Mp3 player with Last.fm integration

Posted by MoiN 6 July, 2008 (2) Comment

Looking for a mp3 player with Last.fm integration? say hello to aTunes. aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.

It is is an open source program with a great and fully featured music player. One of the nice features about this software is that is has a Last.fm-powered recommendation engine. Features include, CD ripping, internet radio, audio podcasts, smart playlists, support for portable audio devices, and others.

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10 Best Linux Audio players

Posted by MoiN 21 May, 2008 (34) Comment

Featuring 10 of the Best Linux Audio players. Would appreciate your feedback through comments :>

1- 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.‭

 

Rythmbox Features:

* Easy to use music browser
* Searching and sorting
* Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
* Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
* Playlists
* Display audio visualizations
* Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
* Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
* Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
* Automatically download audio podcasts
* Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo

Official Rythmbox Website
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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.

Features:

* Metadata support, it can show artist image, album art, lyrics, etc.
* Plugin support.
* Fast, gmpc is optimized to work even on low end machines and slow networks.
* Profile support, easily use gmpc with multiple mpd’s.

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Official Website

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.

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