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Audio player for Linux

Hi!

Which audio player for Linux is most popular ?
Can anyone help me to choose a best player for my Linux?
How player is most usable ? Which codecs is supported?
Lossless codecs must be supported.
Are have analog for Apollo or Foobar player ?

Thanks in advance,
-- Pavel

Audio player for Linux

Reply #1 –
XMMS and Rhythmbox seem to be two of the most popular ones I've seen. They both seem to support many formats; for example see XMMS' list of input plugins.
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Are have analog for Apollo or Foobar player ?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.
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Reply #2 –
Amarok seems to be nice, it supports anything GStreamer supports (so you need GStreamer and plugins installed). But, to be frank, I was never able to properly use it, it's tagreading fails on creating a db of my songs.
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

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Reply #3 –
Some more interesing projects:

LAMIP - one of the most interesting players ATM
musik - wxWidgets based player
Cjukebox - console player using XMMS input PlugIns
muine
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." Or maybe your words.

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Reply #5 –
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Amarok seems to be nice, it supports anything GStreamer supports (so you need GStreamer and plugins installed). But, to be frank, I was never able to properly use it, it's tagreading fails on creating a db of my songs.
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Just on a sidenote: I managed to solve my problems with Amarok - it seems that when it found a file of a non-supported type (e.g. mpc), it simply quit. And it is _very_ sensitive to malformed tags - this might be TagLib's fault or my fault too. I simply added the missing plugins, ran gst-register, removed folders of mpc-files from the folders to scan, and it works well now. I hope this helps someone.
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

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Reply #6 –
The last version of amarok is really good ! 
Ok, you have to install the last "CVS" version with the last taglib (1.3). You also need the arts plugin "akode" to read musepack files ...

But with these settings you have a nice player (cover management, music database, audio streams ...), that 's able to play mp3, ogg, flac, MPC (!!!) ...

Not as good for now as foobar but for today I think that amarok is really the best player for gnu/linux ...

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Reply #7 –
I really like Rhythmbox. It supports all the formats I use, it fairly fast and has a good solid library and playlist support. It doesn't have flashy visulizations and such things but I wouldn't use them anyways. I also like Amarok but it was very buggy last time I used it.

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Reply #8 –
beepmp [http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/BMP_Homepage]
great fork of xmms.

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Reply #9 –
Is it possible to read musepack files with rythmbox or beepmp ?

I ask this because I have lot of files in this format and for now I  can read them only with xmms and amarok.

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Reply #10 –
There's a beepmp PlugIn available on the official Musepack site.
GStreamer PlugIns won't happen before SV7.5 because of incompatibilities.
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GStreamer PlugIns won't happen before SV7.5 because of incompatibilities.
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MusePack support is available in GStreamer Plugins 0.8.6.
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I hope this will make Amarok happy
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

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Reply #13 –
Im interested in installing the gentoo distro on my 533MHz celeron.  Does the rhythmbox audio player work on gentoo and does it support the following audio formats?

mp3
mp4/aac
flac

Thanks

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Reply #14 –
Use Google or something. Answer is "yes" for all.

edit: though installing gentoo on that computer will take quite a long time...
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

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Reply #15 –
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GStreamer Plugins 0.8.6 Release Notes http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/...gins/0.8.6.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143961

MusePack support is available in GStreamer Plugins 0.8.6.
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But it contains a few critical bugs, and doesn't read tags. I would advise waiting for gst-plugins-0.8.7 (or cvs) which already support musepack better.
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Reply #16 –
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Use Google or something. Answer is "yes" for all.

edit: though installing gentoo on that computer will take quite a long time...
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Excellent thanks

True, it will take a long time to install, but the end result with probably be faster then all other operating systems

Thanks again

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there is absolutely no reason to build gentoo for an old system

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there is absolutely no reason to build gentoo for an old system
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Are you sure?

I've read certain reviews which say that gentoo is excellent for old systems because its probably the fastest linux distro!

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Reply #19 –
Amarok does support musepack. You have to use the arts engine for playing files though. I expect musepack will be supported with gstreamer too, now there is a plugin for. With gstreamers musepack support, things are finally looking bright for music players on linux
A secure audio ripper for linux: code.google.com/p/rubyripper

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there is absolutely no reason to build gentoo for an old system
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Are you sure?

I've read certain reviews which say that gentoo is excellent for old systems because its probably the fastest linux distro!
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It should be the fastest in theory, because it so uber-tweakable. But I have read a few reviews that benchmarked different Linux distros and Gentoo turned out to be the slowest distro every time.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

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there is absolutely no reason to build gentoo for an old system
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Are you sure?

I've read certain reviews which say that gentoo is excellent for old systems because its probably the fastest linux distro!
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It should be the fastest in theory, because it so uber-tweakable. But I have read a few reviews that benchmarked different Linux distros and Gentoo turned out to be the slowest distro every time.
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Is that because they didnt use state 1?