Comments on: 10 Best Linux Audio players

By: Abhishek Pathak

Abhishek Pathak — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:25:38 +0000

While Amarok appears bloated on Gnome,its is perfect for the KDE users.Audacious and Songbird win the battle for me!While Linux players are right on top in music tasks,internet synchronisation and ripping.burning facilites, they can do with better and more intuitive interface designing,on the lines of songbird,Foobar 2000 and Amarok.

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By: hasanm

hasanm — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:20:23 +0000

Songbird is the best !!

By: Pedro Mendes

Pedro Mendes — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:18:41 +0000

Thanks for Exile info !!!

I’m loving this player. Nice option under gnome!

By: dean white

dean white — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:03:14 +0000

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By: Ujjwal Kanth

Ujjwal Kanth — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:57:48 +0000

SONGBIRD beats them all.
Try it. It has plenty of addons can be entirely customized.

By: KevMaverick

KevMaverick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:45:17 +0000

For playing or organising a large collection of music, I always use the brilliant Songbird. For a default player, VLC can’t be beaten.

What is even more useful to me, is that both programs run great on both Windows XP, and Linux, so everything is familiar and easy to use.

By: gekko066

gekko066 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:23:59 +0000

Thumbs up for Quod Libet if you are an Ubuntu user… The only audio player that can manage a large music collection, fast and stable. I tried them all: Rhythmbox (can’t load a large collection, too many folders missing), Amarok (nice looks, too slow, crappy playback and mutes flash sound in firefox), Exaile(quits sometimes for no apparent reason), Audacious(what am I supossed to do with this?), Juk(is not on the list but it has the same problem as Rhythmbox)… Haven’t checked Sonata, Banshee, BMP or GMPC, I don’t know what to tell you there, I’m happy with Quod Libet, the only audio player with an original idea: “Are you tired of audio players telling you how to organize your music collection?”. – Yes, I am.

By: Fsck

Fsck — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:14:23 +0000

Without the presence of VLC I’d have abandoned Linux entirely… for having no decent audio player. And VLC is more like an ultimate app for single / video files, not someone’s last resort for an audio player with a convenient playlist ui (ie not VLC).
Kaffeine was the only app intelligent enough to list what it lacked in order to play mp3s, others are either vague or silent. But having dealt with the codecs.. Rhythmbox can’t even skip/jump through music (makes you realise how dreamy Windows is). Same for Totem. Audacious is… vegetative – is it meant to do something? Amarok, which drags half of kde with it but I could deal, never picked up on gstreamer or xine. Might give it another chance in actual kde.
To anyone who’s happy with their player, only to then have a problem with low maximum volume, try installing a mixer for one of Linux’s generic audio drivers (alsa/pulseaudio), you may find additional volumes set mid-way. (Even with all volumes at max it’s not impressive…)