aTunes - free audio player and music manager

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager. aTunes can run on Windows, Linux and Unix systems.

aTunes can play mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs. Users can view music categorized by artist, album or genre in a hierarchy tree, or by folders.

This iTunes alternative allow you to subscribe your favorite podcast feeds and listen them in aTunes and download podcast feed entries to your computer hard disk.

aTunes can read mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4, ra, rm tags, and write mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4 tags.

The developer’s Web site:  www.atunes.org

There’s a lot going on in this iTunes competitor. It’s got some failings, notably no plans for firmware-based MP3 player support. That means no iPods or Zunes allowed. aTunes does offer excellent support for players that behave like external hard drives, simply playing songs out of a folder tree similar to the one on your computer. The rest of the program is digital jukebox gold. 

The tabbed interface keeps the panes from getting cluttered, managing both primary and secondary information elegantly. Icons just below the Menubar hide the AudioScrobbler, the Navigator, and the Song properties windows, making the UI far more customizable than it might seem.

The AudioScrobbler pane surfaces nearly all secondary song information, including an artist’s biographical details, using tabs to keep it all organized. Built-in links encourage music and video discovery. There’s also 27 skins, built-in support for Last.fm and Internet radio stations, and decent podcast-catching abilities. In short, aTunes doesn’t miss a beat and is easily one of the best jukeboxes around.