MP3 Audio Players in Linux
Written by BinnyVA on August 27, 2007 – 11:26 pm -There are no shortage of audio players in Linux. It has everything from command line mp3 players(mpg123) to RAM eating GUI players(like Amarok). With easily available codecs, linux supports almost all available formats.
I am going to do a series on the diffrent audio players available for Linux. This will focus on dedicated audio players - not video players that can handle audio as well(like mplayer).
The most popular audio players for linux are…
- XMMS
- A Winamp clone. Simple and user friendly, it is very popular on linux.
- Amarok
- Amarok is the most feature rich player on Linux right now. It is a KDE app.
- Audacious
- Another Winamp clone - this is actually a fork of beep-media-player.
- Banshee
- Music management and playback for Gnome
- Rhythmbox
- Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes.
- JuK
- An audio jukebox that supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files. It is a part of the kdemultimedia package.
- SongBird
- Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up.
- Exaile
- Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python.
- mpg123
- A fast, free console based MP3 audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Hpux and near all other UNIX systems.
I will explore XMMS in more detail in the next post.
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September 2nd, 2007 at 2:01 am
Congratulations and goodluck for the new blog! I love linux.. so keep writing great stuff while I get hooked into your blog
Cheers!!
September 5th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I think in Linux now-a-days its the case of “Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth”, I think the idea should be to try to follow the rule of “one-application-one-program”. A new user would be overwhelmed with the number of options available and end up not using any
September 5th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
@cafm
I would say this is true for Linux distributions - but I will not say that for audio players. Windows has a lot of MP3 players - more that Linux anyway. But in windows there is a clear winner in the lot - WinAmp. There is no such winner in Linux(maybe amaroK).
September 5th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
[...] the next few post, I am going to compare all the popular audio players available in Linux - and this is what I will be looking [...]
November 7th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
[...] since I could not try out this software, I stop now. If I could fix this issue before my series on MP3 Players for Linux is over, I will come back and post the details on this [...]
March 28th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
pls send ur new softwares
July 4th, 2008 at 11:39 am
So many choices, so little time to play with them. Is the audio quality the same with all of them or is that a silly question?