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10 Best Linux Audio players

anewmorning.com — A List of best Linux Audio players. Essential for all Linux users :)

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  • youscript, on 05/22/2008, -23/+3I love this list :)
    • rpgmaker, on 05/22/2008, -1/+4Basically he listed all the mainstream audio projects :)
      Anyways, Rhythmbox doesn't seem to have many fans but I definitely am one. It's lighter than most of the counterparts on that list, the lyrics plugin could use some work but other than that is a great audio application.
      • muszek, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3Ditto. I've tried using other music players (including all those from the list, excluding Sonata) and they just didn't feel right.

        Rhythmbox suits best my way of listening music. I don't create playlists - I play entire albums. This model of listening isn't really supported in most other players - they want me to add stuff to playlists, which isn't as convinient.
        • piesforyou, on 05/22/2008, -0/+6Rhythmbox really needs a built in equaliser though. Other than that, it is great.
      • mason.parker, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Heh, that's what I was thinking. The title should have been "10 Linux Audio Players".
    • 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.
      • reisrocks, on 05/22/2008, -3/+8if I could dig your comment 1000 times, I would. mplayer + shell
      • rpgmaker, 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...
        • yuanzhoulu, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1i'm not being sarcastic. i actually play my music that way (well, close. i wrote a perl script that keeps prompting me for *just* the regular expression alone and i can type 'random' before it if i want to invoke rl to randomise the list.)

          it just makes life simple, i can play what i want playing as fast as possible, and i don't maintain any playlists whatsoever or have to manage any libraries of any sort when i add music -- my file system is my library, and all the info i want is in my filenames, not my ID3 tags.
      • Disease, on 05/22/2008, -2/+1Nerd
      • jpinsonault, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1I take my hat off to you. Not that I have a hat, but if I did I would have just taken it off.

        I wish iTunes could take regular expressions in it's search
      • rootneg2, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1You should check out Music Player Daemon (with the mpc commandline client), I think you might find it even more convenient, scriptable, etc.

        http://www.musicpd.org/
      • jay019, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0You sir are my hero!
  • Happy_Phantom, on 05/22/2008, -10/+1I need a list of the best portable player devices.

    The best I've seen is at http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisHardware
  • flyingmeteor, on 05/22/2008, -11/+21Still, none of them compare to the flexibility of foobar2000. The one app I've truly missed since I moved to Linux.
    • 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.
    • jdhore1, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3I hate to sound like a sycophant here, but Audacious is going to be adding A LOT of Foobar2000-like features in the next 3-4 months worth of development.
    • 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?
      • HerbSolo, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2I don't know Amarok, as I'm using Quod Libet, but here's what i like about foobar:
        Tons of plugins, support for even the obscurest formats like TAK, replay-gain support, ASIO, great tagging functionality, gapless playback, support for embedded cuesheets (one of the features i miss most when in linux), lightweight + you can customize every little detail of it.
      • 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.
      • flyingmeteor, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1Replay-gain, mass-tagging, and customizing the interface are the best for me.
    • 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.
    • godzillaWax, on 05/22/2008, -5/+4I use foobar myself, but the lack of a default, kick-ass looking UI is maddening. You shouldn't have to spend an hour fiddling with a program to get it to look pretty.
      • n3tfury, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8i suggest you get your nerd on.
      • WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -1/+0i agree 100%. foobar could be good, but the ***** nerds behind it have enforced their own pathetic set of rules (not allowing the redistribution of configs) meaning that it ends up as an entirely frustrating exercise. way to go foobar
    • HerbSolo, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1It's not that hard to make foobar look great:
      http://www.fooblog2000.com/2007-06/fofr-version-09

      I miss it whenever i'm in linux, i got to run in wine, but not stable enough. (This was 3 months ago though, who knows, maybe it runs better now)
      • WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -2/+0those configs take the app into the bloatosphere, precisely the opoosite of what i thought it was about, and still fail as they are all style over substance
        • HerbSolo, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1yeah - it definitely slowed down the startup - it now takes 1 second to start (hell!)

          when it comes to "substance": whatever you may want from an audio-player, foobar can do it.
    • PsychTouch, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2i totally agree, it would be great to have a native Linux version
    • safeq, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1gmusicbrowser 0.964 FTW!

      Seriously, it is very good, small player with library browser (very useful)
      and a lot of nice features.
      And i don't miss foobar anymore.
      Just try it.

      (sry for my "english" :D)
    • onyxrev, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3Foobar runs perfectly in wine.
    • golvin, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0You should try GMusicBrowser.
      http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowse ...

      Although sometimes it's buggy, it shows its great potential to be 'foobar2000' on Linux
  • shanesemler, on 05/22/2008, -4/+74This 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • wmt9, on 05/22/2008, -11/+6Rhythmbox owns the ***** out of Amarok.

      Amarok is full of bloatware features that are useless to a normal user.
      Who organizes their music with a mySQL database?

      The Rhythmbox GUI has a nice way of organizing music similar to iTunes. Its also has built in support for ipods and last.fm profiles.
      • 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.
      • nestcrw, on 05/22/2008, -0/+4mySQL is the only way to go if you have over 10k tracks.
      • Woknblues, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3"Rhythmbox owns the ***** out of Amarok."

        -crazy talk... both are good.

        "Amarok is full of bloatware features that are useless to a normal user."

        -normal user here, using stuff pretty nicely...

        "Its also has built in support for ipods and last.fm profiles."

        -Amarok has both of these features... And didn't you just complain about extra features?
      • danfive555, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2"Who organizes their music with a mySQL database?"

        I just did, and it is freaking great. Amarok + mySQL beats anything out there.
    • jmichaelx, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3XMMS forever. It starts up instantly, and works in cases where Audacious still chokes in my experience (some cases of live streaming). Ugly? WTF? How is it uglier than Audacious? Many of the exact same skins can be used, and I have a collection of awesome ones. XMMS is also still the very best GUI player for minimalist systems.

      It is sad that one now has to compile XMMS herself/himself in the *buntus.

      Bring back XMMS!
      • shanesemler, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1The nasty old GTK 1.x dialogs and preference panels. That's the ugly part.
    • newwatch51, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3Yes XMMS is old. But it works fine. Why update something that's already perfect? And how is it ugly? If you don't like the way it looks, just get another skin. There are plenty of them.
      • shanesemler, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1Again, the nasty old GTK 1.x dialogs and preference panels. That's the ugly part. No one uses GTK 1.x anymore. It has ugly fonts, there are no configuration options for GTK 1.x in any modern distro. It's dead and over with.
        • newwatch51, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1I never really cared able that stuff. It's the function that matters to me.
    • teambosun, on 05/22/2008, -1/+3Word. I even use Amarok in gnome :)
    • mohtasham, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1Amarok Forever. Amarok was the only reason that I switched to KDE 4 to get the best performance out of it, however, KDE 4 lacks some important features of gnome 2.2. That s I switched back to ubuntu and installed amarok in it
  • jamesatdigg, on 05/22/2008, -2/+9here is some more list http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-media-players-ove ...
    • Jayferd, on 05/22/2008, -0/+0That list is a little out of date. It's talking about dapper and edgy. Plus, xmms is no longer in the hardy repos - it's been replaced by audacious (which is still basically the same thing, just with a new skin).
  • caLt, on 05/22/2008, -0/+17"Listen" not in the top 10 list? I love it.
    • Nasso, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1me too. i love the simplicity and how they have a play list and search functionality on the screen at once. no tabs or anything like that, you always know which the next song will be. it is perfect for parties too as it is so easy to use and understand for people that have never used it before.
    • DomZy, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1I used to use Listen, but they didn't seem to develop very fast and I use Exaile now
  • LANjackal, on 05/22/2008, -5/+48Article reads as if author just did a Google search and posted the results. Buried. Also, Amarok FTW.
  • ninja0, on 05/22/2008, -1/+13Nice 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?
    • dualscreenman, on 05/22/2008, -0/+6Amarok barely gets any writeup too... :/
      Heck, even its GTK clone gets a feature list...
    • shanesemler, on 05/22/2008, -3/+5I'm not sure how you judge looks but although Amarok has very nice features, it's UI is a mess. Exaile is much cleaner.
    • ctenn2ls, on 05/22/2008, -2/+3I really liked Amarok and the interface was gorgeous, especially after customization, but I found that it couldn't handle a large library without crashing all the time. I eventually switched to Rhythmbox for the better stability.
      • abhiroop, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Switch database to MYSQL...speed increases tenfold!
    • skywake, on 05/22/2008, -0/+10Amarok + VLC
      all you will ever need for media on Linux
    • jaderobbins, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1if amarok was crashing due to large libraries it was probably because you used SQLite. Gotta love a music player that will use full fledged mysql to run your library. Then you can run all sorts of queries on your music library!
  • mark076h, on 05/22/2008, -3/+35these lists never mention Songbird
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • spartan777, on 05/22/2008, -1/+3songbird isn't even close to prim-time.
      • mark076h, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1i used it for almost a year and loved it
  • runelp, on 05/22/2008, -5/+0thanks for the list :)
  • terminalpariah, on 05/22/2008, -11/+4Banshee offers a lot more than what's on the surface. There's a pretty cool demo of some of the advanced features up on YouTube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06T5UUGteKQ
  • TheWindBlows, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2I personally am using Banshee 1.0 pre-final releases they work quite nicely even though banshee is tied to mono it loads faster than firefox oddly enough...
    • mossblaser, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1It is a lot less complicated though...
  • fredmv, on 05/22/2008, -2/+9Audacious 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.
    • 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.
      • fredmv, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Agreed, but

        >> it's been removed from the Debian and Ubuntu repos

        is why I no longer use XMMS.
        • jdhore1, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1True, but also you're more than likely not running a system so old that GTK2 apps make it crawl...Like a bug report i was reading the other day from an idiot using a P2 266 as his main box and he got bitchy that Audacious used 25% CPU and XMMS only used 7%.
        • jmichaelx, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0Agreed, but

          >> it's been removed from the Debian and Ubuntu repos

          which is why i compiled XMMS from source. XMMS is sweet, and compiling it is not difficult.
  • thewump, on 05/22/2008, -9/+3Holy crap. I'm a linux guy and I didn't know there were 10. Dugg.. Installing Exaile as we "speak".
    • UKsHaDoW, on 05/22/2008, -1/+8This is linux, there's probably thousands, done by programmers to there taste.
  • JennySanders, on 05/22/2008, -4/+0I like this.. some i didnt knew
  • holyskeleton, on 05/22/2008, -3/+6it'll be nice to have foobar on linux.
  • bhod, on 05/22/2008, -10/+2They should name one obamamania and then I might think of downloading it. But they'd have to make it Windows compatible also. :)
  • knightmarex, on 05/22/2008, -0/+9Damn, I hate it when they put a preview of an image, but they don't link it to the real size version.
  • hotweiss, on 05/22/2008, -1/+5BMPx was not included for some reason:

    http://seethisnowreadthis.com/2007/12/15/bmpx-hott ...

    In my opinion it is the best.
    • waydee, on 05/22/2008, -2/+1You are right
    • newwatch51, on 05/22/2008, -2/+1I tried it in Hardy, but it crashes whenever I open a file.
    • hotweiss, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Did you install it using the file from getdeb.net? Just asking because it works fine for me on Hardy.
  • Zaggynl, on 05/22/2008, -3/+4So much choice, yet none of them is the "holy grail"
  • JazzClutchkick, on 05/22/2008, -2/+25Ok 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!
    • courtjester555, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Although with the release of Amarok 2, you'll be able to stay in Windows :(
  • TimeLincoln, on 05/22/2008, -15/+1Here is a direct link to direct downloads of the players listed in the article, enjoy!
    http://tinyurl.com/3cmfdy
  • cbeach, on 05/22/2008, -15/+3Why are there ten(+) different audio players in Linux that we might choose between? Yes, competition is all good, but with so many different distributions and apps that do similar things, Linux is needlessly confusing for the beginner. In Windows and Mac OS X there are also dozens of choices, but we rarely have to consider alternatives to iTunes and Windows Media Player, since these tools satisfy 99% of users. In the OSS world, Firefox has shown that we don't need dozens of web browsers competing in order to see rapid innovation. So, why do we need ten audio players?
    • Swarmie, on 05/22/2008, -1/+11Rythmbox that follows with Ubuntu also satisfies most users, I don't see your point.
    • xaeon, on 05/22/2008, -3/+14Did 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.
      • cbeach, on 05/22/2008, -2/+3iTunes on PC isn't great but it kicks ass on the Mac - much more performant. Winamp used to be my player of choice on the PC but it's become a bit bloated for my taste. VLC is a better all-round compact client.
    • dreamszz, on 05/22/2008, -0/+5Why 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! :)
    • newwatch51, on 05/22/2008, -1/+5A beginner will just use the default.
    • Bleeding_Heart, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1Most KDE distros just use Amarok, the fact it's one of, if not the best audio players for linux means most people never have to make a choice.

      Windows uses WMP, which isn't very good (ok but not good) so I think people are more likely to go searching, and theres far more than 10 to choose from in Windows.

      It took me a good while to find one I was happy with in Windows (MediaMonkey) and no time at all in KDE (Amarok which was already there).
  • thomascj, on 05/22/2008, -1/+5i always loved amarok, but exaile is miles ahead as far as stability and UI goes.
  • impreza, on 05/22/2008, -1/+30I'm amazed VLC player didn't make it into the list, I have yet to find a multimedia file it won't play!
    • WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -5/+1are you kidding me
      • Disease, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3What can't it play?
      • WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1this is a list of Best Audio Players, not Players That Can Handle A Lot of Formats But Are Best Restricted To Using To Watch The Odd Movie Seeing As How They Were In No Way Intended To Play And Manage Music Collections
    • Culyt, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3VLC's a great movie player but its not so great as a music one. Don't think there are really any audio formats that are unlikely to play to anyone would encounter with music (although you will need to install the mp3 codecs under most Linux distros)
  • benexor, on 05/22/2008, -1/+9site broke on my turn to see it... :'(
  • mrogi, on 05/22/2008, -11/+3VLC did not make the top 10 because the asshats at VideoLan still cant figure out how to make their player work with Samba to play music files across a local network.
  • Hangly, on 05/22/2008, -2/+2Amarok is a little piggy. The rest are a-ok with me though.
  • wastedfluid, on 05/22/2008, -0/+13If 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.
  • crownedgriffin, on 05/22/2008, -0/+15Amarok 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.
  • Jarulf, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Give me Skreemr integration in Rhythmbox and i will never look at another Audio Player again.
  • mvrck, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3I 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.
  • jittr, on 05/22/2008, -1/+0yes wastedfluid, that is bang on, amarok every time
  • PhonicUK, on 05/22/2008, -2/+3I don't know why anyone still uses XMMS, its pretty obsolete. BMP too. Audacious took its place a *long* time ago.
    • antdude, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1I still use it. It's fine to me as a simple player.
    • barbapapa78, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I know why, because it still plays songs when you click the play button.
  • TweekyD, on 05/22/2008, -0/+6Amarok for everything everyday ... VLC for just everything :)
  • tcpip4lyfe, on 05/22/2008, -1/+12Just skip the list and install Amarok. Nothing else compares.
  • n8dude, on 05/22/2008, -2/+3What about Songbird? It may not be in there, but still, dugg.
  • reisrocks, on 05/22/2008, -1/+6mplayer + shell = awesome
  • Duositex, on 05/22/2008, -10/+1Talk about market saturation. Ten obscure pieces of software for an obscure OS that all do roughly the same thing? Ten? Really? How are any of them supposed to become popular when mediocrity is so common?
  • kevdotbadger, on 05/22/2008, -2/+321- 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)
  • aNoble, on 05/22/2008, -3/+1It's a bit of a different animal since it doesn't run on typical desktop Linux yet. But I think Canola ( http://www.openbossa.indt.org/canola/ ) deserves to be on this list.
    • iRelinquish, on 05/22/2008, -2/+1sorry, this is a top 10 list. not just a media player list
  • Peterix, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Srsly, MPD+Sonata+PulseAudio is a great combo. You can have one central server with all your music, play it directly there and stream to wherever you are at the moment...
    • wattersm, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1I like MPD with Icecast, the only thing I don't like is that I have to run something else to scrobble songs.
    • jdhore1, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1I agree with that as long as you disclude PulseAudio...Good idea, horrible execution.
    • RoyalAwesome, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1I prefer just mpd+mpc, to be honest. I just set up a couple global keybindings, set it to start up when my computer does, and never have to worry about it.
  • PARTyZAN, on 05/22/2008, -10/+9Amarok on 4th place? Buried.

    It just more than deserves that first place. There simply is no other audio player on all platforms that could reach the quality of Amarok. To author of this post: look out of that ubuntu hole every now an then, okay?
  • Huangism, on 05/22/2008, -8/+1buried for "top whatever" first commenter you suck
  • WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -2/+5amarok 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?
    • 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.
    • WomensUnderwear, on 05/22/2008, -2/+0of course it's a serious question. it's 2008 why is this stuff not done yet?
      • 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?
    • mardukvmbc, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Because it's freakin' hard... if you think it's easy, contribute some code:
      http://bugs.kde.org/simple_search.cgi?id=Amarok
  • tanman223, on 05/22/2008, -3/+2I tried looking at this and the site said the account was suspended
    • autoatsakiklis, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2Yes, but first you need to contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
      Seriously, this is digg and such problems happen all the time.
  • inkysplat, on 05/22/2008, -0/+3Amarok 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.
    • pcghost, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2I have a collection like that, and I simply setup a MySQL backend and all is well. Amarok is my podcatcher, music manager, player, zen manager, etc. It gets better with each release. I have tried most on this list, and I have to say it is the one thing we Linux users really should be bragging about. We have a lot of bad-ass programs in that list to choose from.
    • Acglaphotis, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Dump the default database and use MySQL.
  • viksmaester, on 05/22/2008, -9/+1Do you mean the-complete-list-of-audio-players-ever-created-for-linux ?
    • autoatsakiklis, on 05/22/2008, -0/+2I bet you don't know more than 10 players for your OS. And certainly you have no idea about Linux.
  • nickert0n, on 05/22/2008, -5/+6`can I haz mirror plz
  • InorganicMatter, on 05/22/2008, -2/+5Obvious GNOME bias in this article.

    Amorak is the best, PERIOD!
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