aTunes
You’ve definitely heard of Songbird if you hang out here enough, but have you heard of aTunes. I just did a few days ago by way of the Sourceforge.net. It’s based on Java and despite that, is actually quite fast. It has a nice interface and a load of features that you would come to expect out of a media player. It runs much smoother than Songbird.
The crucial difference between the two is that Songbird is a media player/web browser and that aTunes just goes for being a media player. I’m definitely not going to ditch the ‘bird, but while waiting for the ‘bird to mature this will be a great media player and I’ll be happy to hold the hand of the winner in the end when that decision is made.
