Favorite music player?

[Axeia]

What's your favorite music player? I quite like JuK for doing things in a slightly more sane way than Amarok 2.. (e.g. loading in the entire playlist on startup doesn't lock the whole application up) and for offering some nice tag/sort options. The undo option makes it feel more like an editor and is quite useful if you tend to make a lot of typo's.

Under windows I'm quite fond of Quintessential Media Player for its themeablity (somewhere in between winamp classic and the modern one) and because it has very advanced tagging/file naming functions allowing you set up templates for reading tags from the filenames and the other way around.. naming files based on their tags.

So what's your favorite, something as spartan as JuK, something as polished as Amarok 2 or perhaps something basic looking with a minimal footprint such as Audacious?

[ijbreakey]

Being a KDE 4 user ever since I started using linux at the end of last year, I've grown to love Amarok. I loved the first version with the customization and ease of use. Plus lyrics fetching and cover fetching! It was like heaven coming from windows. It's probably because I've only used KDE that I'm still sticking with Amarok, even when Amarok 2 came out and everybody was complaining about it (and some still are) I quickly got use to the new interface and now can't get over it.

My second bet would be with Banshee. Although it's quite slow on my computer, It's the only other music application in Linux that can sync up with my cheap chinese-ripoff-of-an-ipod mp4 (amv) player that I have.

I use to boot into Xfce on my older computer with older hardware and I'd use JuK with that because it was fast and easy to use.

Take Care,

Ian

[Sagemta]

I used to like Amarok,& I may return to it. I liked 1.4 it was perfect as a music player,simple easy to use.
But they went off on a tangent with 2 trying to be Songbird I guess.
A simple music player that's what I like so it's Audacious for me,followed by VLC, then Songbird.

[SLK021]

Amarok is the best but i always have xmms wen we dont get along

[Odd-rationale]

Of the ones listed, I like Banshee.

MOC is another of my favorites.

[Siminin]

I like Amarok most and Banshee if something goes wrong with Amarok. The context menu is really nice Amarok feature

[Axeia]

Originally Posted by Sagemta

I used to like Amarok,& I may return to it. I liked 1.4 it was perfect as a music player,simple easy to use.

Same, liked 1.4 (aside from a hotkey bug..) and 2 wasn't a worthy follow up.. till they added the filterbar back in. Then with some customisation (drag everything but the playlist to the side) it's nearly as good.. just no columns.

It's also why I like JuK, for normal use it's pretty much the same as Amarok 1.4, with an added sidebar that I set to treeview and find quite useful .

Originally Posted by Odd-rationale

Of the ones listed, I like Banshee.

MOC is another of my favorites.

Ran out of space for options, maximum is 10
Guess I should have replaced one of them with the choice 'other'

[Jonathan_R]

Really, your poll did not include my favorite player, so I went with my 2nd favorite. Kaffiene is my favorite. AmaroK is my second favorite. If amaroK could play videos, then it'd be my favorite. That's the only thing hold amaroK back imo. I like media players that can do it all. This way I don't need a player to listen to streaming media, and a player to listen to CD's, and a player to listen to files on my hard drive, and a player to listen , or connect to my ipod/mp3 device, or...I hope you get the picture by now. To me, that's crazy. One player that can do it all. Kaffiene doesn't do ipods/mp3 devices, so that's a detractor, but only a small one. It does every thing else.

[Axeia]

Different people, different uses, different wishes.

I for one hate it when my audio player gets 'defiled' by video support. All I want to do is add a whole directory (recursively), hit play and minimize it to tray.
Some kind of search/filter function and global hotkey support and I'm set for the most part.

Leaving out Kaffeine was intentional as it was about audio players, not mediaplayers. Of course some mediaplayers could make fine audioplayers as well so I'm glad you mentioned it.

[TaraIkeda]

Amarok used to be my fave but with the sucky amarok 2 I now favor exaile and songbird, sopngbird overall as even though it has it has its fare share of issues I still ike it much better then amarok2.