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Promote Songbird, maybe. It's the closest thing to a cross platform iTunes replacement.

Is it cross platform? I just clicked on the link on my Mac, and while the screenshots look very much like a Mac, I'm only offered a PC download link and Windows system requirements.

[In case it was a problem with my ad-blocker, I disabled it, but then I got a huge ad with an embedded Download Now button (directly above the Songbird "Free For PC" button) that links to MacKeeper instead.]

It is cross-platform—indeed, one of its pleasant selling points used to be that (on Macs only, I think) it could play FairPlay-DRM'd files just by piggybacking on the libraries that iTunes used to do the same. However, as ahstilde (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11680232) points out, it is officially discontinued as of 2013. The Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_%28software%29 has a nice summary, including a link http://sourceforge.net/projects/songbird.mirror to the Sourceforge page, and to a "community-supported fork" http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngale (which I have never tried).

That hasn't been updated in years, had it?

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