no mpd :(

I know it's kind-of designed for remote access but I love the way it works in both X and console.. and it has some nice frontends ( sonata my current fave )

You were going to vote for an AmaroK clone, but since it isn't available...XMMS??! Not AmaroK?

XMMS is a great one

xmms, but I also use mpd and ncmpc

I agree that both VLC and mplayer deserve the opportunity to compete as audio as well as video players - both belong at the top of either category. Also, how about madplay?

Amarok it is the best audio player. I like philosofy: audio player for music, video player for video.

noatun please

I used to be XMMS through and through, but recently Amarok has stolen my heart :)
I would probably have removed KDE from my box if it weren't for Amarok

Amarocks!!! :cool:

Although it may be a little premature for this year, I think Songbird (http://www.songbirdnest.com) is going to be a big player as soon as they get a 1.0 release out. A browser based on Firefox, audio on GStreamer...Ohhh, heaven!

Anyway, Rhythmbox is awesome and gets better everyday.

Yes, cause that's what I use. Exaile and XMMS. I'd use AmaroK if I didn't want to keep my Xubuntu slim and without any KDE apps. On a more powerful box, sure I'd give AmaroK another shot.

1 vote for amaroK - although it still has some problem with the collection after every upgrade

I would go for amarok since I got tired of xmms a long time ago. Amarok is most probably the best I have played w/ yet.

Audacious is kind of XMMS reborn, so I love it!

WOT no Banshee?
 

I really like Banshee, but I guess Amarok comes real close

Banshee is the bottom option on the list.

--jeremy

Xfmedia should have been there. It's the Xfce media player. Quite nice and fast.

I use XMMS and since i don't know about other players i'll vote for xmms and i'll try the new ones this year

quodlibet
 

Since quodlibet isn't in the list, I'll go with Amarok...

Hello,

I use XMMS alot, but the program I have enjoyed the most is called mp3blaster. It is a ncurses program that will play mp3's and maybe wav (it has been hit or miss, mostly miss, with that format). It is small and very efficient at what it does.

amarok :) only one that i use

I voted for Amarok because it's big, has full optios but my computer works quite slow. I also use mocp Music on Console Player. It has quite goods ncurses interface.
http://moc.daper.net/

I voted for xmms. Enyoed mp3blaster a lot.

request for listen media player not falling through?

had to vote amarok, but Juk was a CLOSE second.

Xfmedia is still missing (in either Movie Player or Audio Player).

amaroK rulez!!!! and mpg123 when no X... :D

Although I don't use it, you'd think Xfmedia, being the default media player of the major lightweight DE, would have at least made the list....

AmaroK
 

Just works, especially with the integration to lastFM.

I like JuK because it isn't as resource-intensive as Amarok and it has better integration with KDE.

I voted Juk because it just works... I tried Amarok, XMMS, and much more other mediaplayers but I find out that Juk was the most stable media player

XMMS all the way.
It is perfect for me - stable, VERY FAST, plays everything i need it to, has lots of plugins.
Now, amarok is pretty good as an idea but is a bit slow and buggy...
And the sound quality is not as near as good as this in XMMS (At least on my system).
Plus, the amarok equalizer's pretty weak, I think.
The only bad thing about XMMS I can think of is it's rubby fonts, because it is written in GTK1. I've tried Audacious and Beep, BMPx but they all have their problems and are slow.
So, for now: XMMS. I hope the other players continue their development and come to a phase when they're fast and stable enough and play everything.

Totem with the xine backend will play just about anything I throw at it, which makes it the best in my eyes.

I can't believe mocp is missing. If you want to listen to music (as opposed to sort it and watch it) there's nothing else for it.

My vote goes for amaroK

Could mpd (Music Player Daemon) be added, please.

I agree with Niko.

What about SongBird? IMO nothing on linux even compares. it is still in a dev version but c'mon we're linux peeps ain't we?

And what about Exaile and Quod Libet?

amarok 4ever :D

be serious. exaile was in beta until 2 days before this poll was opened.

Haha, so what, gmail is still in beta, would you leave that off a list of "best webmail apps"?

I would have voted for exaile, but since it's not in the list I have to pick my second fave Amarok.

What, ALSAplayer isn't even a choice?
 

Most of the audio players listed here have pretty interfaces and good to excellent file-handling properties, but AFAIK if you want to vary the pitch on streaming (or other) audio, or play an audio file backward ALSA is the only player which does that. Also I like the relatively clean, uncluttered GUI frontend for ALSA. Why was ALSA player excluded from consideration?:scratch:

thats a terrible comparison:

gmail, which has little to no bugs and has been in "beta" for an extremely long time, even though its known to work exceptionally well.

and exaile, still buggy, just out of beta at .2, and reletively new by anyones standards. Exaile crashes where other players dont -- not because its a bad app, just because its so early in development -- and you cant honestly say an app that crashes where others dont is better than said other application...:rolleyes:

Beep-Media-Player-X? (BMPX)

That's the problem with these polls, and I am not saying that you should not do polls. But the selection of the options is always subjective. It happens that the audio applications are not in the options. Exaile, Quod Libet and mplayer, which was limited to the video app category and it cannot apparently be here too. I'd vote for amarok since it's the best out of the options given, but it would be unfair to give another vote to it when it is not actually what I think.

I use Exaile and it has done very well for me. I have 15Gb of music and it does fine, and I also like its interface which is similar to amarok's (one of the greatest without a doubt) yet it's simpler and has the main functionalities already available. It hasn't crashed for me not a single time and the only thing I do not like from him is not being mainstream (and I dislike the icon too).

And what do you say about Quod Libet? It has a tiny little thing I've always dreamed of: quasi-intelligent tag-names handling and editing, being able to extract tag information from the folder and file names, and vice versa.

And both have the advantage for me of being gtk instead of qt. What can I say? I have nothing against qt (in fact I use k3b because no cd-burner for gnome is better than k3b) but I happen to use gnome and I happen to like all my applications to share the same or a similar look. Yes, I'm spoiled.

WTF is gstreamer an option? It's a library, not a player. I mean, there's command line tools that you could probably use to play music, but saying that you use gstreamer to listen to music is sort of like saying you use ALSA to listen to music. Duh!

amaroK is the one for me! I like the interface and it does what I expect a media player should.

Vivat Rex
Long live the king -- Amarok ftw

Last year I shifted from XMMS to 'Amorok', however I've now reversed this. XMMS simply seems more trouble free and intuitive to me, possibly it's because of it's similarity to 'Winamp' which used to be my choice on the other OS.