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The best music and radio apps for Mac

Amazon Music Top Stations and Albums

If you love music, then you probably subscribe to Apple Music and jump right to it on your Mac when you’re in the mood to groove. But that may also mean that you dabble in more than one music source.

Maybe you also use Spotify to share playlists with pals who enjoy those services. Or perhaps you even pop on an FM radio station from the time to time just for something different or for a favorite radio show.

There’s no reason you can’t have more than one app on your Mac for songs and radio shows. So if you’re thinking of trying something new, check out this list of the best music and radio apps for your Mac.

MacX Video Converter Pro: convert, download, compress, edit videos at lightning speed [sponsor]

With the latest iPhone 12 family of smartphones offering improved video recording in crisp 4K resolution, the iPhone remains the best pocket camera for capturing high-quality video on the go. But with that power comes a greater responsibility in terms of efficient processing of those video files on your computer. To help with that, a company called Digiarty is offering a powerful app for effortless 4K UHD video processing, called MacX Video Converter Pro (free trial is available). With it, you can convert, edit, download and resize your media with a hardware-accelerated performance that makes the most out of your Mac or Windows PC's CPU and GPU.

How to force universal Mac apps to run under Rosetta emulation instead of natively

Apple provides the enhanced Universal 2 binary feature to its developers who wish to ship macOS apps that pack in code for both Intel and Apple Silicon systems. In other words, a universal binary runs natively on both Apple M1 and Intel-based Mac computers because it contains executable code for both architectures. However, certain edge cases may justify running a native Apple Silicon app under Rosetta emulation, and we show you how it's done.