What's your favorite audio player?

Jan 21, 2011 By LJ Staff

amaroK

22% (703 votes)

Banshee

10% (339 votes)

Exaile

4% (138 votes)

MOC

3% (93 votes)

RhythmBox

25% (819 votes)

Songbird

3% (104 votes)

XMMS

7% (243 votes)

other (please tell us which one in the comments below)

25% (825 votes)

Total votes: 3264

Comments

ALL Music Player

Submitted by josdem (not verified) on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 18:55.

I want to share with you a new cool music player for Linux, it has more than only play music, you can also browse remote libraries from your friends even download their music, also has connection to Facebook and Twitter. http://www.all.com/

Favorite player

Submitted by mipesom (not verified) on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 06:59.

Guayadeque is my favorite music player.

Quod Libet!

Submitted by GDR! (not verified) on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 09:11.

Quod Libet! http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/

gmusicbrowser.org

Submitted by staubi (not verified) on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 13:43.

I tried many, but after having found gmusicbrowser I don't miss any features I had before on other players (before moving to Linux I used Foobar)...

Give it a try! Also very nice little community behind the project;-)

MPlayer and Audacious

Submitted by Rob (not verified) on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 07:17.

I normally use mplayer to play podcasts or videos, particularly now that I have written a front-end (mostly command line) which will remember where I quit a media file if I have not completed playing it! Unfortunately I haven't yet released this app. or I'd post a reference here :(

If I want to listen to a music files on my netbook, I prefer the minimalist approach of Audacious.

The best (for me) is :

Submitted by Donald Duck (not verified) on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 13:22.

Windows Media Player !

of course !
indeed !!

Cmus

Submitted by Sharlo (not verified) on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 04:51.

Cmus

Audacious or DeaDBeeF

Submitted by LightningRose (not verified) on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 18:22.

Audacious and DeaDBeeF are both very light, no-nonsense, no needless frills, easy to use programs.

If DeaDBeeF remembered where it was in the playlist after shutdown and restart, it would be my favorite.

Both are fully compatible with the Select-o-Magic 3000 audio file playlist creator.

http://som3000.sourceforge.net/

mplayer and noatun (which I don't really like so much)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 15:53.

mplayer and noatun (which I don't really like so much)

MPD

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:13.

With various clients.
I have yet to settle on a client.

1st - Audacious 2nd - VLC 3rd

Submitted by Miguel Ferreira (not verified) on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 08:35.

1st - Audacious
2nd - VLC
3rd - SMplayer

Audacious is simple to use as an audio player, and it just works on Gnome. VLC is great for movies and configuration, hyper versatile.

SMplayer is also great with lots os options and functions.

cmus

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 07:01.

cmus

Audio player

Submitted by jannewmarch on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 04:39.

I use vlc and mplayer. I also stream into my Web browser from my NAS, which often uses totem. Not one of those are on the list!

Favorite Player

Submitted by Angela Kahealani (not verified) on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 20:31.

The CLI based mplayer, which I usually run from my own BASH scripts which manage all my media.

Cmus a gret ncurses based

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 12:14.

Cmus a gret ncurses based audio player with commands similar to vim

Gmusicbrowser

Submitted by DanielR (not verified) on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 12:10.

gMusicBrowser is simply put the best player available. It is fast, lightweight, flexible, customizable, hackable, and intensely powerful. To me, it is the killer app that requires me to have a linux VM on any other OS boxes I run.

clementine!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 07:52.

amarok 1.4 using qt4!

VLC it plays everything

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 16:20.

VLC it plays everything

DeaDBeeF - Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux

Submitted by Soos (not verified) on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 14:13.

DeaDBeeF - Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux

The best is ...

Submitted by RexOfRome (not verified) on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:04.

The best is Cowon JetAudio (free) but since I switched to Ubuntu I wanted something similar. I tried many of the listed audio players but they are all flawed. I ended up with Audacious, small, simple and easy to use.

Audacious

Submitted by Jimage (not verified) on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 07:54.

Because it is pretty coolgut.

XBMC - X-Box Media Center on Linux

Submitted by Spider (not verified) on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 11:28.

XBMC is nice when you want a media center approach. The library functions nicely, it has great eye-candy, and downloads fan art and info from various sources using plugins.

ncmpc

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 10:20.

ncmpc

MPD and Theremin

Submitted by Sohron (not verified) on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 09:55.

I like MPD, so I can control it with one of many clients over the network. Clients I like are QMPDClient, Theremin (which i use currently on my Mac controlling MPD on my home OpenBSD server) and sometimes just plain mpc.

tunein

Submitted by skd (not verified) on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 02:20.

tunein for android
the best stream player I know

Music On Console

Submitted by ZafX (not verified) on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 01:33.

MOC: it look like midnight commander, it's blue, it's under a console; on left you have the files, on right you have playlist. I like it because whatever i make my graphical desktop suffer, music don't stop. And i can easily control it with my phone via ssh without moving form sofa...

Clementine FTW

Submitted by ElderSnake (not verified) on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 05:12.

Chalk another one up for Clementine for pure music.

Also Mplayer and VLC for the rest. I'm particularly impressed with Mplayer's versatility.

pithos -

Submitted by tjbonzo (not verified) on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 01:07.

pithos - http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/
A pandora client for linux.

favorite audio player

Submitted by anomiyous (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 22:53.

Clementine for streaming radio and playing music library.
Streamtunner and streamripper to record music from radio streams.

I've used Exaile for a long time, loved it, but the streamripper is broken with no fix in sight.

Favorite audio player...VLC

Submitted by gustavoc (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 18:32.

I use VLC for audio, video and streaming. I find it very powerful, easy to use and customizable.

favorite audio player

Submitted by lahcen boulhian (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 15:47.

qmmp

Audacious 'cause its small,

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 15:25.

Audacious
'cause its small, fast and clear UI

Agreed

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 13:38.

Audacious is my player or choice

Yes man, this is the world

Submitted by Lisander92 (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 20:01.

Yes man, this is the world best audioplayer. These guys didn´t write it down in the list.

VLC

Submitted by rolesp (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 13:45.

I use VLC for both audio and video.

rolesp

Dragon Player

Submitted by Arvi Pingus (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 13:10.

Easy, simple, no nonsense.

Audacious, because it is

Submitted by Alex K (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 12:01.

Audacious, because it is small and light, and just what I need to play back my Open University audio files for French.

VLC again

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 10:53.

VLC of course!!! I don't understand why in not included in the options list. VLC is the best "multimedia" player (not just music, but video, online radio, online video, etc.)

VLC may not have the "bells and whistles" of other players, but does the job simply and efficiently on most audio (and video) formats.

+1 for Clementine

Submitted by Patricio (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 10:33.

Clementine!!!!!

Favorite Audio Player

Submitted by Lawrence H. Bulk (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 10:15.

I use VLC exclusively, both for audio and video. It plays just about every kind of audio file simply and conveniently. And if I can hear it via VLC, I can record it.

Aqualung

Submitted by phisi (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 09:04.

I like gap-free playback and playing around with LADSPA plugins
http://aqualung.factorial.hu/

Clementine

Submitted by coolant (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 08:52.

Clementine

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 05:02.

Clementine is the one 4 me!

vlc, is second best for me. It too, lacks above ability in its command line interface.

mplayer also starts up faster than many of the other players.

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