Need a good Linux Media Player

[dman777]

I want to make the big switch from Windows to Linux.

I use my computer mainly for Music. I have over 10,ooo songs. I've been an avid user of Winamp all my life. It is the most powerfull media player for me with all it's tools and convience it offers. Alot of people will ask me why I don't just stay with Windows, but as much as I am dependent on Winamp I want to use Linux. So, can anyone please tell me what I should do about solving my media player problem for Linux? I need one that is as powerfull as Winamp.

Here are the things I used most in Winamp:
Media Player Library
The plug in where you can rate your songs with "****"
The Playlists
On line music Streaming
The Search function in the playlist witht the letter 'j'
The option to enque a song with a click of the mouse wheel
FLAC files
Viewing the recentlying played lists
The plug in that allows me to exclude songs
The plug in that allows me to delete songs from the hard drive
The replay gain option in the FLAC plugin.

Can anyone help find a Linux media player that can do these options?

[ryan]

If you use Gnome.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/

[dlichterman]

Amarok is also pretty nice

[k_rock923]

VLC

[White Raven]

This machine has AmaroK on it, it works remarkably similarly to WA.

[zootm]

I use Banshee on Linux; it's probably more minimalist than what you want. If you're using KDE Amarok (no capital K) is nice but I find it unnecessarily complicated.

[Omega X]

Amarok hands down.

[fc*uk]

mp3blaster ftw.

[shadoweater]

Amarok is AWESOME. PLus it has cool streams so you can hit the chillout section and rolll a joint. Nice!

Peace

[zootm]

Originally posted by Omega X
Amarok hands down.

Why? I'm quite interested in what people see in that player. It is extremely nice in terms of features but I usually end up feeling that it's not as good to use as I wanted.

[shadoweater]

Originally posted by zootm
Why? I'm quite interested in what people see in that player. It is extremely nice in terms of features but I usually end up feeling that it's not as good to use as I wanted.

Its horses for courses man. If you hunt around you may find something you like. Maybe Mplayer/Amarok/Kaffeine/xmms don't fit your needs. Thats fine there are a billion players out there.

With Linux you have so much more choice than under Windows

Peace

[spiderbaby1958]

Some of my favorites.

Amarok will find all the audio files on your hard drive and put them in one menu.

xmms looks and works like winamp. I think it even uses winamp skins.

mplayer has a huge variety of essential codecs. It can play nearly anything, and works from the command line. If you know how to use the command line, that carries a lot of advantages in terms of progamming. It also has a nice plug-in for mozilla/firefox/iceweasel.

I think you want to try xmms first. I can't say for sure what plug-ins are available for it, but because it looks and acts so much like xmms, and you're looking to find xmms features, it's the first place to look.



After that, maybe amarok, because it's so incredibly feature rich.

There's a lot of awesome stuff available in Linux, but it's not always the same awesome stuff that's available in Windows. Detractors will tell you that Linux is a poor substitute for Windows-- and it's true, just as a violin is a poor subsitute for a harmonica. Most people can sort of approximate their Windows experience with Linux, but if you try to use Linux as if were Windows, if you let Windows shape your expectations, it's always going to be second best.

We've got a shitload of players, with a shitload of features. You may not find x y and z (then again, you may) but if you give it time, you'll find something that you like.

[k_rock923]

cat wav files to /dev/dsp

[zootm]

Originally posted by shadoweater
Its horses for courses man. If you hunt around you may find something you like. Maybe Mplayer/Amarok/Kaffeine/xmms don't fit your needs. Thats fine there are a billion players out there.

I use Banshee, as I said before. It's just interesting to me when people choose different things

Originally posted by shadoweater
With Linux you have so much more choice than under Windows

I don't know if I agree on that. Many of the Linux media players work to some degree or another on Windows, for a start.

Originally posted by spiderbaby1958
There's a lot of awesome stuff available in Linux, but it's not always the same awesome stuff that's available in Windows. Detractors will tell you that Linux is a poor substitute for Windows-- and it's true, just as a violin is a poor subsitute for a harmonica. Most people can sort of approximate their Windows experience with Linux, but if you try to use Linux as if were Windows, if you let Windows shape your expectations, it's always going to be second best.

This is an interesting point; I would argue that Gnome (not KDE, as far as I can tell) is actually as easy or easier to use than Windows or OS X. It is, however, a different mindset, as moving from Windows to OS X, or even from XP to Vista (the source of the vast majority of Vista complaints), is. Expecting the system not to change is never going to end well.

[EfaustuS9]

Amarok worked well with my Ubuntu install but if your feeling brave you could try mozilla songbird for it. The linux install will require some command line building.
Heres a review how-to if your interested.

[LeadFoot]

I've tried most of the players mentioned, and finally settled on Banshee (with Music Applet, a panel remote control that supports most of the players discussed here).

[neologix]

Originally posted by shadoweater
With Linux you have so much more choice than under Windows

the reason you have so much more choice is cuz windows only needs one - winamp - and linux does not yet have a media player as feature-rich as winamp, tho the previously mentioned amarok and xmms do come close, so there are multiple players, each with limited formats. as for os x, the best we have (to my knowledge) is itunes, and certain specialty players attempting to support multiple non-quicktime based formats (like audio overload for most videogame music formats).

[shadoweater]

Amarok has similar if not more features than winamp. I use both systems and readily yearn for a Win32 amarok client

[shadoweater]

Just to highlight also. Windows does not only need 1 player. It has realplayer, vlc, windows media player, songbird and itunes to name a few. Where do you get that there is only 1 media player under windows?

[zootm]

Originally posted by shadoweater
Amarok has similar if not more features than winamp. I use both systems and readily yearn for a Win32 amarok client

The KDE4 version of Amarok will run under Windows. I think it does to some degree already.

Edit:
More information: Blog post when they got it working

[cooky560]

I've been using rhythmbox in University labs because it comes pre-installed, and it's pretty neat.

[neologix]

Originally posted by shadoweater
Just to highlight also. Windows does not only need 1 player. It has realplayer, vlc, windows media player, songbird and itunes to name a few. Where do you get that there is only 1 media player under windows?

i didn't say there is only one, i said windows NEEDS only one, since winamp can play many video formats and pretty much any audio format. if and only if winamp doesn't have a plugin that supports a certain format rarely used for files (eg matroska mkv) or a certain format that hasn't yet been licensed for winamp plugin development (eg quicktime) then i get another free player such as vlc or quicktime player. once winamp and the right plugins are installed one should never need realplayer or wmp. i don't even know what songbird supports.

EDIT: someone pointed me to "powerplayer ii" for quicktime mov. i haven't yet tried it but i'm excited abt no longer needing qt player

[LeadFoot]

Exaile is rather nice as well

But you could also see this page , and see if anything gets you attention. If you want to compare features, this might help.

[zootm]

Originally posted by LeadFoot
Exaile is rather nice as well

I like Exaile, but it kept wedging itself and destroying its own config to the degree that it couldn't bring itself back up for me. Not the best.