mp3 player program

jasonsexton · 09-10-2006, 11:39 PM

I am new to Ubuntu and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a good mp3 file player program? I was using Media Monkey with Windows and loved it. I have not yet found anything that compares to it. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Jason

binary_y2k2 · 09-11-2006, 12:46 AM

My favorite music player is Amarok, it's a KDE application but works just as well with Gnome. It supports editing tags, playlists, lyric lookup, artist lookup (on wikipedia), playing from (and sync to) portable media devices and tones more. Take a look to the project [url="http://amarok.kde.org/"]web page[url]
To install, use synaptic or:

Code:

sudo apt-get install amarok

Micro420 · 09-11-2006, 01:41 AM

I agree. Amarok is a really awesome media player!

b0uncer · 09-11-2006, 02:13 AM

In addition to that, you probably want to install the extra codecs to be able to play mp3-files etc.

Code:

sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs

If you're using Gnome, Rhytmbox is quite a nice app too. It differs a bit from Amarok (which is a great player, but tends to be not-so-nice when used in Gnome environment -- my own experiences) but I liked it. There are also tons of other choices, like mplayer. And in case you didn't know (but you did, right?) already, Amarok uses the Xine engine (on Ubuntu 6.06 at least, if you didn't change that manually) so you can install other "front-ends" to Xine easily.

X.Cyclop · 09-11-2006, 12:43 PM

Add extra repos and type:

Code:

sudo apt-get install amarok w32codecs libxine1c2 libxine-extracodecs

choey2k5 · 09-11-2006, 03:51 PM

I really like Xfmedia that comes with Xubuntu. I tried RhythmBox, XMMS, Totem, etc. Xfmedia was very light and featureful. Players wouldn't recognize non-unicode tags, so I needed one to disable tags and just show filename. RhythmBox didn't do that, and I'm not sure about the others, but Xfmedia did that.

As a bonus, it's a very video player, too =)