aTunes

 

If you like the look and feel of iTunes, but don’t like it’s ‘take over your system’ style approach, an alternate you might want to take a look at is the open source aTunes.

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.

It Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, m4a, ra, rm, cue and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

For the most part, aTunes handles all the player functions you would expect but has a strikingly similar look to iTunes. As stated, aTunes works on any operating systems so if you are looking for a music player, give it a try.

aTunes is available with different colour themes.

“aTunes  is an nice alternative software that is developed to help you manage and play most media files.”

Features:

Player

• Supported formats: mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, m4a, ra, rm, cue.
• Online radio supported.
• Player engine: mplayer for all environments, xine for Linux systems.
• Volume control, mute function.
• Karaoke function.
• Equalizer.
• Normalization.
• Shuffle and repeat options.
• OSD (On-screen display)
• Hotkeys

Tags:

• Reads mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4, ra, rm tags.
• Writes mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4 tags.
• Reads and shows pictures included in ID3v2 tags.
• Tag editor window.
• Auto tag edition tools: set track number, genre, lyrics and so on automatically.
• Some auto tag tools for all repository.
• Extended search function.

Navigator:

• Allows users to view music categorized by artist, album or genre in a hierarchy tree, or by folders.
• Fast access to songs and albums.
• Filter option to find easily artists, albums or genres.
• Cover Navigator.

Playlist:

• Support for huge playlist, with thousand of songs.
• Support for multiple playlists at the same time.
• Shows multiple columns: title, artist, album, genre, length, track number…
• Can be sorted by any of the columns.
• Columns can be hidden for simplicity.
• Support for open or save m3u playlists.
• Full Drag-and-Drop support. Songs can be dragged from the navigator or from the OS file system.
• Can be filtered.

Device view:

• Connect your portable player or anything that could be mounted as a file system, and view in aTunes, copy to repository, synchronize, etc.

Favourites:

• Songs, albums or artists can be selected as favourites.
• Favourite elements are shown in the “Favourites” tab in Navigator.

Internet:

• Artist search tool in different web pages: YouTube, Google Video , Wikipedia, etc.
• Last.fm information: when a song is being played, album information, artist albums and similar artists are shown.
• Last.fm profile update: songs played are submitted to your Last.fm profile
• Lyrics information: when a song is being played, automatically aTunes shows lyrics.
• Related videos at YouTube.

Podcasts:

• Subscribe your favorite podcast feeds and listen them in aTunes.
• Download podcast feed entries to your hard disk.

Audio CD:

• aTunes includes a cd ripper tool, using cdda2wav, lame, flac and oggenc. Just put an audio cd into your computer, and select “Import CD” in the “Tools” menu. You can select which tracks to rip, and get track names automatically from Amazon.
• Support for optional Nero AAC encoder. See Adding the Nero AAC encoder
• Support for optional FAAC encoder (except Windows OS)
• Support for CDParanoia on Mac OS X and Linux (limited functionality)

Statistics:

• Songs played, songs never played.
• Songs most played.
• Album most played.
• Artist most played.
• Last date of play.

GUI:

• Standard view with all controls and features.
• Multi window view. Every window element (navigator, playlist, context information) is shown as a separate window. Every window can be located and / or arranged as you want.
• System tray icon to control player
• Themes support: you can change aTunes colours by changing theme
• Full Screen Mode.

Supported languages:

• Arabic,Brazilian,Portuguese,Catalan,Croatian,Czech,Danish,Dutch,English,
• French,Galician,,German,Hungarian,Italian,Norwegian,Polish,Portuguese,Russian,
• Slovak,Spanish,Swedish,Ukrainian.

The Following languages below need a translation update:

• Greek
• Turkish
• Japanese
• Traditional chinese
• Simplified chinese

please feel free to help the software publisher in by Contributing HERE

User Manuel:

• The user Manuel can be found online HERE

 

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OS Requirements:

Win XP/Vista//Win 7

Linux and Unix OS/

Mac OS X

Rating: 4.3/5 (3 votes cast)