Best Audio Player in Linux?

[Rockett15]

Audacious has won me over :)

[ViperAFK]

I myself prefer banshee, but Rhythmbox has been getting alot better as of late, amarok is awesome too but I don't like the way it looks like arse in gnome.

[Unksi]

Amarok FTW! :)

[Bunio]

MPD + Sonata

Lovely!

[Gaurav Patel]

Banshee is awesome, but it lags from time to time when I quickly skip through my playlist.

Needs more foobar2000!

[MrFuji]

MPD + Sonata

Lovely!

+1

Although you can't just open a song from your file manager, but I rarely do that anyway.

[Tzimisce]

im using XMMS at this moment, why do i like it? It reminds me of winamp =]

[moglenstar]

im using XMMS at this moment, why do i like it? It reminds me of winamp =]

You should try Audacious, it seems to be a nicer "winamp-like" media player for Linux, with some alternate-style gui's available too.

[MarineForce]

Xmms. I've tried Audacious but I still prefer Xmms ;)

[LightIdea]

Armour of Audacious +5

[kyro]

where is poll here? we need poll.

Audacious (if you want winampy thing)

Banshee (if you want media-browser + ipod browser )

mpd + sonata (if you want network player, stream player )

[xithium]

For managing my music I use Exaile. For a lightweight player I use Audacious. Both are great at what they do. :)

[Nashy]

XMMS

[Shiver202]

Amarok works great , it's skinnable , Artist wiki , Lyrics and alot more :)

[Zerosleep]

Heh. I haven't posted here since 2004. I think I'm on the first and/or second page of this thread, glad to see it's still going!

Is rhythmbox still rad or what? I haven't ran a *nix distro in years. :o

[kyro]

welcome back ?

well.. i like Banshee player works nicely , lately the beta songbird player (kinda browser-based) is also working nicely.

[Zerosleep]

welcome back ?

well.. i like Banshee player works nicely , lately the beta songbird player (kinda browser-based) is also working nicely.

Thanks!

[AJerman]

For managing my music I use Exaile. For a lightweight player I use Audacious. Both are great at what they do. :)

I vote Exaile as well. I've recently started using Linux again and other than mplayer, that's the only one I've used and I don't see much need to try anything else. I don't like xmms or Audacious becuase I don't like the look of the player and the organization of the playlist, and Songbird seems too.... well I don't know how to explain it. It just feels so bloated. I just want something that has my music organized, i can make playlists, and I can play my music. I don't need all the other stuff.

[stranded]

I love Audacious.

[Janitor]

*slaps head*

Great answer. Did you not notice the forum this thread is in or are you being purposefully obtuse?

There is a Winamp beta for linux i think

[Simon Veteran]

There is a Winamp beta for linux i think

It's been a beta of Winamp 3 since 2001.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Winam...ux/1002748075/1

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It's been a beta of Winamp 3 since 2001.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Winam...ux/1002748075/1

Which hasn't been updated since and won't work on modern Linux distributions. Don't even bother trying.

On topic: IMHO Amarok is the best audio player for Linux.

[ViperAFK]

The one thing I hate about amarok is the way it does ipod, I don't know if it's a kde problem too or what. When I plug in my ipod in a gnome distro using rhythmbox or banshee, my ipod pops up int the player I can add songs or w/e then eject it no problem. In amarok in KDE It doesn't detect my ipod at all and it doesn't even mount, when I do get it connected it doesn't eject and sometimes ejecting it through kde doesn't even work. Annoying as hell. Amarok also seems sluggish compared to Rhythmbox, I also don't really like Amarok's interface all that much compared to Rhythmbox. I actually like banshee the mosy UI wise, but it is pretty slow, and crash prone.

[rage710]

I love Audacious.

After looking that one up I think Im gonna give it a whirl. But I generally use Amarok.

[m1k3io]

I'm a Rhythmbox user myself. Like others, I prefer the clean interface and overall stability (in Gnome anyways). I've tried others and I always go back to Rhythmbox. Another thing that it has going for it is the Last.fm plugin that actually works. Last.fm is practically a necessity for me and it didn't work correctly in Amorak. I do like the layout of Exaile, however I didn't see a plugin for Last.fm. Maybe if there was I might consider using it.