Best Audio Player in Linux?

[The2]

Amarok is the best. But there are no players for linux that have the look and the power of Winamp in one player.

[BlueFiberOptics]

I hear Amarok is really nice, but it seems to chew a lot of my CPU. Would that change if I ran it natively in KDE as opposed to Gnome?

I love Audacious.

Yes! Audacious + Winamp skin=Nice player.

[xithium]

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.

Exaile does support Last.fm, it's under the general preferences.

[m1k3io]

Exaile does support Last.fm, it's under the general preferences.

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant the ability to play last.fm stations and listen to them...not just scrobble.

[Fish]

I think I've tried all the most common audio players now. I couldn't get on with Rythmnbox, and for some reason, the sound quality wasn't as good. Songbird seems to me to be the wrong "platform" for a media player. Banshee, Audacious, and Beep all have their good points, but for me Exaile suited my needs better. Just lately I've been using Listen, and I really think this one's a stayer. It's like Exaile, but with a better media library. A lot like Winamp's actually. And yes, Winamp was my audio player of choice in Windows...

[xithium]

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant the ability to play last.fm stations and listen to them...not just scrobble.

Ah, OK. There is a 'Dynamic' button in exaile which claims to 'Fetch similar tracks from Last.fm', but it only seems to add tracks already in your collection to your playlist. It doesn't play the Last.fm radio stations.

[roadgeek9]

Amarok all the way!

[srizo]

I am very impressed with amarok btw. Setting up the mySql database was a breeze. No lagg between transitions. I really like the player. Very easy to use and customizable.

[Daylene]

I liked Audacious, its small and does what I need. My only issue was when streaming music, audacious would play through about half a song, then skip to the next song. Now my player of choice is XMMS.

[Dm4975]

Banshee (Y)

[BabyDoc]

Used Rhythmbox first but now using Banshee and I love it.

[theresiststance2003]

Audacious is amazing, especially if you want a Winamp clone. It's my #1. Banshee is good too, I use it mostly for iPod management though.

[esquiso]

MPD + [sonata/MPC]

It depends if i'm in the CLI-mood or GUI-mood :)

[BilliShere]

amarok... tried everything else. banshee was good too but not as good ipod mangement.

[tsupersonic]

Audacious is amazing, especially if you want a Winamp clone. It's my #1. Banshee is good too, I use it mostly for iPod management though.

Exactly what I was going to post.

[Borbus]

I think mpd with gmpc, ncmpc or sonata is the best music player for GNU/Linux.

[yjwong]

It seems that many are liking Amarok, but unfortunately you'll need the KDE libraries to use it. And I'm reluctant to install the KDE libraries. So I'm using the Amarok clone, Exaile. I used to use Banshee but it chokes on my extremely-large music library.

[CactuzJak]

+1 for Exaile

[Think Floyd]

A decent EQ is seriously needed within one of these Media Players, either that or a system wide configuration. One downfall compared to many Windoze MP's.... I'm finding my sound in need of some refinement, which is not offered by any of the Linux Media Players. Saying that, Rhythmbox is one of the smoothest players I've seen for gnome, thus it is my recommendation. EQ next release, please? :whistle:

[Disasterpiece]

MPD with Sonata. Simple, fast, audioscrobbler suport and very stable.

[Bugballou]

Amarok, with additional codecs.

[DigitalE]

I like Amarok!

[ViperAFK]

The new Banshee 1.0 is amazing.

[Glowstick]

Switched to Songbird.

The footprint of XULrunner is negligible, if you consider the comfort you get over virtually all other players. Also, 0.6 is pretty zippy now in the UI department.

[tsupersonic]

audacious & banshee... but I use windows to manage my music