I have recently installed Debian Linux/GNU on my PC and would like to know what media players are you Linux gurus using. I was using Windows Media Player 11 (I know shame on me, right) when I had XP installed on my machine but now its time for a change. I would like something that I can organize my songs in, because I've currently got roughly 10 gigs of music on my HDD but no media player (except the one included with the OS, and thats a media player to organize music in). Thanks for any suggestions, much obliged :)
And takes forever refreshing the media library every time you load it.. duplicating every song listed.. mine is now at 35 entries for every song.. I can't find a way to stop this behaviour either.
If you want nice and lean then xmms, but if you have added anything which installs kmixer the eq will be broken :(
Theres Exaile player as well.. I have it installed but can't say as I have loaded it up and looked at it yet
For listening to gigabytes of mp3's, xmms gets my vote; for listening to the radio i like realplayer or helixplayer depending on which pc/distro i'm using at the time.
I have Amarok as my main player, and it can be pain in the ass while re-reading all your files. I have tried Exaile, which tries to be a clone of Amarok only it is written in GTK rather than QT. I think it is still a bit buggy, and still has a long way to go. but when they sort it out I think it will be a good alternative to Amarok, but the features with Amarok are hard to beat.
hey KT, see you're still delving further into the *nix world.
I have a few machines with many hard drives, all networked, so xmms wins hand down for me, i like to keep things simple; 3/400GB of MP3's for me, however i obviously don't keep playlists for that lot, with so much tuneage i have to just pick what i want when i want a change
Hey Creaky, not so much delving as living in *nix world. don't use M$ at all in the house (unless on a lappy of the kids). Part of the Debian Linux Strikeforce (i am sure you can guess who the other member is lol)
