Best music player for Linux???

Khannie · 02-04-2010 11:45AM

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

Cant you use Amarok in GNOME if you have the KDE libraries installed?

Indeed you can.

Galen · 02-04-2010 12:18PM

I prefer to use Songbird in GNOME but I have tried moving to kde4 but gnome is still best especially Mint.

croo · 02-04-2010 12:48PM

Yeah, as others have said you can use amarok in gnome - which is the desktop manager I use. I haven't tried songbird to be honest, but the things I like about amarok are; the moodbar (very useful for finding a place is say a long classical piece), the lyrics finder but I case this pretty much the norm now, the great random track selection (lots of parameters), and perhaps my favourite the "random" playlist based on last.fm recommendations in turn based on what you are actually listening to. So you chose an initial track and then based on that it uses last.fm recommendations to pick the next track from your collection... I really like this.

Anyway a lot of people were disappointed with the version 2.0 of amarok and decided to stick with 1.4 I was really just alerting those to the new 2.3 release.

[-0-] · 02-04-2010 02:56PM

Depends on which box I'm on... mpg123, xmms or amaroK 1.4

pickarooney · 03-04-2010 10:15AM

I'm currently testing Guayadeque. Some excellent features and the developer adds new stuff every 5 minutes or so. A couple of minor niggles but it's well on its way to being one of the best players out there.

pljudge321 · 03-04-2010 12:24PM

I use Pana, which is a fork of Amarok 1.4 which has everything in it working. The Amarok 1.4 I had installed before had some of its functionality missing.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/pana-a-music-player-based-on-amarok-1-4.html

dioltas · 03-04-2010 02:30PM

I use Goggles Music Manager, it's really nice and it's lightweight.

http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/

pickarooney · 30-04-2010 09:10PM

I've officially (press release issued and signed by 4 witnesses) switched to guayadeque now. All it's missing is a crossfader and that should be implemented any day now. Check if out if you have a huge music collection and/or like being able to position all the window elements wherever you like on the screen.

evercloserunion · 01-05-2010 08:13PM

I use Amarok 2; I do indeed find it less intuitive than 1.4, but it has never occurred to me to downgrade. I will try 2.3 when I switch to 10.04.

I never understood the hype around VLC? it annoys me that playing 10 songs in VLC opens up 10 windows (or can that be changed)? I understand that it's very lightweight but is it as lightweight as command line mplayer?

kierank01 · 01-05-2010 10:31PM

evercloserunion wrote: »

I never understood the hype around VLC? it annoys me that playing 10 songs in VLC opens up 10 windows (or can that be changed)? I understand that it's very lightweight but is it as lightweight as command line mplayer?

Go tools, preferences, and tick 'allow only one instance'

bnt · 04-05-2010 11:43PM

I like RhythmBox for music, but I like to listen to podcasts in high-speed mode, so VLC is good for that. I wish RhythmBox were a bit better at handling files e.g. if I have a bunch of files in a single directory, that's an album, regardless of what the ID3 tags say.

jackrussell007 · 07-05-2010 01:17PM

bnt wrote: »

I like RhythmBox for music, but I like to listen to podcasts in high-speed mode, so VLC is good for that. I wish RhythmBox were a bit better at handling files e.g. if I have a bunch of files in a single directory, that's an album, regardless of what the ID3 tags say.

ohh dont get me started...i friggin hate that. I'd love if music players were more sensitive to the folder structure rather than just scanning your music folder and categorising them itself. I hate scrolling for ages through orphaned tracks until I find the album I want.

I use amarok on ubuntu9.1, not sure which version of amarok that makes it. to defeat the above problem I find I most often use the file browser in amarok rather than the collection browser.

pickarooney · 07-05-2010 01:47PM

jackrussell007 wrote: »

ohh dont get me started...i friggin hate that. I'd love if music players were more sensitive to the folder structure rather than just scanning your music folder and categorising them itself. I hate scrolling for ages through orphaned tracks until I find the album I want.

I use amarok on ubuntu9.1, not sure which version of amarok that makes it. to defeat the above problem I find I most often use the file browser in amarok rather than the collection browser.

Guayadeque uses the folders as albums structure and has an album browser.

JuneBug29 · 12-06-2010 10:11PM

Seen Guayadeque mentioned and i would like to recommend it. It is an amazing player considering the features and how little resources it requires. Has a smart playlist which i find very handy. As far as i know it doesn't support ipod's yet. Not a problem for me but may be for others. If that's not a concern i would highly recommend it. Lightweight, fully featured, fast, well able for huge libraries. Definitely check it out.

Jonathan · 13-06-2010 01:31PM

DeadBeeF

I've only discovered it recently, but it is enough to save me from running foobar2000 through Wine

Khannie · 13-06-2010 04:03PM

JuneBug29 wrote: »

Seen Guayadeque mentioned and i would like to recommend it.

Gonna check it out. Cheers. Looks a lot like rhythmbox on initial inspection.

woop · 13-06-2010 11:48PM

banshee, might be a small bit laggy but its great for device support

pickarooney · 15-06-2010 10:19AM

Khannie wrote: »

Gonna check it out. Cheers. Looks a lot like rhythmbox on initial inspection.

Be sure to get the SVN version; there have been over a thousand revisions since v0.25!

Oracle · 15-06-2010 06:08PM

Not sure about fully fledged music player, I just use whatever's installed by default. Although I do like Audacious2 for mp3 podcasts and downloads. It's very fast, easy to use and unobtrusive.

Naikon · 24-06-2010 07:21PM

The simple ones are the best for me. mpg123 = command line goodness.

Ruu_Old · 25-06-2010 08:26PM

I've been using Audacious.

Naikon · 25-06-2010 08:33PM

Rhythmbox is a good one if you have any Apple devices. Not perfect, but it does a good job at syncing most ipods. As Ruu said, Audacious is another good one. Don't use it as it's too complex(ie. I don't want all the extra whizbang features). Impressive though.

evercloserunion · 02-07-2010 05:22AM

Anyone know how to get Rhythmbox to display the window when you run it, as opposed to just open in the systray so you have to click the icon and explicitly tell it to show the window?

dregin · 02-07-2010 09:01AM

Been using banshee without complaint for at least a year now.

Eliot Rosewater · 02-07-2010 10:42AM

evercloserunion wrote: »

Anyone know how to get Rhythmbox to display the window when you run it, as opposed to just open in the systray so you have to click the icon and explicitly tell it to show the window?

There's a command line program for controlling Rythymbox called rhythmbox-client. Now they don't have an option to show the window, but just doing `rhythmbox-client` without any options seems to have that effect.

So I edited my menu option for Rhythmbox (under Sound & Video) from `rhythmbox %U` to `rhythmbox-client %U` and that seemed to do the trick. I hope it works for you!

I think rhythmbox-client is great. I've a few keyboard shortcuts set up using it, so that Ctrl+Alt+> goes to the next song or Ctrl+Alt+p plays/pauses.

Khannie · 02-07-2010 11:02AM

Ruu wrote: »

I've been using Audacious.

Did this used to be called something else? Looks just like winamp. May give it a spin. Having a few issues with amarok on my work machine.

mathie · 02-07-2010 11:19AM

Anyone know a good one that connects to Creative Zen players?

Eliot Rosewater · 02-07-2010 01:08PM

mathie wrote: »

Anyone know a good one that connects to Creative Zen players?

The Rhythmbox MTP plugin might work. The first time I used it it worked perfectly, however every time I plug in my Zen Mosaic now only 6 of the roughly 1000 songs I have on it are detected. If this happens you can still transfer music onto it but you can't delete anything on it, which means if your player is full (as is mine) you can't do anything.

Another alternative is gnomad2, which looks awful but does the job. On Ubuntu `sudo apt-get install gnomad2` installs it. You have to run it with superuser privileges though, so to launch it after you've it installed: `gksu gnomad2`.

I'm getting the same problem with gnomad2 that I get with rythymbox: only 6 songs are showing up. So this error is probably to do with Ubuntu 9.10 more than Rhythmbox. Which means that if you can't get the MTP plugin in Rhythmbox working you probably won't get gnomad2 either.

Bluefrog · 03-07-2010 12:59AM

Not sure if any other players mentioned have this but its a handy way to share music libraries across a network, upnp clients being a bit thin on the ground in linux - I know there is a plugin for VLC but it couldn't seem to make sense of what it could read from Mediatomb while other upnp devices I have had no issues with it.

I also like the convenience of the panel applet - I know you can use the music applet on a lot of different players but it takes up a bit more room than it really should there.

evercloserunion · 04-07-2010 01:40AM

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

There's a command line program for controlling Rythymbox called rhythmbox-client. Now they don't have an option to show the window, but just doing `rhythmbox-client` without any options seems to have that effect.

So I edited my menu option for Rhythmbox (under Sound & Video) from `rhythmbox %U` to `rhythmbox-client %U` and that seemed to do the trick. I hope it works for you!

I think rhythmbox-client is great. I've a few keyboard shortcuts set up using it, so that Ctrl+Alt+> goes to the next song or Ctrl+Alt+p plays/pauses.

Works a charm, thank you!

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