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- shanesemler, on 05/22/2008, -4/+75This is not a good list. BMP is now Audacious, having them both on there is redundant. XMMS is really old and ugly and has been surpassed a long time ago by other audio players. And while I'm not a fan of QT or KDE, Amarok should be at the top, not Rhythmbox.
- LANjackal, on 05/22/2008, -5/+49Article reads as if author just did a Google search and posted the results. Buried. Also, Amarok FTW.
- mark076h, on 05/22/2008, -3/+36these lists never mention Songbird
- kevdotbadger, on 05/22/2008, -2/+331- Rhythmbox:
Rhythmbox is an great audio application for linux. It’s free of cost and it can play and organize digial music easily. It’s inspiration comes from Apple iTunes and it worked pretty amazing under the GNOME Desktop while using the GStreamer media framework.
2- GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client):GMPC is a nice frontend for Music Player Daemon. It’s fast and easy to use, while still making optimal use of all the functions in mpd.
3- XMMS (The X Multimedia System):
XMMS (X MultiMedia System) is a great multimedia player which works on almost all systems but it has some special items which only works in Linux. XMMS can play media files such as MP3, MOD’s, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. It’s a free software audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating
systems.
4- Amarok:
Amarok is another great music player for Linux and Unix. Amarok’s interface is very intuitive. It’s a free music player for GNU/Linux and works with UNIX as well. Right now, Amarok is the most popular audio player for Linux.
5- Quod Libet
Quod Libet is a GTK+ based audio player, it’s main feature is it’s music library management. Instead of categorizing the songs by genre, artist, and album, you can search and display instead. Quod Libet can support huge music libraries compared to any other audio players for linux out there.
6- Audacious:Audacious is a free media player for Linux or Linux based systems. Supporting immense portion of its features to plugins, including all codecs. With Audacious, On most systems, a useful set of plugins is installed by default, giving you the ability toplay MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files etc.
7- Exaile:
Exaile is a free software audio player for Unix-like operating systems that aims to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but based on the GTK+ toolkit instead of the Qt toolkit Amarok uses.
8- Banshee:
Banshee is an free audio player for GNU/Linux operating systems which uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platforms to play, encode, and decode Oggs, MP3s, and other formats.You can play and import audio CDs, play and synchronize music with iPods and share your music easily. Banshee also have the capability of reporting played songs to a user’s Last.fm playlist. Another cool feature of Banshee is that it can Rip CD’s, support podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, burn audio and MP3 cd’s and much more!
9- BMP (Beep Media Player)
BMP is also known as beep media player. BMP is a free audio player based on XMMS multimedia player (Mentioned above). It looks like Winamp and also supports it’s skins, including XMMS’s. BMP supports most of the audio formats that XMMS does, main difference is between plugins that these both players use.
10- Sonata:
Sonata is another elegant GTK+ Music player for MPD (Music player daemon) - impreza, on 05/22/2008, -1/+31I'm amazed VLC player didn't make it into the list, I have yet to find a multimedia file it won't play!
- JazzClutchkick, on 05/22/2008, -2/+26Ok Amarok is by far the best of that list. Anyone who has used amarok knows it enough to get an audiophile to use linux. I actually dual boot linux simply for that program it kicks ass!
- caLt, on 05/22/2008, -0/+18"Listen" not in the top 10 list? I love it.
- crownedgriffin, on 05/22/2008, -0/+16Amarok is by far the awesomest. However, Rhythmbox will play music from a share on a 2003 server with no extra work. Point it to the share and it just works. Usefull for those of us who don't hate Windows.
- skywake, on 05/22/2008, -0/+16Songbird had potential but it hasn't really lived upto it yet..... although TBH I haven't tried it recently, maybe it got better all of a sudden.
- yuanzhoulu, on 05/22/2008, -2/+16I actually like the command line mplayer for playing music. Nothing beats the flexibility:
find . | egrep -i 'beethoven.*symphony [579] | sort | xargs -d \\n mplayer
plays beethoven's symphonies 5, 7, and 9 only.
find . | egrep -i '(mozart|haydn)' | rl | xargs -d \\n mplayer
plays random mozart and haydn stuff.
find . | egrep -i 'symphony' | rl | xargs -d \\n mplayer
plays random symphonies from any composer.
etc. - inactive, on 05/22/2008, -0/+14If you want a complete library management, w iPod support, amarok is the best. I can't believe amarok wasn't #1. I really don't like rhythmbox, and that's coming from a hardcore gNome user.
- ninja0, on 05/22/2008, -1/+14Nice list, I use amarok in gnome.. and though I just learned exhale is kinda the same, it just looks liek garbage in comparison. Great list though.
I still think amarok should be the top of the list. He even says its the most used... so if its the most used how can it be number 4? - tcpip4lyfe, on 05/22/2008, -1/+13Just skip the list and install Amarok. Nothing else compares.
- l0k0, on 05/22/2008, -0/+11Yea, I imagine Linux users, who naturally like to customize their OS, would enjoy Foobar2000, since you can do pretty much anything with it, in terms of layout. I use it everyday because it feels like MY media player, and the only limitations are within the user, not the program itself, so as I learn more code and associate myself more the SDK, it only gets better.
- flyingmeteor, on 05/22/2008, -11/+22Still, none of them compare to the flexibility of foobar2000. The one app I've truly missed since I moved to Linux.
- xaeon, on 05/22/2008, -3/+13Did you just talk about Windows audio players without mentioning Winamp? iTunes is a big pile of steaming horsepoo which should be wiped from the earth.
Also, you're talking bum. The more competition, the better. - skywake, on 05/22/2008, -0/+10Amarok + VLC
all you will ever need for media on Linux - knightmarex, on 05/22/2008, -0/+10Damn, I hate it when they put a preview of an image, but they don't link it to the real size version.
- Swarmie, on 05/22/2008, -1/+11Rythmbox that follows with Ubuntu also satisfies most users, I don't see your point.
- benexor, on 05/22/2008, -1/+10site broke on my turn to see it... :'(
- jamesatdigg, on 05/22/2008, -2/+10here is some more list http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-media-players-ove ...
- Hangly, on 05/22/2008, -0/+8Yeah, songbird isn't quite done yet. The website with the farting bird deserves some kind of award though.
- fredmv, on 05/22/2008, -2/+10Audacious is the true "Winamp of Linux" without the embedded AOL adware crap. For a lightweight player, nothing beats it. For more fully-featured players however, Songbird and Exaile are worth a look.
- inactive, on 05/22/2008, -0/+7Amarok for everything everyday ... VLC for just everything :)
- smotpoker, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_media_p ... amarok holds it's own feature-wise. I've never used foobar but have heard it mentioned favorably several times. Could you elaborate on what specifically you believe makes it preferable to amarok?
- Killerah, on 05/22/2008, -0/+7Yep, same here, I use Amarok which is great and everything, but I really miss the amazingly in depth tagging features of foobar2000. I can do some of the stuff that foobar does in EasyTAG, but even that isn't up to the same level of foobar. Plus foobar is soooo lightweight, I used to have it configured to use up maybe 5 mb of ram with all the features I cared for in a media player. If there was a linux port of foobar2000 I would be all over it.
- n3tfury, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8i suggest you get your nerd on.
- ReidFleming, on 05/22/2008, -0/+7I only recently switched from xmms to Audacious and, while ugly, it just worked. Having used Audacious for a while now, though, I can't see why xmms is on this list at all.
- UKsHaDoW, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8This is linux, there's probably thousands, done by programmers to there taste.
- piesforyou, on 05/22/2008, -0/+6Rhythmbox really needs a built in equaliser though. Other than that, it is great.
- dualscreenman, on 05/22/2008, -0/+6Amarok barely gets any writeup too... :/
Heck, even its GTK clone gets a feature list... - reisrocks, on 05/22/2008, -1/+7mplayer + shell = awesome
- inactive, on 05/22/2008, -1/+6Holy *****! You've got to be kidding me. Please, tell me you're being sarcastic if you aren't then you're probably the guy that gets all the girls on the neighborhood...
- PatrickBrown, on 05/22/2008, -0/+5Is that a serious question? It sounds like you have never written a cross-platform program. Accessing different system-dependent libraries/frameworks/APIs in a uniform manner while handling their responses in a uniform manner isn't a walk in the park.
- jdhore1, on 05/22/2008, -0/+5I hate to admit this (especially after it's been removed from the Debian and Ubuntu repos), but i think XMMS is the "Winamp of Linux"...Audacious has a ton more features and it looks better, but if you need a nice, good-looking jukebox-based media player that is VERY lightweight and just works, XMMS FTW.
- hotweiss, on 05/22/2008, -1/+6BMPx was not included for some reason:
http://seethisnowreadthis.com/2007/12/15/bmpx-hott ...
In my opinion it is the best. - jdhore1, on 05/22/2008, -0/+5I agree, and he left out BMPx which is the successor to BMP that has a completely new interface and core and stuff.
- Giga, on 05/22/2008, -0/+5"Who organizes their music with a mySQL database?"
You can use the built in sqlite instead. MySQL is not the default setting. It can be useful though for those with really huge libraries as it is just too damn slow using the classic methods at times. - reisrocks, on 05/22/2008, -3/+8if I could dig your comment 1000 times, I would. mplayer + shell
- thomascj, on 05/22/2008, -1/+6i always loved amarok, but exaile is miles ahead as far as stability and UI goes.
- helikopter, on 05/22/2008, -1/+6*****
old meme, and you're not even doing it right. - WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -2/+6amarok looks the best, hopefully it will make it windows without being a disastrous crashing leakfest like songbird.
why is it so hard to develop a decent, cross-platform lightweight yet functional (look at the most requested features that have cropped up ten billion times) that looks good, responds fast and never ever crashes? - holyskeleton, on 05/22/2008, -3/+7it'll be nice to have foobar on linux.
- newwatch51, on 05/22/2008, -1/+5A beginner will just use the default.
- mvrck, on 05/22/2008, -0/+4I wish XMMS menu fonts would work seamlessly in Ubuntu. By default they look ugly. That is the primary reason I don't use xmms. Amarok is the only KDE app I fancy.
- watcht, on 05/22/2008, -0/+4Foobar2k has an incredible amount of gui customization, you can make the thing look like anything you like, amarok does have customization like color changing, i know , but it's nothing compared to foobar2k. Ex:http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/315/urlcn2.jpg
Besides visuals, it's got audio plugins which the guy above me basically covered. - krc1, on 05/22/2008, -1/+5It's 2008 *****, and you're still doing Rick Rolls?
- inkysplat, on 05/22/2008, -0/+4Amarok is good but the media library is a nightmare to update if you have a huge collection of music (30,000+), personally if you just want a music player that'll find your music library and play a song you can't really beat Music Player Daemon with the GMPC interface, its much faster and can handle loads of audio formats without installing any gstreamer plugins.
- Acglaphotis, on 05/22/2008, -0/+4How about because it's ***** hard. Why don't YOU try to write any cross-platform app which is lightweight, looks good, responds fast and never ever crashes?
- inactive, on 05/22/2008, -0/+4Why are there 10? Because you can!
I agree choice is good but too much choice is bad, but the Linux platform has been built on the possibility of choice. You just have to deal with it. :)
If the stnd built-in player is good enough for you, fine. If not, go explore. I agree it can be a pain to test of them for months before settling on one, but you did the same for Windows. It just a few years instead of months... same difference! :) -
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