[smoke12291]

I'll be making an install of ubuntu shortly, and I realized that winamp and foobar are windows only programs and do not work on linux without wine.

are there any good native linux music players that are as good as winamp or foobar?

thanks in advance!

 

[Lord Xeb]

I use Xbox Media Player and/or Amorok

 

[Gill..]

Rhythmbox comes with it and works great - I like it better than Windows Media player... and I have so much music, older versions of Winamp haven't worked for me in a couple years.

Rhythmbox should work right out of the box - you should not need to install anything additional

 

[japan1]

I also use rythmbox, another one to check out though is songbird.

 

[smoke12291]

those all look pretty nice, I really like songbird's GUI. But do any have ipod support?

 

[Sheehanigans]

All have ipod support with first gen and lower nanos, and 5th gen and lower classics. iPhone/touch only if jailbroken methinks.

I use songbird, btw. Love it. Banshee wasn't stable enough to manage 12k songs and I didn't like the amarok gui.

 

[smoke12291]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sheehanigans All have ipod support with first gen and lower nanos, and 5th gen and lower classics. iPhone/touch only if jailbroken methinks. I use songbird, btw. Love it. Banshee wasn't stable enough to manage 12k songs and I didn't like the amarok gui.

good thing I don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch then

thanks for all the responses, reps to ya.

 

[francesthemutes]

Most recommendations I ever come across are for Amarok. And a new version just came out not too long ago.

 

[Lord Xeb]

Amorok to me is like iTunes which I use but it annoys me a little...

 

[Gizmo]

I would go for Songbird or Amarok. I personally loved Amarok's GUI, but found Songbird a bit ehhhh...I've never been fond of iTunes either though, so perhaps a skin change would have solved that.

Regardless, I feel that feature wise, Amarok can't be beaten. I either use that or Foobar on my windows rig.

 

[ImmortalKenny]

I use Songbird on my MacBook and it's quite nice. It's like Firefox, you can download extensions and themes for it.

 

[The Master Chief]

I like the songbird that comes with it or else Rhythm box. I have Ubunut Ultimate and that comes with 3-5 music players already on it.

 

[WeirdSexy]

foobar is so perfect, i never got it working with wine though, granted thats the only thing ive ever tried to get working with wine.

 

[mkdir]

mpd/mpc, mocp

 

[Prolog]

Eh, if he were to go the MPD route, ncmpcpp would probably be more of what he's looking for. However, @op, the features that you seem to want out of a music player are rather different than what MPD and its clients can provide.

In your case, I'd say Banshee or SongBird.

 

[Korben]

Songbird worked well for me when I tried it, I couldn't believe Foobar didn't have a linux version. Someone should get on that because Foobar is awesome and linux is awesome so they both need to be together lol.

 

[-iceblade^]

rhythmbox can have my babies...

not really, but it's really really good as a media player. Banshee is also really good, and there is also songbird as others have mentioned, along with Exaile and Amarok...

i don't think it'll be all that hard to find a player that works well for you tbh, there is so much choice in the repos.

 

[pow3rtr1p]

Aqualung. It's like the VLC of audio players.

If you want to keep your entire library organized within the Media Player, though, better use Rhythmbox.

I need to find a better CD Ripper in Linux, though. Rhythmbox is pretty good, but I had some skipping on CDs I've never had any issues with before, and skipping fixed in CDs that have never worked perfectly outside of EAC. Very inconsistent ripping utility in Rhythmbox.

 

[JerseyDubbin]

Amarok is my favorite but Songbird is a close second. Both have great plugins/support for different types of media.

 

[xSevasTra]

Amarok ( Great if you have a HUGE collection, helps keep it organized)
XMMS
VLC
Rythmbox
Audacious (I use this)
Audio Overload
BMPx
Helix Player