Where is my music player?
I’m currently using amaroK. Now that’s a great player, and software HAS to be great for me to use a KDE program. Now, I have a music player, sure. The problem I have with amaroK is that it’s a KDE app. It brings along kded and dcop. That’s the bad part, kded crashes, dcop brings along alot of junk during startup that I don’t want, and it’s QT - so it doesn’t look as good as my GTK apps. KDE software is fine for KDE users, but KDE software is too bloated and such for other users. I’m still using amaroK, but I’d wish I could get something more. Now flame me, kick me, punch me - I’m still not going to say KDE sucks. I don’t like KDE, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it. But it shouldn’t mean that I can’t be allowed to prefer GTK/GNOME apps over KDE/QT.
I’ve tried quodlibet, it might be good, but it isn’t what I want, doesn’t have the features of amaroK that I like, nor an interface as easy to use as amaroK. I like the amaroK interface.
Rhythmbox doesn’t provide the same as amaroK, it gets too much in my way.
Okay, this rant is over, don’t take it too seriously. I’m happy with amaroK, but I’d really wish there’d be a good GTK/GNOME replacement for it, but, there isn’t - at least not for me, there might be for you.
March 3rd, 2006 at 19:21
I use Muine, but it probably isn’t great for someone who doesn’t listen the way I do (I always listen to full albums, I never mix stuff up). Did you try Banshee? For me it’s still not mature enough, but it sure _looks_ good.
March 3rd, 2006 at 19:31
Rhythmbox gets too much in your way? How is that? I use it for my collection of 20 GB of music and I rarely see it… As a happy user, I’m intrigued. Sure, it doesn’t handle editing of id3 tags (but I use easytag, fantastic app) or album covers, which don’t interest me, but as an easy to use player…
Is ths bother something regarding its handling of radio stations or mp3 players?
Saludos
Adriano
March 3rd, 2006 at 19:46
Adam, I’ll look into those, thanks :)
Adriano, rhythmbox doesn’t have a good enough way of finding my music imho. I like the way amaroK lists it Artist->Album->Track without taking up so much of the screen real-estate. Never liked the rhythmbox UI, donno why, but I never did :o. In the times I used beep-media-player I tried it and went back to having 5000 songs in beep-media-player over using it :P
March 4th, 2006 at 09:58
Zero_Dogg, do you mean the quick search function is too basic? I personally only have the problem that it doesn’t let me use operators to find more than one song at a time. But I solve it with the “Dynamic playlists” feature.
March 4th, 2006 at 18:17
Heh, Zero_Dogg, my thoughts exactly. However, even though Amarok is imho still the best player around, I switched to Quod Libet recently and now I’m almost completely happy with it, especially after I added quodlibet-plugins and qoudlibet-extensions (I actually got those from the Debian Sid packages, as not all the plugins listed on the quodlibet website appear to work correctly at the moment).
But, as you said, what works for me might not work for you…
March 4th, 2006 at 21:08
I just have found a player for gnome :
http://listengnome.free.fr/
I don’t think you will like the UI, but one never knows…
March 5th, 2006 at 15:51
It seems there is a lot of gtk/gnome music players lately :)
Here’s my favorite : http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.html
June 26th, 2006 at 17:04
http://www.exaile.org/index.rb?command=news
Aims to be a gtk clone of amarok, using wxGTK.
June 26th, 2006 at 17:08
Thanks mike! Weee :)
August 1st, 2006 at 18:15
listen music play is the ultimate imo,
some people like banshee, but i find it a ram whore like most mono apps