There are many music players available for Linux. But there are some of them that just rock. This is my Top 5 listing of them.
Number 5 » Gnome Mplayer
Gnome Mplayer is one of the most basic and versatile player available on every Debian/Ubuntu based distro. It can also play videos of a number of formats. As it is a stock media player there are no advanced playlist features, etc., in it.
Number 4 » Audacious
Audacious is one of the few music players on Linux that has tried to imitate Winamp like skinning ability. In fact, old Winamp skins can be readily applied to this media player! Apart from that it has a decent sound quality, nice interface and plugins for extra functionality. It is very lightweight so even older machines can run it pretty well.
Number 3 » Decibel Audio Player
Decibel is a not-so-popular music player in Linux world and the only reason why it is number 3 on this list is its features. This player is very light-weight, with excellent sound quality, has extensible plugins and can play using playlists and file listing both. In fact it has an inbuilt file explorer so that you don't have open a file dialog again and again if you like to play files directly from file system instead of playlists like me.
Number 2 » Exaile
This music player has been around even before I started using Linux, that is, 6-7 years ago. The player has a nice easy interface with a simple empty playlist for you to fill and a window on the left with tabs for playlists, file system, online radio, etc, basically lots of sources you might use to play music. Not only that, it's playlists are very advanced in overall functionality and it has so many plugins for improving your music playing experience. All this comes with a comparatively small memory footprint.
Number 1 » Amarok
Saying anything about this music player is not enough to describe it. Very popular in the Linux world, Amarok is the "king of music players" for most *nix users. Bundled with almost everything you will expect from an advanced music player, it can even get you song, artist, album, etc., information from internet and also you can get lyrics right in the application! However, there is a small limitation (bug?) reported by users that the repeat button in it is either not found or does not exist :D
Hope you liked this little countdown and maybe it helped you choose a media player for your system. Sorry if I missed any other player that is good enough to be in this list. Please let me know in the comments!
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Number 5 » Gnome Mplayer
Gnome Mplayer is one of the most basic and versatile player available on every Debian/Ubuntu based distro. It can also play videos of a number of formats. As it is a stock media player there are no advanced playlist features, etc., in it.
Audacious is one of the few music players on Linux that has tried to imitate Winamp like skinning ability. In fact, old Winamp skins can be readily applied to this media player! Apart from that it has a decent sound quality, nice interface and plugins for extra functionality. It is very lightweight so even older machines can run it pretty well.
Decibel is a not-so-popular music player in Linux world and the only reason why it is number 3 on this list is its features. This player is very light-weight, with excellent sound quality, has extensible plugins and can play using playlists and file listing both. In fact it has an inbuilt file explorer so that you don't have open a file dialog again and again if you like to play files directly from file system instead of playlists like me.
This music player has been around even before I started using Linux, that is, 6-7 years ago. The player has a nice easy interface with a simple empty playlist for you to fill and a window on the left with tabs for playlists, file system, online radio, etc, basically lots of sources you might use to play music. Not only that, it's playlists are very advanced in overall functionality and it has so many plugins for improving your music playing experience. All this comes with a comparatively small memory footprint.
Saying anything about this music player is not enough to describe it. Very popular in the Linux world, Amarok is the "king of music players" for most *nix users. Bundled with almost everything you will expect from an advanced music player, it can even get you song, artist, album, etc., information from internet and also you can get lyrics right in the application! However, there is a small limitation (bug?) reported by users that the repeat button in it is either not found or does not exist :D
If you liked this post please share it with your friends too. Till then, Goodbye :)
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