Best Audio Player in Linux?

[g-n-t]

you dont need to use KDE to use amaroK.

you shoulad already have the required libs for it. and if you dont, you should, because they are used for a ton of apps.

[furry_goat]

amaroK is easily by far the best audio player for Linux if you want something more than xmms/beep-media-player style basic playlists. I used to use Rhythmbox quite extensively, but now that amaroK is stable and maturing nicely (I use the 1.2 CVS branch, very stable) I find the latter far better for managing and playing music from my collection.

Sure it uses kdelibs and qt, but there's nothing wrong with that --- I don't know why some people have a phobia of kde/qt-based apps running in other DEs. The libraries just occupy a little more space on your hard disk. I use amaroK in Gnome 2.10 quite happily, along with several other kde/qt apps (Kile, Kooka, K3B, etc). With decent themes, GTK2 and QT apps blend in almost seemlessly.

In addition, the DCOP support in amaroK is fantastic and makes for trivially easy scripting.

[YBG]

you dont need to use KDE to use amaroK.

you shoulad already have the required libs for it. and if you dont, you should, because they are used for a ton of apps.

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g-n-t, how would I go about getting amaroK with FC3 with Gnome?

[markwolfe Veteran]

g-n-t, how would I go about getting amaroK with FC3 with Gnome?

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I'm not g-n-t, but I think that an answer from any source is good. :)

Make sure you have "fedora-testing" enabled in your /etc/yum.conf file, and do a yum install amarok.

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[Evolution]

Can anyone recommend an audio player doesn't doesn't required a lot of libraries? ... So this means that anything relating to Qt(KDE) or Gnome aren't possibilities.

[markwolfe Veteran]

mplayer

Runs in the console.

[rezza Veteran]

Can anyone recommend an audio player doesn't doesn't required a lot of libraries? ... So this means that anything relating to Qt(KDE) or Gnome aren't possibilities.

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MPD and ncmpc as a client.

[Kreuger]

Even though my audio doesn't work, MPlayer is my favourite because it hasn't failed to play any file type I've fed to it yet.

[LiquidGUI]

XMMS, its simple, its similar to Winamp (admit it, its a great little app), and its stable.

Whats not to love.

[PureEdit]

I really like XMMS.

[skybl4ck]

I like BMP :D

[Mike Douglas]

I always keep coming back to Muine, great interface.

[thechitowncubs]

BMP (Y)

Muine is ok

amaroK (Y)

[MR_Candyman]

amarok's my fav. by FAR.

XMMS is pretty good, but I like Amarok's interface a whole lot more

[Blue-Vision]

*votes amaroK*

Great app. Almost continuous development, and VERY nice aestetics. Almost reminds me of Foobar2000 on Windows.

[_I am Reptar]

Can anyone tell me why the sound quality in BMP is bad, not as good as XMMS.

[Favorable7404]

I'm bewildered :wacko: .

Ok, regarding sound quality please tell me which is the best.

[thechitowncubs]

Can anyone tell me why the sound quality in BMP is bad, not as good as XMMS.

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I haven't noticed anything... I think it's all in your head

[vincent]

I haven't noticed anything... I think it's all in your head

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Same here both players are excellent

[MateoGWJ]

I'm bewildered :wacko: .

Ok, regarding sound quality please tell me which is the best.

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I get some noticible audio differences when I use different audio engines (Alsa v. OSS v. ESD v. Jack) but not the apps themselves. That's something to think about.

[Rushnak]

I'm sorta on and off linux, and whenever I've used *NIX I liked XMMS, purely because I liked Winamp at the time and that's about the closest thing to it. But now, I like my library set out all nice and neat. Much like the WMP library or iTunes. Is there a nice player like that, for *NIX? If so what name? =)

[markwolfe Veteran]

I'm sorta on and off linux, and whenever I've used *NIX I liked XMMS, purely because I liked Winamp at the time and that's about the closest thing to it. But now, I like my library set out all nice and neat. Much like the WMP library or iTunes. Is there a nice player like that, for *NIX? If so what name? =)

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Well, there is L-Tunes, from the folks at Linspire.

Apparently, it is GPL, and can be compiled. => https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=315523

[hornett]

I'm sorta on and off linux, and whenever I've used *NIX I liked XMMS, purely because I liked Winamp at the time and that's about the closest thing to it. But now, I like my library set out all nice and neat. Much like the WMP library or iTunes. Is there a nice player like that, for *NIX? If so what name? =)

Amarok, it's a great program!

[thechitowncubs]

I've been using amaroK full time now, its amazing.

Watch out for a new rhythmbox release in the upcoming months!

[Seth]

Amarok is just fantastic and acts a lot like iTunes or the WMP library.