aTunes 1.9

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.0 stars (out of 12 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  10,584

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  June 18, 2008

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version aTunes 1.11.0 aTunes 1.9 aTunes 1.8.3 aTunes 1.8.1 aTunes .c

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Publisher's description of aTunes 1.9

aTunes is a fully-featured audio player and manager, with ripping and encoding tools included. aTunes is coded in Java programming language (Java 5), using Swing, making it a highly portable piece of software.

Version 1.9 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Editor's review of aTunes 1.9

• 5.0 stars

• "Open-source audio"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: aTunes 1.9

When we tested aTunes, the fast installation was followed by shockingly sluggish tree navigation, required to add our song library. Fortunately, the subsequent scan was flawless, handling 7,500 tracks in about 10 minutes. So in music terms, the show started off with some bad feedback, but then aTunes really got rockin'.

The tabbed interface keeps the various panes from getting too cluttered, managing both primary and secondary information elegantly. Icons just below the Menubar let users hide the AudioScrobbler, the Navigator, and the Song properties windows, which makes the UI far more customizable than it might seem. The impressively useful AudioScrobbler pane surfaces nearly all secondary song information, making it easier to discover an artist's biographical details, using tabs to prevent clutter and keep track lists and song lyrics organized. Built-in links encourage discovery of similar songs and related videos on YouTube.

aTunes comes with 27 skins, has built-in Last.fm and various other Internet radio station support, and has decent podcast-catching abilities. Customization via Preferences can change the layout to multiple windows, and Tooltips, Smart Sorting, and even the tabs themselves can be deactivated. Metatag editing and autotagging work well, and we liked the Favorites feature, which creates an automatic playlist of your songs, albums, and artists tagged as such.

There is room for improvement. MP3 player support exists, but only on portable devices that behave like external hard drives. Those that utilize fancy firmware--like the iPod--get ignored. Also, Linux and Mac users might find the installation to be too much work, with various components not bundled into the executable. aTunes would benefit from search-as-you-type, too. Even with those problems, though, aTunes doesn't miss a beat and is easily one of the best jukeboxes around.

User reviews of aTunes 1.9

• Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 12 votes
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• 2 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: aTunes 1.9

  "Hey there black hole...."

  by chonkers on August 5, 2008

  Pros: always keen to try a new jukebox, but am I doing something wrong....HPSP1, Java6 R7...yup....so let's go...er no.

  for some odd reason it does not load, recognise or scan music files at all, ogg, mp3, wma you name it...tried left & right clicking to add but no go here.

  tried the forums for a solution, cos the interface is cool & the gang & was really keen to give it a shot, not a lot to go on there...Soooo....I'l stick to me usual players thanks dudes but perhaps in a few months when it's less buggy I guess..

  good luck no!

  Cons: See above...

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• 4 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: aTunes 1.9

  "Free iTunes clone."

  by chris_sundown13 on July 25, 2008

  Pros: Pull's album art, lyrics, singers info all from the internet and if not already on the songs ID tag it can add it. It eaven will give lyrics for streaming video. Has pre-loaded radio stations and can ad your own. Have not yet tried ripping music or playing CD's with it. Is multi platformed was created useing java.

  Cons: Needs to be able to stream useing Pandora and AOL Music videos and music.

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• 1 stars

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: aTunes 1.9

  "not good"

  by shamsali0216 on August 7, 2008

  Pros: it has great designs and lots of features

  Cons: other stuff is better...when getting songs it takes forever...and it it doubled almost all of my music when being added and when uninstalling it wudnt wouldnt work...

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• 4 stars

  Version: aTunes 1.9

  "Great iTunes Alternative. But remember - this is GPL!!"

  on October 30, 2008

  Pros: Great *free* iTunes alternative. Nice interface. Displays album art, lyrics, etc.
  Easily managed song lists. Connects with my ipod with little or no problems.

  Cons: A bit of a resource hog. Limited "right-click" options.

  Summary: This program does not deserve the rep some users have given it. I was looking for a program that does not possess my system such as iTunes does and this one works rather well.
  
  But remember people: **This is open source software**!! aka... read more >>

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• 5 stars

  Version: aTunes 1.9

  "Best jukebox I've ever used"

  by netmasterjohn on August 10, 2008

  Pros: I'm not sure what's up with all of the negative reviews - this is the best jukebox I've ever used - simple installation, easy tag editing, easy sorting and organizing of playlists, automatic lyric display, one click video finding plus loads more...

  Cons: None that I have found yet

  Summary: Awesome software - well worth installing - handled my collection flawlessly, allowed me to finally clean up all the tags on my MP3s quickly and easily and it's great for a party with simple playlist creation and lyric display - along with the abilit... read more >>

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