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Nasturtium Player 1.0.6 (Mac App Store link) is a YouTube and music player that lets you create hours of playlists without the hassle of switching apps or windows.

You can drag and drop music and YouTube videos into the handy Nasturtium interface or use the mini player. The potential is fantastic, but the reality is unfortunately a bit finicky—copying and pasting the URL from YouTube worked much better for me than actually dragging and dropping the videos.

Still, as far as aggregate media players go, Nasturtium has an intuitive interface and robust search feature that finally lets you put Youtube music videos next to your iTunes favorites—right where they belong.

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