Best Audio Player in Linux?

[Growled Member]

I'm using Songbird actually... i like it.

Me too. I didn't like it at first but I've been using it a lot lately. It's slowly becoming my favorite player.

[HeretikSaint]

I use to use Amarok but I didn't like the changes they made to Amarok2 so I've since switched to Audacious2. You can use Winamp skins on it. I really like this player.

[Syanide]

^ You might want to try Clementine, it's a Qt4 version of Amarok 1.4.

[Kreuger]

I use to use Amarok but I didn't like the changes they made to Amarok2 so I've since switched to Audacious2. You can use Winamp skins on it. I really like this player.

Same here except I switched to Exaile but I do use Audacious2 as well.

^ You might want to try Clementine, it's a Qt4 version of Amarok 1.4.

I don't like KDE/QT anymore so I'll just keep Exaile but it's great to see someone decided to go back to the original and better look Amarok had.

Edit: They have a windows version, does it need the KDE libs like Amarok itself? I have a friend who loved that look but wont switch OSes It's not quite the same. She probably wont like it. But I downloaded the zip and ran it in wine and it seemed to run so I guess it'll run as is on Windows. Im actually trying it out now and it seems fast as hell for a QT app running it in XFCE.

[Syanide]

Yeah I prefer Exaile as well. As for the Windows version, I seriously doubt they'd use any KDE libraries.

EDIT: There was another project to port Amarok 1.4 to Qt4, but f*** me I can't remember the name :/

[Syanide]

Sorry for the double post, but I've found the other Amarok 1.4 port - It's called Pana, if anyone's interested.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

VLC all the way

[VII7]

I like Bashee. ;)

[Kreuger]

Sorry for the double post, but I've found the other Amarok 1.4 port - It's called Pana, if anyone's interested.

I cant get the damn thing to download. All the links bring up a page of unreadable text/characters like this:

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Bashee

Do you mean Banshee or is there some kind of player based on bash?

[SMELTN]

So looks like Songbird, Banshee and Exaile are getting a lot of buzz. I am also trying to find a good player for Linux.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

trust me, try VLC i've never had a problem with it

[godzila]

on mac os x itunes realplayer vlc, linux vlc..........

[sanctified Veteran]

Is songbird any good on Windows 7?

[SMELTN]

Is songbird any good on Windows 7?

I used Songbird for a while back in Windows 7 beta/RC days. was not to bad at all, but when I got my iPhone late last year, I swapped to itunes and haven't changed. Although, I do hate itunes on windows.

[Veedems Veteran]

They've put Linux development, for Songbird, on hiatus. Just giving a heads up.

[VII7]

Do you mean Banshee or is there some kind of player based on bash?

Yeh that... damn typo. :rofl:

Is songbird any good on Windows 7?

On Win 7 there are other good alternatives like Foobar2000, AIMP 2 and the rest (cause there are many more).

[sanctified Veteran]

On Win 7 there are other good alternatives like Foobar2000, AIMP 2 and the rest (cause there are many more).

I just cant seem to like Foobar :/

I ask because I want a player with the library capabilities of iTunes but without the bloat.

[VII7]

I just cant seem to like Foobar :/

I ask because I want a player with the library capabilities of iTunes but without the bloat.

Don't like the skins? Cause the sound is definitely top notch and there's also plug-in support.

Regarding skinning Foobar2000 is real modular from this point of view... yet the default theme options (as in - the ones that come with the player) are just basic as in 10% of what it can look-like. :)

[sanctified Veteran]

Don't like the skins? Cause the sound is definitely top notch and there's also plug-in support.

Regarding skinning Foobar2000 is real modular from this point of view... yet the default theme options (as in??- the ones that come with the player) are just basic as in 10% of what it can look-like. :)

I know, I have already tried it, skinned it, customize it. I still dont like it.

I just want something that works the way i want OOTB.?

[08993]

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ looks interesting as a new project.

Hey people.

I've been working on this project for almost a year now, and thought I should spread more word about it.

This is a lightweight (but very powerful and flexible) audio player, written in C (though some plugins are in C++), licensed under GPLv2.

Default user interface is using GTK2, and is similar to Foobar2000 player.

The player doesn't use any of the so called "sound backends", like xine or gstreamer - everything is done manually, with respect to memory footprint and optimal CPU use, using native libraries, with exception of FFMPEG plugin used to play back exotic formats, like WMA, and to play back formats that are not implemented yet using their native libraries, like TTA and MPC.

Key features:

* plays mp3, ogg, flac/oga, ape, wav, wv/iso.wv, m4a, mpc/mpp/mp+, wma, shn, atrac3, sid, nsf, mod, s3m, vtx, audio cds and many more

* takes very small amount of memory and CPU

* expandable through plugins

* supports cuesheets (from .cue files, and from metadata), m3u and pls playlists

* internet radio (shoutcast, icecast, podcasts)

* global hot-keys

* reads and writes id3v1, id3v2 and apev2 tags to/from all relevant formats

* can detect charset of bad (non-unicode) id3 tags

* user-customizable playlist columns with title-formatting

* high quality resampling using libsamplerate

* playback using ALSA, OSS and PulseAudio

* last.fm/libre.fm scrobbler

* gapless playback support for many formats

* multiple playlists organized in tabs

* album art display

* 18-band equalizer

* track grouping using title-formatting

source

[fusi0n]

XMMS been using it since the Mandrake days!

[Rob2687]

Foobar equivalent on Linux?! I jizzed in my pants.

[08993]

Foobar equivalent on Linux?! I jizzed in my pants.

Well it works and does indeed seem very foobar'ish - but I was never a Foobar fan so back to Sonata for me.

[jessicahilts]

Always try to keep audio and video player separate from each other While you Use Linux. Most of the people don't care until their system gets jammed about memory stuff. I concerned and try to execute whatever takes less memory on their system and still get their job done. ?....!!!There is lots of Music player version and best compability with Linux..GMPC is a nice frontend for Music Player Daemon. It?s fast and easy to use. Go for this ?.!!

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[soldier1st]

VLC. you can skin it if you like and the audio glitch some users have it easily fixed by setting your audio to alsa from default.