Audio Media Player Application of the Year

Hevoos · 01-26-2008, 06:50 AM

MPD with mpc, there's nothing better. A daemon that plays music, even after you have logged out! AmaroK is good if you want some kind of a music player with GUI.

Takla · 02-01-2008, 02:57 AM

I voted for Audacious because it plays everything, does it as unobtrusively as you like and can live in the tray. There's a good set of plug ins, the OSD is highly configurable. For a music player which is also a music collection manager/tagger etc Gmusicbrowser is pretty good (if a little odd at first), it should be on the list.

code933k · 02-01-2008, 10:24 AM

Do you want a GUI? gmpd, do you want a great multi FX audio application? That's MPD+alsa+ladspa!

Login, logout, who cares? MPD server is great. MOC is my second best. Then, perhaps Exaile and BMP (Both of them, the last one is getting very interesting).

Some people preferred a machine resources drainer: That's amaroK IMHO. (no flames, pure reality)

shadowsnipes · 02-01-2008, 02:16 PM

I tend to prefer simpler audio media players that don't try to organize your stuff in libraries and whatnot, so I prefer the winamp/xmms style. Audacious is my choice and it is installed in Slackware 12 by default.

Another one I really like that is not on the list is herrie, which is a really nice command line music player. I encourage anyone looking for a CL music player, or just a lightweight music player, to check it out. It has the features you would expect from XMMS except for the GUI and skins

lurid · 02-15-2008, 01:57 AM

I used to use XMMS until I got Kubuntu. Then I found out how much more I could enjoy Amarok.

me1040468 · 02-15-2008, 03:04 AM

I came across this quote I'd like to quote here:
"there are 2 kinds of people in this world- those who love amaroK and those who don't matter".
I love amaroK.

PicatrixSomoza · 02-15-2008, 03:28 AM

Exaile has my vote. A awesome surprise of last year.

alan_ri · 02-15-2008, 08:49 AM

Amarok.Simple and powerful.

arijit_2404 · 02-15-2008, 09:09 AM

Amarok is my favorite.

diilbert · 02-16-2008, 03:51 PM

Amarok. Coming from Windows and Winamp, this is an awesome alternative.

jasohl · 02-18-2008, 04:18 AM

I used to use noatun because it was simple. But Amarok is full of features and easy to use. it plays steams, downloads podcasts, and has a good library system. though i haven't found a plugin to make Amarok shut off after an elapsed time. noatun had a sleep plugin. best i can figure out in Amarok is to queue an hour's worth of songs and hit 'stop after queue.'

themouser · 02-18-2008, 04:56 PM

I've liked amarok for a long time, but also xmms. been finding I can play more on xmms2 lately.