mallumax writes "The truth is : iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on linux and windows.A feature as basic as monitoring a folder and adding the latest music files to library is unavailable in iTunes. There are no plugins or themes. Despite the many faults many of us continued to use iTunes because of the lack of options available. But today the wait is finally over. Not one, but two music players have become credible contenders.
Songbird: An open source music player which has been in the works for more than 2 years has finally released its 1.0 Release Candidate builds. The team behind Songbird have members which who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo Music Engine. It has support for extensions and themes(feathers in songbird parlance).
Amarok: The undisputed champion among linux music players is finally coming to OS X thanks to due KDE 4 being ported to OS X. Amarok developer Leo Franchi has been able to run a Amarok on OS X natively. So we can expect a reasonably stable Amarok to hit OS X in a few months time.
Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."
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