Itunes remote alternative drivers#
Itunes remote alternative upgrade#
Itunes remote alternative tv#

Personally, I prefer to browse my movies and podcasts in iTunes, so I gave Ecoute 2.0 a spin as a music player.

Itunes remote alternative tv#

Just like you’re probably used to if you ran Ecoute in the past, this app provides an alternative view of music stored in iTunes, but offers you the possibility to check on Movies, TV Shows and Podcasts as well.

Itunes remote alternative upgrade#

Ecoute 2.0 depends on iTunes, but it adds great value while giving you a reason to stay out of Apple’s software at the same time.Įcoute 2.0 is a free upgrade for existing users and it’s sold at the same price of the old version, which is $10.

It comes with a neat desktop widget for quick play / pause actions, but it’s also got its dedicated interface. It automatically finds a user’s iTunes library file and takes content from there. Ecoute is a well-known music player for OS X that plays music from iTunes, but doesn’t require you to keep iTunes running in the background. So did Ecoute 1.0, and so does the just-released Ecoute 2.0. Coversutra, Bowtie: they are two popular iTunes controllers for OS X that have gained support for other features such as last.fm scrobbling and iOS remote streaming. They fetch a user’s library, take the music out of it and display it into a minimal, sometimes non-existent, user interface. In spite of iTunes becoming many people’s less used music player over time, the apps that have surfaced in the past years that allow us to just play music are, in most cases, nothing but standalone iTunes controllers that strip away the clutter and focus on albums, artists and songs. And I understand the position of the users and developers that first thought about jumping out of iTunes: why would one need to stare at iTunes and all its features and options all the time, when you just need to listen to some music? What began as a hobby for a limited number of users (“let’s not use iTunes for music”) evolved into a real segment of a market willing to keep iTunes closed to listen to music libraries. And as iTunes grew bigger to accommodate apps, books, podcasts and just about anything you can put on an iPhone or iPod, thousands of users and even more developers started feeling the need of a minimal music player, again. Since Apple shipped its very own music player and digital hub years ago, many developers have tried to come up with original solutions for all those who couldn’t stand iTunes. It even supports add-ons for extra functionality.Just like any other alternative to iTunes on the Mac, Ecoute has been around for a while. It lets you move around interface elements to customize it just the way you want, and even has a few different skins (though the skinning community isn’t as active as it once was). Its tagging features are second to none, letting you auto-tag your music or meticulously fill out the metadata with its robust tag editor. It may be a little slower than MusicBee for normal-sized libraries, due to the style of database it uses, but if your library is enormous, it will excel when other players fail.

Itunes remote alternative drivers#

(You still need iTunes installed, but you never have to open it-MediaMonkey just needs the drivers that come with it.)Īpart from syncing, MediaMonkey excels at organizing the heck out of large, unweildy libraries. Why? Because MediaMonkey is one of the only music players that can sync your music to iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads. I use our second favorite pick, MediaMonkey, which is arguably more of a true iTunes replacement. MediaMonkey: Perfect for iOS Users and Super Large Librariesĭespite the glowing review above, I don’t actually use MusicBee myself.