Where’ve all the media players gone?

dp, 14 October 2009, 2 comments
Categories: Software
Tags: MP3, music

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I want a new media player. I want it to:

play MP3s, OGGs, FLACs, etc (glaring at iTunes)
download podcasts
not be ugly as sin (glaring at Amarok2)
be graphical (I’m a commandline junky, but not when it comes to playing music) (glaring at cmus)
be fast, and not randomly lock up (glaring at Amarok1.4)
run on *nix (glaring at iTunes, MediaMonkey, and others)
support smart playlists

MediaMonkey is actually really good as a media player, but it doesn’t run on Linux. I really don’t care if it has built in ripping capabilities; I have 30 other ways to do that. It would be nice if it had scriptability; ala DCOP or others.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for a media player on *nix?

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http://blog.dp.cx dp

I think Banshee may have a good run… it's pretty, and it works well. It also does everything else I want… check it out at http://banshee-project.org/
http://blog.dp.cx dp

I think Banshee may have a good run… it's pretty, and it works well. It also does everything else I want… check it out at http://banshee-project.org/

Where’ve all the media players gone?

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