Best Audio Player in Linux?

[garwin]

you can try mplayer

[rustix]

i've run it on ubuntu, mandriva and fedora core without any probs..

[Tech God]

VLC

[Guest fruitcake]

Atm Banshee 1.2

[Ruti]

i like songbird

[Zerosleep]

I switched over to MPD which is really nice. I'm loving ncmpcpp!

[robz0rz]

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 :)

[koffeejv]

AIMP2 under wine :coffee:

[LTD]

amaroK for KDE.

Rhythmbox for Gnome.

If you want libraries, those are the big players with all the goodies.

There's also Songbird, but I'm not sure how well-integrated that is into either environment.

[PricklyPoo]

Using banshee right now...Was using MPD, but it was kind of a pain in the ass to set up to play music locally.

[Growled Member]

I've always been partial to amaroK.

[Bugballou]

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.

[fix-this!]

exaile

[offroadaaron]

mpd + gmpc is there any way to connect to mpd from Windows of Mac OS X?

[OmART]

Using Banshee. :)!!

[Arite]

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.

[Konstanov]

I'm just curious but what is the bitrate on those files? I have 5212 files and it's 25.5 GB.

I have 9000 something files and the hard drive its on is full....750gigs.

[cviorel]

I use cplay.

cPlay offers high quality audio playback of media files using ASIO. Based on ASIO version 2.0, playback is achieved using any ASIO compatible soundcard. cPlay is a minimalist player using the latest high quality SRC upsampler.

[The_Observer]

enjoying Songbird 1.1.1

[Old Man Pickle]

Recently switched to Songbird and haven't looked back.

[fix-this!]

id have to say exaile.

[Spacce]

I recently switched to songbird and I love it..

second to amarok but I am using gnome mainly

[Growled Member]

My favorite is Babshee but I think Songbird is the one to watch. It has a lot of potential.

[starburst1980]

Can Winamp be installed using Wine?

[Syanide]

I don't like the way Amarok looks in Ubuntu, so I used Exaile. Pretty good and simple.