How can I ditch iTunes and find a suitable audio player? With the recent features added to iTunes player I find it to be pretty heavy and resources consuming, just to do just what I would like it to do, which is play music. It is almost becoming a full OS which I do not like.

Therefore, I'd like to find something lightweight to build some playlists based on the music I have on my hard-drive, possibly free (but not a requisite). Do you have any alternatives which you would like to share?
I suggested you try SongBird.

also you can choose:


PicoPlay
VoxApp
Banshee