbuilders.net/files/autoimporttoitune... http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/folderaction...

By: James Joens

James Joens — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:53:39 +0000

Itunes is Dabomb! Why would anyone want an alternative http://www.privacy.de.tc

By: Obvious guy

Obvious guy — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:21:14 +0000

OSS. When will you ever learn? Portability is for canoes.

Design an app for a single platform. Not a crap for every platform. Make it OSS, if you will, and share absolutely essential code like something the equivalent of Apple's Genius. But, if 80% of an application is about the GUI, then abstracting that away is moronic.

I do dislike iTunes DRM stuff, but as a result, I simply don't shop from iTunes store. But, by god, I will never ever run these applications by principle unless iTunes implements the most draconian restrictions.

By: bigbluealien

bigbluealien — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:54:13 +0000

It is possible, although very tricky, buggy and sometimes ugly, to get Amarok and Rhythmbox running on Mac. For Amarok see here http://mac.kde.org/ .Rhythmbox is much harder and you'll have to hunt around a bit for that.