aTunes
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 Screenshot of aTunes |
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| Developed by | Alex Aranda et al. |
| Initial release | ? |
| Stable release | 1.9.0 (2008-6-12) [+/−] |
| Written in | Java |
| OS | Windows, Linux, Solaris |
| Platform | Java |
| Available in | English |
| Genre | Audio player |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | www.atunes.org |
aTunes is a free audio player. aTunes supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other formats. aTunes allows users to edit tags, organize music and rip audio cds easily.
[edit] Features
- Player
- Supported formats: MP3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, ape, mpc, mac
- Online radio supported.
- Player engine: mplayer.
- Volume control, mute function.
- Shuffle and repeat options.
- OSD (On-screen display).
- Tags
- Reads MP3, mp4, ogg, wma tags.
- Writes MP3, mp4, ogg, wma tags.
- Reads and shows pictures included in ID3v2 tags.
- Tag editor window.
- Auto tag edition tools: set track number automatically, set genre automatically.
- Some auto tag tools for all repository.
- 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.
- 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.
- Favorites
- Songs, albums or artists can be selected as favorites.
- Favorite elements are shown in the “Favorites” tab in Navigator.
- Internet
- Artist search tool in different web pages: YouTube, Google Video, Wikipedia, etc.
- AudioScrobbler 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 lyric.
- Podcasts
- Subscribe to your favorite podcasts and listen in aTunes.
- Audio CD
- aTunes includes a CD ripper tool, using cdda2wav, LAME, FLAC and oggenc. Just put an audio CD on your computer, and select “Import CD” in the “Tools” menu. You can select which tracks rip, and get track names and cover automatically from Amazon.
- 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 colors by changing theme.
- Full Screen Mode.
- Languages
- English
- French
- Spanish
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Traditional Chinese
- Simplified Chinese
- Portuguese
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Slovak
- Greek
- Czech
- Norwegian
- Turkish
- Arabic
- Hungarian
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Home Page - atunes.org
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