Turntable For Mac

Besides the elementary audio playback capabilities, iTunes, the default macOS music player, offers you the possibility to purchase songs and keep them ordered by albums.

Even through iTunes is great for organizing music, there are many additional controller applications out there designed to streamline the playlist management and eliminate the need to open the utility, to offer instant details about the current track, and so on.

Turntable, on the other hand, is an iTunes controller that aims to help you digitally browse your albums collection, just like you would do with your vinyl disks. Turntable works only in full-screen mode and automatically launches the iTunes application to be able to access the music library data, and to play the songs.

In the Turntable main window, you can choose to browse the music library by album, records, or artist. The utility detects the album artwork and displays thumbnails to help you identify them faster, but also for the visual effect.

When you select a particular album, Turntable shows the tracks list while using the album artwork as a background image. The app’s top toolbar allows you to adjust the volume level, to toggle the playback, or to skip to the previous or to the next track.

During our test on an iMac running on El Capitan, we have noticed that the search function did not work correctly, and that Turntable did not recognize the artwork if there were other types of files associated with the album, such as a digital book.

Turntable did not display albums or artists that had a single track available, even if the metadata was visible in iTunes.

To conclude, Turntable proposes a refreshing approach when it comes to navigating your iTunes library, but you might not be able to play some of your tracks with the help of this app.