OS X has been a ghetto for music players for some time. If you dont't like iTunes, you don't really have many good options. Hopefully this will ignite some more competition in that space.
It’s ugly and it has jerky scrolling. There is no way to edit metadata. It fails completely as a music library and there are much better options available if all you need is a player.
It doesn’t even try to innovate.
What I want is a competent and feature rich music library (iTunes is perfect for this) I don’t have to micromanage (iTunes fails at this). There is nothing there.
There's no database that songs have to be added to, it's just whatever the file/folder structure is for your tracks.
One idea I experimented with was using pytagsfs to mount a virtual file system based on ID3 tags. I could never get it to work though, and the last update to the project was 2009 :(
Quicktime 7 also, FWIW, lies about what playback speed it is using. You can drag the slider and then time it and it doesn't play at the speed it's supposed to.
I will admit it's pretty similar to iTunes, but it's cross platform, has some features not in iTunes, and is lacking some iTunes features that really annoy me.
Now, if only it were possible to uninstall iTunes...