Best Audio Player in Linux?

By MatthewK
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robz0rz

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Banshee, Songbird, Rhythmbox, these are all really good library-players. Much like iTunes, they allow you to keep a library of your media sorted, while also being awesome at playing your media.

VLC, Totem, MPlayer, these are examples of multimedia players in theri truest form. They will play music and video, and give you many options.

Audacious, bmp, xmmp, these are examples of simple but effective music players. They have a low memory footprint, they play music, provide you witht he options you'd expect, but don't organise a library.

Here's your rundown :)

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Rhythembox, gtkpod and banshee appear to be similar after looking at Wiki's. Of the three Rhythembox appears to be the most versatile. Can use it on this KDE desktop if I install all of its gnome dependencies, just need to keep track of them so if I decide to uninstall, can remove them all. Will be using Synaptic and not kpackage to install. Faithful Amarok user at present, but need to use other programs to burn CD's.

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I used Quod Libet - great for large libraries, tagging, renaming etc. and you can use regular expressions to find the music you want to listen to. I use foobar2000 on Windows and Quod Libet is the best alternative I've found (foobar2000 does work with Wine though but isn't ideal as main player). There is an Audioscrobbler plugin as well (albeit it not fully 1.2 protocol compliant ATM).

It doesn't have gapless playback (GStreamer) and could be said to be slow on startup (written in Python) though.

As for one-track plays I use VLC :).

Arite.

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