Best Audio Player in Linux?

[murderdoll]

Nothing beats XMMS ( i put it on my 2nd desktop and forget about it )

p.s: i fixed my media buttons on my keyboard to control xmms :)

[M4nB3arP1g]

I like audacious and XMMS and all the other winamp clones but my biggest complaint with them is they have no media library like the new winamp which I prefer and also I am having a hard time find a player that displays embedded cover art because I have all my mp3s tagged with embedded art, if rhythmbox played embedded art it would be my favorite.

[tiagosilva29]

I use Totem.

[lithiumx]

I use Quod Libet to organise and play my music collection, Audacious for quickly playing a single file (like podcasts & audiobooks), and MPlayer for streaming (radio etc...).

Quod Libet is the only music app which respects my meticulous tagging of my audio files.

[DGMurdockIII]

Songbird all the way http://getsongbird.com/

[Zerosleep]

aaaaaaand I still use Rhythmbox.

[Boktai1000]

Amarok although I do wish there was a good Gnome alternative, its the only KDE software I use on my Gnome desktop. Yes I know about Exaile but still Amarok is better IMO.

[nhozemphtekh]

Amarok although I do wish there was a good Gnome alternative, its the only KDE software I use on my Gnome desktop. Yes I know about Exaile but still Amarok is better IMO.

try the new banshee 1.0 (1.2 as we speak) you wont be dissapointed

[dwntwn]

Currently, I use:

BMPx and Banshee

[Boktai1000]

try the new banshee 1.0 (1.2 as we speak) you wont be dissapointed

I installed it from apt and it reports as version 0.13.2 ?_?

edit: I got it installed now, apparently you have to add this to your third party sources.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main

then its listed as banshee-1 instead of banshee... and it didnt uninstall my old banshee and they conflicted and crashed... so far I dont know what to think of it, they should just remove the old one and have the new one only in the repository imo...

edit 2: It just crashes upon start-up still even with both completely removed then reinstalled (only the new banshee)... they need to get in gear and fix this, when Intrepid comes out hopefully they sort all this out, even better if they sorted it out asap because I wont even touch banshee now till they fix this.

Edited August 5, 2008 by Boktai1000

[dwntwn]

edit 2: It just crashes upon start-up still even with both completely removed then reinstalled (only the new banshee)... they need to get in gear and fix this, when Intrepid comes out hopefully they sort all this out, even better if they sorted it out asap because I wont even touch banshee now till they fix this.

Normally when I do an upgrade to a new major version I blow away all my old config files as well.. then again I always compiled banshee from csv.. and I install everything to the same location.

[Boktai1000]

Tried that but didn't make mention of it, the only version I actually got working was 1.0 from getdeb.net with the banshee/banshee-1 folder deleted, I'll mess around with it but I'm still gonna wait till 1.2 hits the Ubuntu repositorys before I would consider a switch to it.

[nvllsvm]

I currently use MPD + Sonata/ncmpc for library listening and XMMS for random files.

[Narlzac85]

Similarly, I also use MPD + Sonata, but I use audacious for random files. I'll check out ncmpc now

[xp1ode]

i still use rhythmbox, but i'm looking for a change since it seems that rhythmbox is just not being worked on anymore. It would be nice if we had something similar to Foobar in linux, and by similar i mean exactly the same ;) .

[markwolfe Veteran]

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It would be nice if we had something similar to Foobar in linux, and by similar i mean exactly the same ;) .

I just downloaded and ran the latest Foobar2000 from their website and played an audio track. It seems to work fine - no special tweaks necessary.

I didn't check out all features, or if there are plug-ins or add-ons.

[Fish]

Running Foobar under Wine

[Borbus]

Running Foobar under Wine

I tried foobar2000 in Wine but the audio quality bad, I wouldn't recommend it for playing audio. But it is good for tagging and Replay Gain scanning.

[Knife Party]

banshee is tops for me :)

[Expl0ited]

Hey Linux dwelling Neowinians. I just wanted to know what is the best audio player out there for Linux. I'm currently running Rhythm Box but I am not TOO happy with it =/

I wish there was iTunes for Linux ; ;

XMMS is no longer developed, you have xmms2 but its only a daemon, MPD (Music Player Daemon) with certain other frontends e.g. Gnome Music Player Client, Sonata, and others including Audacious and others are what I use. also you might want to check out VLC, though it has a few annoying bugs which Ive posted bug reports on... including but not limited to, closing after importing a music library over 5 songs.

[ozulus]

I use Audacious simply because it looks like Winamp. I can't stand music players that have a huge window just to do the simple task of playing a song. All I need is a playlist.

[offroadaaron]

I use Audacious simply because it looks like Winamp. I can't stand music players that have a huge window just to do the simple task of playing a song. All I need is a playlist.

wow that is very Winamp like, I have actually been looking around for a good audio player this week and this one is awesome.

Thanks!

[rustix]

i use VLC :p

[Denholm]

Another one for VLC. Runs perfectly under Ubuntu for me.

[brentaal]

Using MPD :)