If that doesn’t work, you can search your collection or use the library radio function, which is kind of like Pandora but uses only your collection. Most times, this is all you need to quickly put on some music. When nothing is playing, you’ll see some recently played artists alongside some recently added albums. The main interface is clean, showing the album art for what’s currently playing along with the track and artist name. But it really isn’t, and once you have Plex set up, you have access to a really great player that can stream your music from wherever it’s stored. We know: setting up Plex just for a music player seems like a pain. As the name implies this is a mini-player in the style of Winamp, all powered by a Plex server.
Plex has certainly been ambitious lately, and Plexamp is just one recent example. Plexamp: Simple Yet Robust (Once It’s Set Up)
The only catch is that it subtly promotes an ID3 tag cleaner named Finetool.
It’s a very nice package that feels native on macOS-something you can say for every option on this list.
