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Audio Player for Linux (Ubuntu)

Reply #25 –
Even though Amarok may not be perfect, it's quite usable nevertheless. No linux app that I've tried does even compare to that. Only the most advanced features could use some improvement, but the basics are definetely there.

I find it to be a nice thing that it's bloated. It looks great! Lately the biggest performance problems are solved as well. When I looked at foobar recently on a Windows machine, I thought yikes, what an ugly interface. It looks so typically 20th century. I do still remember I liked it for it does what it promises. And is technicaly almost perfect. But these days I want something pleasant for the eye as well. Windows users would have a hard time to match any free player to the beauty of Amarok.
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Audio Player for Linux (Ubuntu)

Reply #26 –
I too use Linux and Amarok at the university, and I really do miss foobar. I even like it that it looks so 20th- century as opposed to winamp or all the other players who are just eye- candy, but nothing more. And 95% of the time, the only thing I see from from foobar is the tray icon.

Audio Player for Linux (Ubuntu)

Reply #27 –
I also would recommend Quod Libet. It is simple, easy to use and handles huge libraries easily (and fast in my opinion). I don't think it has gapless support, although there is always room for improvement . There is an fairly extensive list of plugins too.
Quote from: Rasi on
Well.. Quodlibet is nice, but the one thing that keeps me away from it is: its very slow also
also the project seems to be dead..

The project is not at all dead - Mutagen 1.13 was released 2007/12/04.

Cheers, Arite.

Audio Player for Linux (Ubuntu)

Reply #28 –
I run GNU/Linux and *BSD on the desktop, but I have given up on all the audio players available. So I bought an old computer (P3 1GHz, 512MB memory), installed Windows and foobar2000 on it, and access it through Remote Desktop.

The box cost me next to nothing, and does the job very nicely.

Audio Player for Linux (Ubuntu)

Reply #29 –
you guys are funny