Best Music Player in Linux
 

What do you suggest?
Amarok?
Banshee?
VLC?
Something as good as iTune or Real player.

I wonder why Real player does not support Linux?

Here is a good place to start.

But seriously, RealPlayer? Don't they just use Helix code anyways?

Here is a good place to start.

But seriously, RealPlayer? Don't they just use Helix player code anyways? RealPlayer exists on Linux too, so I don't know why you said they don't support linux.

Yes, Amarok really Rocks!
Helix player is no longer available for linux.

Comparison of audio player software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...layer_software

Hi,

I've never used "iTune". I think I haven't used RealPlayer in more than ten years, from memory it was pretty nasty. In recent years I've been using moc. http://moc.daper.net

Evo2.

XMMS. (Though actually I mostly use VLC these days.)

RealPlayer no longer supports Linux and there will be no new releases, but older RealPlayer code is available from Helix in sources and *.rpm.

I have and use RealPlayer for Linux because there are audio sites (mostly "Old Time Radio" sites) that are locked into Real formats.

Frankly, I think Real is losing ground these days. I cannot grieve that.

Got debian file or not?

Of course:
moc - ncurses based console audio player
moc-ffmpeg-plugin - ncurses based console audio player - ffmpeg plugin

Make sure to man moc once you install it.

Seriously? As far as I'm concerned both of your preferred players
are the pits, and anything I've used on Linux beats them hands down.

iTunes is the reason I haven't used my iPod in a year, and use
my android phone for music instead. ;D

For music on Linux I mostly use xmms (no, not xmms2).

Cheers,
Tink

I thought that is was possible to get real media files playing with mplayer? I dont know for sure, I havent touched a .rm file for years, and I dont recall running across any real media format stuff online for years either.....

+1. I'd rather use amarok than itunes or real player, and I dont like amarok at all.

I mostly use deadbeef with linux. I'm a huge Foobar2000 fan with windows, and I even ran it under WINE for a while, but deadbeef is easier to setup, and I've figured it out I can get it looking similar to my prefered Foobar layout.

I like Clementine a lot. I alternate between that and Amarok.

Amarok is good choice for audio player and VLC is good for playing video files. And you can install real player on linux. Who says linux doesn't support real player.

r u sure?
where can i get the debian file?

Ofcourse, Damn sure! Why don't you google yourself?
Here what I found when I searched on google:
http://wiki.debian.org/RealPlayer
http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-ins...ian-lenny.html

If you google for this topic you'll find lot more.

From that link

Sagre and etch are totally obsolete.

Lenny is out of support as well (as of 06-02-2012).

If you follow the "First you need to download .deb package from here" you'll get this in the link-

Which will probably be just as out of date as what you found.

As far as I know and can tell, frankbells post is 100% correct.

I havent checked with current debian stable (squeeze). With sid, there is no real-player in the debian-multimedia repos, or even helix-player.

I never tried, since I had access to Real for Linux, and it was ever so much less obnoxious than Real for Windows--it didn't try to call home to Seattle and didn't try to run hidden processes like its Windows big brother. It just sat there and played, which is what a player should do.

Real formats, in my experience, are the among most encumbered and most closely guarded of the common codecs.

What can u get from http://wiki.debian.org/RealPlayer
is too old,
now it is version 15 in Windows.

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IT is written:
RealPlayer for Linux has been discontinued and is no longer supported. Archived copies are available for download in the Helix community.

Even if you could get realplayer 15 for linux now, it wouldnt be the same as the windows versions.

Have a look at the native linux players, you should find something that works for you. And/or post what you are looking for in a media player, someone might know one that looks/performs the way you want.

Another one to check out is Nightingale (aka Songbird). If they could work out some of the annoying issues, like the ability to upgrade without losing your whole media library, then this would probably be my choice. I'm afraid for it's long term success, there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in it... though the same could be said for any media player, they're almost all fly-by-night deals (developers here one day, gone the next).

Clementine isn't that bad either.

Although I have only used it a few times, I thought iTunes wasn't that bad. If you ripped out the store integration and some of the other bloat then it would be decent I think. Reasonable UI and featureset. I especially liked the DJ/party playlist mode where you can organize the upcoming songs in real time and people could do requests. No Linux version or even an equivalent though.

Franky the situation ain't great, all the choices suck.

mplayer is the best IMO. It's simple.

I'm pretty sure I had played some real audio files a couple of months ago using VLC. Old stuff that I'd had from years ago. As for a music player I tend to use either Clementine or Amarok with an overall preference of Clementine.

Banshee is the default player in Ubuntu.

I loved Amarok before it changed, now it annoys me. I moved to XFCE when KDE4 came out though so now use Rythymbox, which seems to do almost what Amarok used to (I like to shuffle play and queue songs at the same time, for example).
I'd still recommend that anyone looking for a media-collection type player take a look at Amarok though.

Audacious. Simple and fast, it is basically winamp lite for Linux. It has a playlist and it plays music. Not a screenful of different sub windows that try to "organize" every sound on your hard drive ala itunes et al. It uses the Winamp keyboard shortcuts.

BTW there are those organizer types for Linux too - Guayadeque, Rhytmbox, Exaile all work well (but a bit heavy for my tastes).
And i should mention Umplayer (a smplayer-spinoff) because it has Shoutcast (and youtube) support.

Audacious (i have version 3.2.1) has that feature, you select the entry and press alt+q, the entries will be queued, almost like in Winamp.

Rhythmbox also has a party mode which does the same thing.

Thanks for mentioning Audacious, I haven't used it since last century. Since the Rhythmbox tray icon vanished I've been looking for something I can integrate better into my XFCE setup and Audacious seems to fit the bill. It even has Conky integration :D.
I'm not sure whether being like Winamp is something to recommend it though. ;)

Winamp (lite with the classic simple interface) is very good at playing music and being out of the way on Windows. Thats what i was referring to not the mega bloated full version.
BTW IIRC Audacious even supports Winamp skins (never tried it i just use the simple GTK interface).

I was being a little facetious -- I do recall Winamp being better than Windows Media Player and some of the others at the time.
I know Audacious does have a Winamp-alike skin already and when I install new packages I see mention of "Winamp-Skins" (or something) from apt so I do wonder.

xmms1, Audacious, and the old Beep-Media-Player could all use Winamp skins.