aTunes for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffApril 6, 2020

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.

What’s new in version 3.1.2

Version 3.1.2 fixes some minor bugs.

aTunes for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: July 11, 2014

Latest update: April 6, 2020

Version: 3.1.2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows NT
Windows 95
Windows ME
Windows 98
Windows 10
Windows 7
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 2000

Additional Requirements: Java 6 virtual machine

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 26,896

Downloads Last Week: 1

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User Reviews

3.1/5

15 User Votes

Awesome Media Jukebox
RulandasSeptember 13, 2011
Pros
Seems good to me. The feature that made me like this jukebox more then others is showing the lyrics of the song being played... thats awesome idea. also plays much more formats then some ******* piece of **** software that it looks alike...
Cons
you would always want something more
Summary
May be great for Apples, not my Vista machine
Shery POctober 6, 2010
Pros
It allows you to use your iPod and iPhone
Cons
When I UPGRADE, I have a mess to clean up. I wish there were an alternative to this piece of junk. It finally upgrades iTunes, then QT must be uninstalled-reinstalled. It is a resource hog, it syncs stuff already on, it doesn't delete from my iPhone
Summary
Impossible
Sounds better in theory than in practice.
18cdbob18August 2, 2010
Pros
Sounds great in two ways (a) seems to get the best out of your audio card, and (b) by focusing only on audio features, this player/tagger sounds like it can concentrate on doing a handful of things well.
Cons
Hard to tell after just a few hours working with it. Lots of online info, but much of it reads less like a tutorial than a sales pitch -- telling you what it can do rather than how to do it the easiest way. Java-basics also need better explanation.
Summary
I love its audio-only focus but never having mastered a Java-based program before, I will only make this my primary music app if the time needed to learn it turns out to be worth it. The architecture behind aTunes will fascinate programmers. But as a person just interested in organizing my music in a faster manner, this may or may not be a dazzler for me. I am hopeful but not convinced.
Very good music manager-player
BMENONJuly 20, 2009
Pros
An impressively useful and friendly audio player and music organizer.Those who used Real Player,iTunes or Songbird will find lots of plus-points in aTunes(new vn.1.13.2).The main attraction is its very ease to use UI.Its "Magma" skin is spectacular.
Cons
Nothing found so far,except that it takes around 70000K of memory,but it is normal for a variety entertainment software with many features to run.
Summary
It is a very good, free GPL entertainment software.aTunes has better easy-to-understand and user-manageable features ,when compared to the open-source Songbird and other similar ones.Sound output is also found normal when compared with other such Players.
Disappointing
welshlionJune 19, 2009
Pros
Looks good, compiles the library quickly and efficiently.
Cons
Sounds awful...the graphic equaliser is a complete waste of time.
Summary
If it wasn't for the lack of quality when playing music this would be worthy of the 5 stars this site's editors gave it!
cannot download
randysvhFebruary 9, 2009
Pros
Well it is likely this is a great product, but when you cannot download the program it is very hard to test or evaluate it value or merits. When attempting to download the program it comes up as a 3 with no extension of any kind.
Cons
unknown - other than unable to test
Summary
cannot download a "3"<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Nov 21, 2009<p/>once i managed to download and install this program it makes for a good replacement of the itunes. It is unfortunate that when i originally tried to download this file it did not work. Now, it downloads, installs, and works well as designed. Not sure if i like the Java requirement, but otherwise seems to be a good tool. I have not used this with an ipod and not likely will any time soon. If you are looking for an apple itunes alternative, give it a try. randy
Great Player
lostkiwiJanuary 21, 2009
Pros
Catalogued 9,000 songs quickly. Love the window with lyrics, albums and similar music. Easy to find duplicate songs and delete them. Lyric grabbing was fast and good to see. Works well on Windows 2000.
Cons
Editing song titles and info leaves a bit to be desired, iTunes does this much better. The ability to copy lyrics and paste into the lyric box when tagging would be good.
Summary
Best open source/freeware program that I have tried so far, doesn't lock up and seems cleaner than iTunes. Ability to use with iPod would be great. Will be interesting to see improvements to editing and also a mini player would be good. Very happy.
Great program
tomahawknation74January 20, 2009
Pros
Does what it is suppose to do. Handles media and plays back. Works well with my mp3 player.
Cons
Nothing. its sweet.
Summary
I like it because it gives me a cheap, simple alternative to itunes. itunes has become a little bloated.
Excellent player
growlboyJanuary 12, 2009
Pros
It has everything. I've especially like the window with lyrics and radio stations.
Cons
California radio station is buggy.
Summary
Best jukebox I've ever used
netmasterjohnAugust 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 ability to display complete band history, similar songs/albums, videos from youtube and more.

Developer’s Description

Manage your large music collection with this iTunes alternative.

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.