Best Audio Player in Linux?

[mr_demilord]

XMMS becos I loved Winamp and my multimedia keyboard with audio hotkeys works with XMMS.

and it is skinnable :yes:

[fragbunny]

I installed xmms, but it stops responding when I'm trying to load an audio file. What could be wrong?

[vincent]

I installed xmms, but it stops responding when I'm trying to load an audio file. What could be wrong?

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Point Xmms to the directory of where you audio file is located and it should just run. What distro are you using?

[.calibre]

XMMS/BMP. Winamp was in its prime in the 2.* days and XMMS carries it on nicely :cool:

[mr_demilord]

I installed xmms, but it stops responding when I'm trying to load an audio file. What could be wrong?

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Open xmms, dont play anything yet! right click on xmms choose settings > preferences > choose output plugin there is a dropdown menu select your soundcard driver could be OSS or ALSA.

I had the same problem as you :crazy:

[fragbunny]

Thanks, it works now. But why doesn't the keyboard shortcuts to play/pause previous and next etc work on xmms?

[recursive_asshole]

There is no "best" audio player, it's fully a matter of priorities and preference.

I've been using/looking a lot myself lately and I found out the following;

XMMS plays WMA files, among others, fine once having installed the "xmms-wma"

XMMS has on-screen display with "xmms-xosd" and "xosd" installed.

XMMS has media-key support with "xmms-xf86" or "xmms-acme" or even "xmms-itouch" installed (some require other packages)

Rhythmbox can play anything, but has vitually no theming options and has a rather slow interface.

BMp (Beep Media Player - XMMS-style player using GTK2) has almost all of XMMS's wonderful plugin, but has several drawbacks.

Muine is much like Rhythmbox, and I therefor skipped getting to know it.

AmaroK is a fast, but QT-engined, futuristic player, but lacks functionality and logic in the interface. If I didn't know better, I would've thought it was a commercial and very expensive application.

As for all the CLI-players, their "interfaces" are all the same give or take a command or output, and therefor need no coverage by me.

Hope this all helps. :)

(fragbunny >> They do if you install any/all of the packages/plugins i mentioned earlier.

I personally prefer xmms-itouch)

Why any of you would make so many references to WinAmp, a now bloated and surprisingly ugly-by-default Windows audio-player, is beyond me. XMMS has many more functions and plugins, not to mention the ability to use both their own, BMp and WinAmp skins. I think we'd all be happy if you would stop praising an application that irrelevant to the post topic.

[Patrick_]

XMMS/BMP. Winamp was in its prime in the 2.* days and XMMS carries it on nicely  :cool:

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I'll second that. :D

[mr_demilord]

Thanks, it works now. But why doesn't the keyboard shortcuts to play/pause previous and next etc work on xmms?

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you need the plugin check it here hotkeys

install it or search for the plugin pack at rpm then you can use your hotkeys, but you need to configure them in xmms options.

[zircon]

I would go with amarok, btu i hear the upcoming release of Rhythmbox is suppsoe to be pretty good. Also matters if you use Gnome vs kde, Rhythmbox integrates better into gnome of course than kde and amarok is the reverse.

[fpd]

Finally got foobar2000 to work with wine, now thats officially my favourite in linux:D

[Mike Douglas]

recursive_asshole, I suggest you give Muine a try, the interface is radically different than the itunes-a-likes such as rhythmbox (muine is actually maintained by an old rhythmbox maintainer).

btw, GTK2 is themeable (and can even be made to pick up the current QT theme).

[mr_demilord]

Hot news! XMMS2 XMMS2 seems very promising to me.

[jack_canada]

Is there a command line mp3 player that would play an entire folder for me?

[chavo]

Is there a command line mp3 player that would play an entire folder for me?

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mpg123 will do it.

Just do this ->

for i in *.mp3;do mpg123 $i;done

[markwolfe Veteran]

or mplayer *.mp3

Does mpg123 really require all that mess?

[Lechio]

Is there a command line mp3 player that would play an entire folder for me?

mplay is a pretty good choice,

it's a perl script that extends mplayer usability on console mode.

Take a look: http://mplay.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

[PureEdit]

Is there a command line mp3 player that would play an entire folder for me?

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You can use cplay which will use mpg123 or ogg123 when appropriate and play an entire folder of music that you pick.

http://www.tf.hut.fi/~flu/cplay/

As much as I like mplayer for movies, it uses more resources then mpg123 and seems to skip sometimes when I am using my computer for other cpu intensive tasks.

[jack_canada]

Do these players allow me to play sub folders in a folder as well? For example:

/music contains few mp3 files, /music/something contains some more, /music/more contains even more. Any of these players let me import /music and adds music files in all the subdirectory into its playlist? That's what I want.

EDIT:

Cplay did it for me, thx!

Edited June 5, 2005 by jack_canada

[futb0l]

I'm using Rhythmbox at the moment, but I'm not satisfied with it. It's lacking features - you can't even sort (by name, album, etc) the songs on your playlists!!? I think that sucks. I need a good player that can organize my library. Amarok looks good - I might give that atry.

[Rix]

I use BMP on Ubuntu, it looks nicer then XMMS (All the menu's in XMMS look ugly), and it's one of the few players that actually play my songs :p

[futb0l]

I use BMP on Ubuntu, it looks nicer then XMMS (All the menu's in XMMS look ugly), and it's one of the few players that actually play my songs :p

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BMP looks a lot like Winamp...

[Rix]

BMP looks a lot like Winamp...

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And? :huh:

[fpd]

I haven't been satisfied with any of the linux audio players. Are there any with a similar feature set to foobar2000? If not, I'll continue to use this with wine.

[vassie]

XMMS for me :)

Ben