Best Audio Player in Linux?

By MatthewK
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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.

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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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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.

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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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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

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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!

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