Planning on moving to Ubuntu. What's recommended and available from the repositories?

Does it have?

* Cue-sheet support (if it can read embeded cue sheets in FLAC or WavPack files, even better)

* Music transcoding (lossless to lossless and lossless to lossy -- if it can support Nero AAC encoder out of the box or via a plugin too, fantastic)

LOL. I was about to reply that you should use Amarok, but upon reading your post I don't know of any (single) player that will do what you want.

This would be why Foobar is one of my killer apps for Windows

I'm on Ubuntu and I've tried Gnome's Rythmbox, Amarok and Audacious so far.

Amarok was okay but then it started acting weird (didn't start anymore) so I switched to Audacious. Audacious looks like the old WinAMP, supports quite a lot of formats including CUE sheets. There're also nice plugins available like "global hotkey", and "scrobbler".



I still miss Foobar's mass tagging / transcoding features. That's why I occasionally use Foobar2K unter Linux (wine).

Cheers,
SG

On Hardy Heron + Wine Foobar2000 works fine for me. No soundstutters.

I use this because no other player has the features I want

Edit: There is a topic abaout that in the foobar2000 general section

Foobar2000 under wine is certainly an option.

Quod Libet is also worth a look, and has cuesheet support - but none of the transcoding support you are looking for.

Another vote for wine+foobar2000. It worked fine when I tried it (running Hardy Heron 64-Bit), except that it crashed when the Album Art viewer was enabled. I already used it to transcode ape->lame mp3, but there could of course be problems with other command line encoders.

Audacious looks like the best choice I think. It does have cuesheet support and can transcode to wav/mp3/vorbis/flac with the filewritter plugin.

Aqualung might be another option but no idea if it's in ubuntu's repositories.

IIRC, audacious' cue sheet plugin is buggy, and the filewriter plugin isn't bit-perfect. To be confirmed though.

MPD & Sonata, GMPC

cmus, foobar2000 under WINE, or Quod Libet would be your best options, in my opinion.