Comments on: The best Linux media players

By: kookcomptuer

kookcomptuer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:27:47 +0000

try listen-project.org. great music player, faster than exaile. amarok <1.4 is great, but i need a lightweight player and with amarok i get all that stupid kde stuff. cheers

By: Christian Alexander Tietgen

Christian Alexander Tietgen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:25:45 +0000

Your taste seems to be different from mine. For music I mostly use Amarok and for videos I use the normal video player.

By: stopthemjah

stopthemjah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:59:17 +0000

amarok 1.4 i’ts the best player, they shold put mashtape on it. like songbird

By: luzar

luzar — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:47:59 +0000

@ ed

Songbird is not Mozilla. It uses to open source xul runner framework that Mozilla develop. Also the songs portion is fine imho. Its plays tracks well, and once it does cd ripping and podcasts I will be using it full time. The fact is though if the songbird team ignored things like album art and other extras It would not stand out at all from any other music player, and this is what the extras are designed to do. There is only so much that can be done on the music playing side without completely reinventing the wheel.

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By: thedude

thedude — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:34:52 +0000

amarok sucks.

By: eru

eru — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:27:49 +0000

You forgot Amarok and Listen like audio players, there are good programs

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:07:34 +0000

no Amarok? blasphemy!

By: Olli

Olli — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:58:55 +0000

@jack

Personally I never had problems with my ipod and Amarok and these days, I don’t bother with the iPods anymore and Amarok still shines :)

By: NotZed

NotZed — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:48:58 +0000

Good list. Most of the newer ‘media players’ are rubbish, hard to compile, and don’t
support the right codecs out of the box.

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By: Fu4ny

Fu4ny — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:53:17 +0000

For gnome, I suggest banshee as the media player, i’m using it and i found that it’s the best music player, at least, it can read my itunes playlist.
As for kde, i suggest amarok, it’s the best player now, although the 2.0 version is a big failure.

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:20:04 +0000

What about Totem?

By: ed

ed — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:58:20 +0000

audio – banshee or atunes (for features..utube, etc)
video – mplayer w/ frontend
just say no to songbird until Mozilla focuses on the song (app) part rather than the bird (artwork/extras)
.

By: truzicic

truzicic — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:39:20 +0000

Lol, where did you left Amarok? Audaacious? XMMS is just plain ugly… We live in 21. century FFS…

By: BCK

BCK — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:42:58 +0000

Last I checked RhythmBox supported last.fm

By: jack

jack — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:31:13 +0000

hybrid-kernel: Songbird is a good alternative. It has some issues with stability I have found. Eventually that will be the de facto standard in Linux I would think.

Nuri.U: I left out Amarok for the same reason I left out gtkpod – reliability. On separate occasions I have had both Amarok and gtkpod fubar an entire ipod library. never had that problem with Banshee or Rhythmbox. I also find both Banshee and Rhythmbox compatible with more devices.

By: Nuri.U

Nuri.U — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:26:53 +0000

Hey dude where is it amaroK? :D

By: Paulus

Paulus — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:08:19 +0000

To bad that BSplayer (pro) is still not avalible for Linux, this because i think BSplayer has absolute the ferry best colors/vieuwing result.