Alternative music players for Mac

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Note: From time to time I add newly found players to this page. If you have a suggestion, please let me know.

Tiny Player for Mac

  • First and obvious choice
  • Free

Vox

  • Subscription based, from $4.99 / month
  • Cloud storage service

Swinsian

  • $19.95

Tomahawk

  • Hub for online sources

Audio Playr

  • $8.99

Cog

  • Open source

VLC

  • Primarily a video player, but has a playlist and handles audio as well

Bahamut

  • Open source

jmc

  • Open source, media manager

Plexamp

Webamp

Nighthawk

  • Electron based
  • Open source
  • Drag & drop breaks it

foobar2000 for Mac

Doppler

  • iPhone and Mac apps
  • Sync support
  • Artwork search
  • Organization helpers
  • One time purchase

Repro 1.5

Repro

Repro version 1.5 is out now.

The most important addition is the online gallery. Now it’s really easy to share your before-and-after photos, directly from the app.

There’s a nice interactive slider on the page that allows people to switch between the two pictures.

 

Tiny Player 1.0.6

Tiny Player

Tiny Player version 1.0.6 is out now. This update brings the following improvements:

• Support seeking from Command Center
• Improved seeking precision
• Enable remote playback controls
• Add way to download music back to your computer
• Upload widget now accepts AIFF files

Tiny Player for Mac 1.1

Tiny Player for Mac

Tiny Player for Mac version 1.1 is out now. This update brings the following improvements:

  • Track metadata such as title/album/artist info is now cached so loading tracks the second time or after a restart should be much quicker.
  • Starting with this version, Tiny Player will internally keep history of all played tracks. The records are not used yet but a future version could upload them to Last.FM or show some interesting statistics.
  • Quite a few issues have been fixed.

Thanks for using Tiny Player.