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View Poll Results: Audio Media Player Application of the Year
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Amarok
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367 |
48.80% |
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Beep Media Player
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3 |
0.40% |
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Rhythmbox
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88 |
11.70% |
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XMMS
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52 |
6.91% |
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XMMS2
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16 |
2.13% |
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mpg123
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14 |
1.86% |
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juK
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6 |
0.80% |
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Audacious
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68 |
9.04% |
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cmus
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1 |
0.13% |
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Banshee
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26 |
3.46% |
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Songbird
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43 |
5.72% |
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Exaile
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27 |
3.59% |
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MPD
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36 |
4.79% |
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Aqualung
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5 |
0.66% |
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01-07-2009, 01:28 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
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Audio Media Player Application of the Year
What do you use to listen to audio?
--jeremy
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01-08-2009, 10:30 AM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Raleigh, NC
Distribution: CentOS 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Posts: 770
Rep: 
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no mplayer?
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01-08-2009, 10:32 AM
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root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
Original Poster
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mplayer classifies itself as "A movie player for Linux". Yes, it can play audio, but it's not suited to be in the audio player of the year poll.
--jeremy
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01-08-2009, 10:35 AM
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#4
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Raleigh, NC
Distribution: CentOS 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Posts: 770
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ahh.. its really the only thing I use to listen to audio 
I guess out of this list I would choose xmms then.. |
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01-09-2009, 01:51 PM
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#5
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Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
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XMMS2 with xmms2tray and gxmms2
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01-09-2009, 02:06 PM
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#6
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,089
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Exaile - for its ease of use and playlist management
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01-09-2009, 02:56 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,562
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Where is Quod Libet?
Among the given ones, I choose Songbird.
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01-10-2009, 02:35 AM
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#8
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 14.0
Posts: 855
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Audacious.
I don't use the media library applications - for two reasons:
1) I get a lot of sound files in for a short time and then erase them again. Makes no sense to waste resources updating the library constantly.
2) A lot of people - with podcasts and audiobooks (especially from the otherwise excellent PodioBooks.com) do the file tagging extremely poorly, and the media library shows these files with unknown authors and authors with variations in the spelling and naming. |
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01-11-2009, 07:38 AM
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#9
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 167
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I voted exaile since I'm using it, but I've also used and liked mpd/sonata in the past. I guess I only changed because I distro hop a lot and mpd is sometimes a pain to set up.
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01-11-2009, 12:11 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: bbsr,orissa,India
Distribution: RHEL5 ,RHEL4,CENT OS5,FEDORA,
Posts: 1,261
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xmms is the winamp of linux
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01-12-2009, 09:20 AM
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#11
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using fluxbox, icewm, i3 and wmii
Posts: 275
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xmms still produces the best sound output on my box, but I like using mpd with ncmpc
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01-13-2009, 02:33 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 478
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What for those who choose mpg321 over mpg123?
And no vorbis? I use ogg123 as much as mpg321, depending on the file type.
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01-14-2009, 10:46 PM
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#13
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: My HDD...
Distribution: WinXP for designing, Linux for life.
Posts: 2,329
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No VLC? Its my everything-player. Couldn't live without it.
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01-15-2009, 02:20 AM
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#14
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: South Africa
Distribution: Debian; DSL; Ubuntu
Posts: 11
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Rhythmbox moves my beats. also links well with my ipod
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01-15-2009, 02:31 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Northern IL
Distribution: Arch64
Posts: 106
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Used Amarok for awhile, still can't find a decent EQ for it without jumping through a bunch of hoops a la LADSPA, JACK, etc.
Ergo, back to XMMS...I hear they actually updated it a year or so ago.
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