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#1 2009-06-26 07:56:16

Olnex
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Best music player for Gnome?

I've reinstalled Arch with Gnome, before I was using Rhythmbox because I used to be a Ubuntu user and Rhythmbox is its default music player, this time I want to try something different, so can anyone suggest a music player for me? It does not need to be bleeding edge, but it should have more or less the same features as Rhythmbox. I heard Amarok is a good one, but I don't want to use Qt based applications in Gnome.

Thanks!

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#2 2009-06-26 08:55:26

kowalski
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Well you might try exaile then. It aims to be somewhat similar to amarok but both use a different approach for managing the playlist than rhythmbox does.

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#3 2009-06-26 09:24:22

SpeedVin
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Hello
You can use Audacious/2 (Version 2 is in AUR)
Sonata
Exaile
That's must be GUI player?


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#4 2009-06-26 10:09:06

Tyriel
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Exaile is my favourite music player... wonderful if you have a large collection that you want to keep organised.


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#5 2009-06-26 10:10:02

Allan
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

quodlibet

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#6 2009-06-26 10:35:34

folletto
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

gmusicbrowser - my favourite smile

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#7 2009-06-26 10:57:26

DonVla
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

+1 for gmusicbrowser!!!
the most underrated music library manager and player for linux!

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#8 2009-06-26 11:05:03

Murray_B
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I mostly use cplay :-)

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#9 2009-06-26 12:11:28

DevoidOfWindows
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Gmpc.

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#10 2009-06-26 12:21:51

bangkok_manouel
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

[OT]I love those threads, you always end up with the full repo list big_smile [/OT]

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#11 2009-06-26 12:51:20

Nepherte
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

mpd + ncmpcpp big_smile

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#12 2009-06-26 12:54:50

DonVla
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

bangkok_manouel wrote:

[OT]I love those threads, you always end up with the full repo list big_smile [/OT]

hehe, so true.

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#13 2009-06-26 13:09:50

the_isz
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

DevoidOfWindows wrote:

Gmpc.

That's what I use, too.

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#14 2009-06-26 13:22:43

sHyLoCk
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Songbird


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#15 2009-06-26 13:24:54

Rasi
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

sHyLoCk wrote:

Songbird

I hate the songbird devs since i asked them why oss4 does not work while it is working just fine with gstreamer (and songbird is gstreamer based)
Their answer was: we dont support obscure setups, get pulse-audio... bye bye songbird.

anyway: gmpc is a great frontend for mpd, quodlibet and gmusicbrowser are both brilliant too...


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#16 2009-06-26 13:52:01

arkham
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I've always used exaile/audacious on gnome.


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#17 2009-06-26 14:15:22

sHyLoCk
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Rasi wrote:
sHyLoCk wrote:

Songbird

I hate the songbird devs since i asked them why oss4 does not work while it is working just fine with gstreamer (and songbird is gstreamer based)
Their answer was: we dont support obscure setups, get pulse-audio... bye bye songbird.

anyway: gmpc is a great frontend for mpd, quodlibet and gmusicbrowser are both brilliant too...

But it looks great though, but I guess I understand what ur saying.


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#18 2009-06-26 18:23:54

Nepherte
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

@Olnex If you didn't get the underlying message: there is no "best music player for gnome". There's only the "best music player" that works for you. And there is only one way to find that out, i.e. try everyone of them until you find the one that suits you most.

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#19 2009-06-26 18:47:31

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I use the exaile-beta and like it quite a bit. I am an amarok fan but don't like haivng to load a ton of libraries just for one application.

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#20 2009-06-26 19:02:17

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

+1 for exaile


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#21 2009-06-26 19:47:23

SiB
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Sonata is pretty nice. It has a really clean and simple interface.

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#22 2009-06-26 22:17:49

Mefju
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

If you don't fear mono, maybe banshee is for you.

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#23 2009-06-27 04:03:41

ashunter
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

DonVla wrote:

+1 for gmusicbrowser!!!
the most underrated music library manager and player for linux!

+1 again

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#24 2009-06-27 06:44:24

AngryKoala
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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I use banshee, nice graphical equalizer and good interface

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#25 2009-06-27 06:50:23

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I'm backing Songbird; it is still early days but I reckon it is worth a look (& a listen)...


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