Any good media players?

escapingsummer · 2011-01-18 19:52:00

I use parole for video and my dvds, but does anyone have any good music players they use? Aside from Rhythmbox and Banshee.

pcybill · 2011-01-18 21:38:16

Quod Libet has been my player of choice for a few years now. It took me awhile to warm up but I use it exclusively now. Depending on your distribution you will probably find it in your repository.

kellemes · 2011-01-19 10:52:24

mplayer?
Using gnome-mplayer as frontend myself..

vlc is a fine option as well.

escapingsummer · 2011-01-20 04:04:03

I have been using Exaile for a while. I have thought about audacious but I don't really care for the winamp feel so I am hesitant to swap to it.

punx69 · 2011-01-20 12:00:43

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
http://pragha.wikispaces.com/

both without gnome and gstreamer dependencies.

escapingsummer · 2011-01-21 21:59:00

I swapped to Quod Libet and I am very happy. Exaile kept crashing Alsa and I don't really like rythmbox. Banshee is too bloated for me too. Thanks for the suggestions. I checked out what you linked me to punx69, however Quod Libet suits my fancy : )

arinlares · 2011-01-22 05:52:45

I'm a big fan of CMus. It loads the whole library like Rhythmbox, but doesn't take up any space at all. I'm also quite partial to Deadbeef.

picilli · 2011-01-22 06:03:35

escapingsummer wrote:

I have thought about audacious but I don't really care for the winamp feel .

What winamp ? Audacious look and feel depends on the skin and nothing else. While it can look like Winamp, as it is a default in some distros, in other distros the default skin is something completely different. Audacious in GUI just like gmplayer cannot run without some skin. Any skin as a default is good enough.

It is either this or this <---(both are Audacious), or anything else depending of the skin. Winamp skins compatible though, but Audacious has no original look and feel that would reasamble winamp, unless you accept winamp's skin as a default. It looks and feels the way you choose it.

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escapingsummer · 2011-01-24 04:57:48

I used an unskinned version of audacious and didn't much like it. It was the default theme supplied with the program, I don't even have any winamp themes on hand to even test it with, and I was aware that it depends on nothing that winamp uses, but the first few seconds of using it that is what came to mind. I am not saying its not a good media player, it just doesn't feel appropriate for me.

arinlares I checked out CMus and I liked it, is it completely command line? I didn't read the documentation yet because I have to go to bed but if you answer before I read the information on it please fill me in : )

demosthenese · 2011-01-24 14:09:40

+1 for Quod Libet. Not much in the way of bling but it is well featured.

DasFox · 2011-01-25 00:46:15

I've played with just about every player out there and foobnix is really great...

http://www.foobnix.com/welcome?lang=en

They're changing as we speak the menu so that it will be changeable. I submitted some requests and they're taking me up on that one, now I'm waiting on them to make it so you can see album cover art...

CHEERS

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