When comparing Elmedia Player vs Musique, the Slant community recommends Elmedia Player for most people. In the question“What are the best music players for OSX ?” Elmedia Player is ranked 7th while Musique is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Elmedia Player is:
Elmedia Player streams local videos to other devices, like Samsung TV, LG TV, Sony TV, and other supported smart TV sets.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Stream local files to Chromecast, Smart TV, Apple TV, other AirPlay and DLNA-compliant devices
Elmedia Player streams local videos to other devices, like Samsung TV, LG TV, Sony TV, and other supported smart TV sets.
Pro Plays almost any video file
Elmedia Player is a free media player for Mac that supports various audio and video formats, including FLV, SWF, MP4, AVI, MOV, MP4, DAT, MP3, etc.
Pro Handy Open URL option
Open URL option allows watching YouTube videos without ads.
Pro Making screenshots
Making a screenshot of any moment in the movie or making the entire video a series of pictures with adjustable interval
Pro Video & audio settings
Flip vertically, rotate, mirror videos or revert to original; adjust video brightness, contrast, saturation, and more, sync subtitles to the video, adjust the sound for different genres; set an output device for audio
Pro Subtitles editing
Allows changing font, size, font color, border color, etc. Possibility to increase or decrease subtitles delay
Pro Play online videos online without ads
You can open an online video with a URL and play it without Ads (like it usually happens on YouTube).
Pro Built-in subtitles search
For an effortless access to various subtitles Elmedia is integrated with the opensubtitles.org service, which lets users add desired subtitles to a movie without leaving the app.
Pro Convenient video settings
You can use different settings to video like video and image layout adjustments.
Pro Built-in web browser
The app features built-in web browser that allows you to watch online videos directly from the app, while Open URL enables you to do it without noisy ads.
Pro Now it can save subtitles from opensubtitles.org
Pro Can handle very large local music libraries
Pro Minimal UI
The UI for Musique is pretty minimal. By not throwing every option in the book into the application, the developers are able to keep the interface clear of any clutter.
Pro Consistent queue simplifies what's playing next
There is a queue on the right side of the player, which shows you what is coming up next. This makes it easy to add a new song or remove a song before it plays to be sure that you/your guests stay in the groove. You can also slowly transition to different genres, not to mention plan ahead and adapt as you need to.
Cons
Con No differentation between Album Artist / Track Artist
Albums are sorted via "Album Artist" but each deviating "Track Artist" creates a new album handle. Very bad when you have album tracks where the filename consists of the typical "Artist #1 feat. Artist #2" setting as each of these files creates another album entry.
Con Doesn't resume from last close
Musique won't resume from the last time the app was closed. If you had a great music queue all set up, unfortunately it won't stay there if you close the app.
Con Linux controls don't work
The Linux next/previous buttons don't do anything - you will need to open Musique in order to do anything with it (other than change the volume).