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cliffbreaker

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From: Tiraspol, Transnistria

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 52

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Well , I vote for banshee -the best for me. has everything i need and some nice features

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AngryKoala

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Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 197

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I'm on kde and using banshee =/  amarok doesnt cut it for me yet, especially since it has no equalizer

Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

Posts: 342

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I use mpd in my desktop (that's usually more like a server) and control it with sonata from my laptop, for local files I use audacious.

gofree

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2008-07-26

Posts: 51

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

banshee-git from AUR, even better

jondkent

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From: London

Registered: 2005-09-13

Posts: 123

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

mpd/Ario is my mix, though I'd admit Ario is not the most pretty is does what i need

Themaister

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 652

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Sonata/MPD

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guzz46

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 190

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

goggles music manager, my new favorite

theDBANfan

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From: Gold Coast, Australia

Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 22

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

NOT Rythmbox. IMHO It sucks. Amarok is pretty good. Banshee is even better.

majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 259

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Cat.

Close second is rhythmbox, personally. Never explored too much though, after trying amarok in KDE.

in3

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 7

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I run foobar2000 in wine. Nothing else is even close, unfortunately.

I used mpd + sonata for about six months, but it can't seem to sort music in a sane way so I had to give it up. But if you were happy with the minimal sorting capabilities of rhythmbox, mpd with some client (I'd recommend sonata) should certainly suffice.

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

while i agree that banshee is a pretty neat player, it has no last.fm radio support anymore... and that isnt going to change soon. As a paying last.fm customer that is a needed feature for me.

So i continue to use amarok until mpds implemetation of last.fm radio is finished (Its working already, but stops after every song)

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Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I run foobar2000 in wine. Nothing else is even close, unfortunately.

I used mpd + sonata for about six months, but it can't seem to sort music in a sane way so I had to give it up. But if you were happy with the minimal sorting capabilities of rhythmbox, mpd with some client (I'd recommend sonata) should certainly suffice.

Quodlibet comes to mind...

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eDio

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From: Ukraine, Kyiv

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 422

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I'm searching for a good player/organizer right now...
MPD is really great, but graphical frontends are good only for listening music, and not for organizing my collection.

I have found both exaile and quodlibet are great, except that they cannot play to specified audio device, only to default one.
I have 2 soundcards (alsa) and I don't want youtube, games, films, etc. to be played via my professional soundcard, but audio player have to play via it.

Can anyone suggest me something? TNX.

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graysky

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From: :wq

Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,600

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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.

+1 for exaile.

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

I'm searching for a good player/organizer right now...
MPD is really great, but graphical frontends are good only for listening music, and not for organizing my collection.

I have found both exaile and quodlibet are great, except that they cannot play to specified audio device, only to default one.
I have 2 soundcards (alsa) and I don't want youtube, games, films, etc. to be played via my professional soundcard, but audio player have to play via it.

Can anyone suggest me something? TNX.

Way to bump an 'oldish' thread.

Try Pulseaudio, for an easier 'redirect to card' experience. Try modifying .asoundrc if you're masochistic.

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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

mpd + ncmpcpp

"MPD + ncmpcpp" is my absolute favorite so far. I use ossv4 and it's the best my music has ever sounded on Linux.

I've also tried:

banshee
exaile
bmp
audacious
listen
rhythmbox
vlc

banshee does work very nicely with my iriver T-30 (crappy old music device). It detects my device the minute I plug in the usb, and it's easy to drag and drop music files into.

Last edited by methuselah (2009-08-22 04:19:46)

in3

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 7

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Quodlibet comes to mind...

Nah, it's got nothing.

ignus

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 29

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Exaile. It's a lightweight Amarok.

ZeroCool

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From: Bad Münder Germany

Registered: 2009-08-18

Posts: 23

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

1+ banshee-git

The best tool for organizing my Zen Micro with MTP firmware. Also good for managing Podcast and Radio

Tip

The current banshee-git package copied the banshee logo not to /usr/share/pixmaps. The result is that when Banshee is minimised to the panel you habe a red cross instead of the Logo. The Banshee logo must be copied by hand, unzip the logo out of the created package (/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/media-player-banshee.png) and copied to the pixmaps folder.

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: Best music player for Gnome?

Exaile is FTW! Also google's music manager (gmm) is pretty good too, but it's not a GTK app (it uses the fox toolkit, which is very light, but it might not bledn in very well with your theme. It's definitely at least worth trying though)