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JustPlay review: Slick media player shines where QuickTime Player is weak

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<p>For modern Mac users, the imminent demise of venerable QuickTime 7 (https://www.macworld.com/article/3268969/quicktime-player-7-goodbye-to-apples-brushed-metal-dinosaur.html) is unlikely to ruffle too many feathers. After all, the media player lacked the simplistic elegance of successor QuickTime X, despite richer codec support and pro capabilities like the ability to add and remove audio tracks. Worse yet, Apple has yet to bring feature parity to the updated QuickTime Player a decade after its introduction.</p><p>This glaring oversight paves the way for third-party Mac media player apps like <a href="https://www.electronic.us/just-play.html" rel="nofollow">JustPlay[/url], a lightweight alternative capable of playing nearly any kind of video or audio you can throw at it, from Apple-friendly MP4 and MOV (including ProRes) to pesky AVI and MKV files, all without conversions or installing codecs.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3405876/justplay-review.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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