Audio Media Player Application of the Year
 

What do you use to listen to audio?

--jeremy

mplayer

Please keep in mind the polls are not going to be open until next week. We're simply posting the nominees to get feedback before voting begins.

--jeremy

I don't see ogg123.

Xmms
Qmmp
Gogglesmm
DeadBeef

mplayer

ogg123 has been added.

--jeremy

Banshee ... Just because the name is cool :) (Also I like almost all the features)

RhythmBox. Has playlists, album art, visualisations, "jukebox mode" :-), and other things I associate with a versatile audio player but isn't a bloated mess like Amarok (OK, little bit of bitterness there).

I like and use Amarok.

Juk is a nice, simple and light player.

mpd + ncmpcpp

For simplicity, MOC...I also use and like Audacious.

Big thanks to Clementine team for bringing back from the dead the best music player.

I wanted to vote for mplayer but I do not see it. Or perhaps the name has been changed or perhaps again I am too sleepy :)

mplayer is in the Video Media Player Application of the Year category.

--jeremy

Where is gogglesmm?

amarok or clementine when in kde, cmus when on battery power :)

amarok !! good one

Hi,

RhythmBox here.

Kind regards,

Eric

Windows Media Player...

kidding, I use VLC

Audacity, for radio, local stuff and because all the stuff can be organised in tabs, your selection stays there (VLC makes you rebuild your list) and...it works...

Now this category I don't think I can vote in ... I kind of like RhythmBox, Banshee, Guayadeque, Amarok and Audacious and I've begun to try out Exaile and Clementine ... but I'm not really happy with any of them.

LOL

Couldn't have said it better myself. :)

mplayer and Clementine

Gogglesmm is my favourite - all the features I need and very quick and light on resources.

where are VLC and Mplayer??

ps. used to like Audacious, but it's a cpu hog

While you definitely can play audio in VLC and MPlayer, these are not their main uses.

The info on MPlayer website says:
VLC says:
Ok, this one actually mentions audio but I guess VLC is mostly used as a video player (IMO) and therefore belongs there.

As Jeremy mentioned a few times, it's difficult to come to a consensus (that would please everyone) as a lot of programs span a number of categories.

In the Video Media Player Application of the Year category.

--jeremy

VLC

VLC

Discovered cmus last year and fell in love with it. It has everything I need from a music player (love vi-like key bindings!).

I vote for Audacious. A use also XMMS and Amarok. For a chance someone know what is the difference in XMMS and XMMS2? I alway play and minimize so I never compared...

any chance to include emacs? I listen music from there too xD (is a joke)

I like Clementine as well as Audacious and RhythmBox.

Regards
Philip

MOC is all I need.
For some reason I don't like using GUI audio media players.

Banshee is slow and clunky and buggy, but it's still my choice. It works better than the others I've tried. I primarily listen to podcasts with my audio player, and Banshee's playlist/music library handling works best for a library that changes every day.

Rhythmbox can't seem to grasp the concept that I'd want to delete an audio file as soon as I'm done listening to it.

I agree. GUI is not really helpful in playing music, IMO.

If the GUI can display album art, it can be useful information. Here's a screenshot of one I'm working on:

http://duganchen.ca/quetzalcoatl-2-0-screenshot

Nice work and I'm sure a lot of people will find it useful but it's not appealing to me. Personally I either actively LISTEN to music (no need for any distractions) or passively listen to it in the background while doing something completely unrelated (again no need for GUI). The really rare occasions when I want to look at the album art or lyrics do not justify the need for running an audio program that would keep connecting to the internet or unnecessarily hog my resources.

Obviously, these are my personal preferences and I'm aware that a lot of people might find such big programs like eg. Amarok genuinely useful.

shell-fm, and moc. Other than mplayer/smplayer and vlc I do not have a GUI audio player installed.

Agreed. Love Clementine.

+1

Geeze... all this fondness for curses based stuff - we must be old Unix grey beards or something...:cool:

I use mplayer in command line to play audio but its not in the list.

Active music players for linux:

Amarok
Aqualung
aTunes
Audacious
Banshee
Beep Media Player
cmus
Clementine
DeaDBeef
Decibel Audio Player
Exaile
gmusicbrowser
JuK
Listen
mpg123
MPD
MOC
Music Player Daemon
Quod Libet
Rhapsody
Rhythmbox
Sonata
XMMS
Zinf

MOC, the Midnight Commander of audio players, more lightweight than the GUI players mentioned here. Should be a close race this year with Clementine and 2010 winner Amarok being the main contenders.

Close one between Exaile and Audacious but Exaile gets it.

Clementine :-D love it!!!!

Banshee worked straight out of the box with no need to consult help files. I've been a long time paying user of Mediamonkey on windows but can't get it to work nicely with any of the distros I've tried. Hohum.

My choice is Exaile