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aTunes is one of the free audio players out there with decent music capabilities .

aTunes defines itself as full featured audio player and organizer . It has a cool looking interface with three different columns. The left most column is where you can browse and select songs to play, the middle is your playlist and audio player while the right most column shows you the the extra details on what’s being played.

Once aTunes is installed, it will ask you to add music folders that you want to be added to its repository/library. To make things much simpler, you can select “My Computer” to instruct aTunes to automatically find and index all of the music files inside your hard disk.

aTunes Features

• Intuitive, three column “Navigator” interface makes it easy to quickly access music files by categories.
• Drag and drop support between Windows Explorer and aTunes.
• Supports for various music formats including mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4 with karaoke function and on-screen display of song titles.
• Able to play online radio - comes with a few default internet radio stations.

• Manual and automatic tagging support - read and writes tags for these audio formats: mp3, ogg, mp3, wma, ra, rm. You can also search for music files using specific tags.

• Able to display pictures inside ID3v3 tag format.
• Filter support for quick, accurate music file search.
• Able to cater multiple playlist at one time with thousands of songs each.
• Able to save and open m3u based playlist format.
• Portable device support - open, save and sync music files between your audio players and aTunes seamlessly.
• Favorites - mark your favorite tunes to find and play it quickly later in the future.
• AudioCobbler - get similar artist / other tracks / album cover from the web based on current songs played in aTunes.

• Last.fm integration - automatic update of your Last.fm profile with songs played in aTunes.
• Search video for songs being played in Youtube or other video sites.
• Podcast support - subscribe, download and play audio podcast directly into aTunes.
• CD ripper tool via Tools -> Import CD function.
• statistics tells you about your listening habits based on songs played, songs that never played, most played songs, most played artist and more.

• Can be minimized to system tray or viewed full screen.