Well, I’ve seen a lot of discussion on Banshee and Amarok in the applications area, and I thought it would be cool to ask the question: which do you prefer, Banshee or Amarok. Also, does anyone use Amarok on Gnome or Banshee on KDE? Just a good discussion on the pros and cons of each media player.
So with that, which do you prefer?
Amarok is the best media player I’ve used on any platform. I love the internet integration, the context views, the library features, etc.
Basic video playing is a nice new feature, and I’m not sure why people insist a music player must be separate from a video player.
The only feature I’d like to see added is to use a samba/cifs/nfs share as your music collection. I have to mount it to /media/foo instead, and I can’t get that to mount automatically at boot despite a fstab entry.
Somewhere I have the feeling this question is also along the lines of KDE or GNOME? 
One has many advanced features, the other is just nice and simple and also has the power to do what it should.
I saw another thread where rythembox was recommend over these two… no experience there though.
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:36 +0000, Unseen-Ghost wrote:
> Well, I’ve seen a lot of discussion on Banshee and Amarok in the
> applications area, and I thought it would be cool to ask the question:
> which do you prefer, Banshee or Amarok. Also, does anyone use Amarok on
> Gnome or Banshee on KDE? Just a good discussion on the pros and cons of
> each media player.
>
> So with that, which do you prefer?
>
>
Banshee is a very limited player in comparison to Amarok.
Is there anything banshee can do that Amarok cannot do? I’m
not aware of it.
What I really want is a merge of Kaffeine and Amarok so I
can have just one super player.
Personally, I’ve always liked Amarok over anything. I’ve used both rythembox and Banshee, but nothing compares to Amarok. Amarok is like an all-in-one music center, whereas the others are more basic. I also used a program called Songbird, which is still in pre-beta I believe, but looks really promising. If songbird continues as it has, that will be better than even Amarok in my opinion.
If I didn’t like things super simple, I would use Amarok. It has a lot of features that I can see someone used to iTunes/etc. would like; and I think it looks nice with the QT toolkit.
I, however, use xmms (forgive me) or qmmp.
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Amarok nuff said.
Never found anything better than Amarok yet. However, that is just my
personal opinion. Linux is sometimes described as a lifestyle and IMHO, so
it is. So use the player that gives you the best feel.
Is this the new Holy War? Or is it just a subset of the gnome vs kde one? 
Personally, I use Amarok everywhere. (Though I’ll admit that I’m mostly a kde guy) I use it because I like the interface.
iTunes.
Well someone had to say. Oh all right, I’ll go back to my cave. gnaws on bones
I’ve never used Banshee so I can’t compare which one is better, Amarok or Banshee. I’m using Amarok since the day it came out and so far I find it an excellent program. I don’t think I’ll ever try out Banshee.
Unseen-Ghost wrote:
> Well, I’ve seen a lot of discussion on Banshee and Amarok in the
> applications area, and I thought it would be cool to ask the question:
> which do you prefer, Banshee or Amarok. Also, does anyone use Amarok on
> Gnome or Banshee on KDE? Just a good discussion on the pros and cons of
> each media player.
>
> So with that, which do you prefer?
>
>
I actually like Listen.
Amarok Rocks !! 
I mostly use Amarok, but I do wish it had a daap streaming capability (for Roku Soundbridge).
I prefer Amarok. I think it has much better features, and a nicer overall look.
I used Amarok on Gnome when I was using Ubuntu.
In KDE, Amarok is certainly the best choice. However in GNOME, it can require extra libraries, so increases its footprint. For me, Rhythmbox is a good player for GNOME since it does everything I need. If someone is concerned about Mono infection, Banshee would not be a good choice.
I use Amarok
I’ve used Amarok since the beginning of my linux experience after bailing out of windows. For music is seems to be very reliable, but I’ve never tried it for video, for that I personally like Xine and vlc.
I prefer Amarok on KDE 3.9.
