audio/video player recommendation (R.I.P. xmms?)
 

hey

could anyone recommend me a good music player? it could support video too but i dont really need that since i guess ill be using mplayer for that.

ive used xmms ever since. now i find out that it's been removed from the portage tree due to being 'dead' (you guessed it, gentoo)

i emerged mplayer. it sucks. i dont know why. either it's the way it looks or something (changing skins doesnt help). i still feel something is wrong with it. and why does it have to take up half of the screen, really wtf. other players are the same. xmms was wonderful.. winamp-like. that's what i liked, and that's what im looking for right now.

mplayer sucks when it comes to music. i use that to play dvds, does the job.

i use amarok on my desktop. it's OK. but all those.. media devices, lyrics, etc etc tabs and tricky options .. bloat. i want something else.

any recommendations? :S

... audacious?

hmm ..what about realplayer www.real.com/linux/ ?

I use audacious and amarok for music and MPlayer for video. I really like those, actually... But there's also xine if you want to try it...

Audacious is quite similar to XMMS so its worth looking at. Amarok and BMPx are also very good in my opinion.

just no, not cool

Mplayer doesn't suck, it just has no cool skins. Make one.

Technically, I love it, because it plays nearly everything out there.

I gave audacious a try, but over the weeks running it starts to suck up more and more CPU, so I stick with mplayer and hide the skin under an xterm.

MPlayer @ mplayerhq.hu

Music Player Daemon + any one of: Sonata, ncmpc, mpc, gmpc is what I use for music.
MPD is basically a server that plays music, and sonata, ncmpc, etc. connect to control it, not to listen. Also, you don't need X to use 'em!

They're all really lightweight, with the GUI clients (sonata and gmpc) being a little more resource intensive.
Also, check out SMPlayer. It's a nice vlc-esque front-end to MPlayer.