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Comment by denzil_correa | Hacker News Reader

IMO, the difference here is that Apple has iTunes - a music player on all of its iOS devices. Amazon only sells the music but lacks a software like iTunes.

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Do you mean specifically for iOS? Amazon has a mp3 app for Android and has its cloud player that works on other devices as well.

I use cloud player daily

"Amazon cloudplayer" can play MP3s you've purchased on your phone, on the web, or on a windows/mac client. It can also be used to purchase new songs or as a media player of other music (from any source) on your pc or phone.

Cool. How is the quality of music on the Cloud Player?

It's really good in my experience. Though the UX is far inferior to Google Music (which is generally more in line with iTunes as far as cost).

Amazon MP3 downloader moves all your purchased tunes into iTunes for your enjoyment.

Of course, nothing prevents you from using the music on any other player.

BTW, what are the other players out there? Anybody using Winamp? Songbird?

A lot of less technical music geeks prefer winamp, but as a more technical user I really love Foobar2000. doesn't have any of the flashy UI of other player, but the UX is really top notch once you learn your way around it. My favorite part is how it adheres to the pythonic principle of "Explicit is better then implicit" in playback. You have your library and your playlist, and you play things my adding them to your playlist from your library. Dead simple, and easy to do plenty of complicated stuff with. Also it has a huge plugin community, and can even cater to every audiophile whim, if you swing that way.

Urgh: windows. What do the OSX geeks who don't much like iTunes use?

Cog is decent enough. It's no foobar2000 though

I use Clementine, which is a fork of Amarok before it went 2.0. It's pretty spiffy.

http://www.clementine-player.org/

Spotify. "Geeks" use foobar2000 or rythmbox.

Amazon does have an iOS app as well as Android and PC.

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