Best Music Player/Manager for Gtk?

I'm using Exaile in Xfce right now and like it. What are other's preferences for Music Manager/Players? I know I can install Amarok. thanks

 

I say Banshee is the best by far. Amazing features like Amarok but great simplicity like Rhythmbox.

 

I forgot about Banshee....been in KDE too long with Amarok.

 

KDE rots the mind.

 

Amarok 1.4 to me is the best ever. 2.0 is just plain unusable though. And i dont want kde3 libs leeching my system to keep the old amarok.

Though, I'm on gtk now, and I'm also running Exaile. It is a bit counter intuitive to me at some times, though it's the best from the ones i tried on gtk...

I'm going to try this Banshee though, didn't try it yet.

 

Music Player Daemon + Sonata = win

 

^ +1

It's not really a 'Manager', but it's light, simple, effective, and Sonata is very beautiful

 

I'm going to check that out....neeeever heard of it

 

Tried it.

Looks ok, but i still keep Exaile on gtk...

I had tried that before. Couldn't set it up aswell as any other mpd based player (well ok, didn't spent much time trying, just moved out looking for something that would have a more friendly face)
And at first glance i didn't find any sort of playlist management options...

 

I'm down to installing music player in my Xfce environment....going to check out Sonata as I've never laid eyes on it

That set up is more networking sound, which I might do so I'm leaving it on....it's between exaile and banshee now.....

 

It is for networking, but as a private user music player, it's very good as well. Very customisable.

Among Exaile and Banshee I usually go for Exaile.

 

for sonata.....I can't seem to get it to scan my /music folder in vista....wonder what I'm doing wrong?

 

Sonata works in Vista?

 

oh, I meant that's the partition where I keep all the music.....so I don't have everything in two places.....probably should be moved to linux....right now I'm playing around with Songbird...seems OK, haven't tried to sync an iPod yet.

 

Songbird never worked for me, it's the reason I use Banshee.

 

Songbird, even in its 1.1 in Windows, was quite slow. It took a long time to play the first song after I booted up. I'm back to Winamp, even though it's rather cluttered. I'd use WMP if not for it's privacy usage retrival policies

Zoid, can you show us you mpd.conf file?

 

I have a .mpd directory in /home, but nothing in it but a blank 'playlists' directory....should I have something somewhere else? I've obviously not got it set up right...would like to try it. thanks

 

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd#Configure_mpd

Just follow the instructions. And just copy until the "These are the most common lines" part. The rest is only if your computer needs other tweaks. And point it to your Music folder directory, wherever it is

I actually recommend you install mpd-git instead. It's much better and has a patch that fixed music stuttering when you log out. Install the sonata svn/git version as well.

 

I like audacious; simple and basic like xmms

 

Thanks...I'll check it out....I'm not seeing Slackbuilds for the -git versions.....I'll see

EDIT: I have to start a daemon everytime to run this? is it worth it?

 

It's very light and it starts the music playing even when you're not in X. It continues the music from where it left off last time, and it'll keep playing even if you hit CTRL ALT BACKSPACE

Give it a try. Only you can say if it's worth it

"Maybe it's Maybelline"

 

I'll check it....thanks....using Songbird now as Exaile is in the SlackBuilds pending que. Seems to be working pretty great, but haven't figured out how to run it in the sys tray....?

Extension to close to tray....

 

zephyrus17, do you know if MPD will play m4a files? (apple itunes)

 

I think it can. Unless it's DRMed.

Running "mpd -version" will tell you what stuff it can play

 

Well, Goggles Music Manager will play all my m4a's, but it sounds like crap...Songbird sounds fantabulous but won't play any m4a's. Damned Apple There used to be a debian converter, something like jhymn, but it was taken off the site I was told due to threats of legal action. All I know is everything I've got I paid for, and I want to play it with whatever I want to

 

That's pretty cool...I'm going to make it work....thanks

MPD with Sonata is pretty great...however, it's not recognizing as music files any of my m4a's....anything I can do about this other than ripping them all to CD?

 

Rhythmbox + Banshee

 

Will both of those play m4a files? there's a slackbuild of banshee...I'll check it, BUT, mpd mit Sonata is nice, very nice!

 

glad you like it

 

So, is this mpd+Sonata really worth the time setting it up?

For me, the casual music listener who just want to set up a couple playlists and/or listen to some radio streams like sky.fm?
To me it doesn't need to have any eye candy stuff, just to be discrete, have an equalizer, have easy playlist/music changing, shuffle/repeat... these stuff.

 

I really like it now that I'm used to it...it's pretty cool....here is a screenie of Sonata...it can minimized to the sys tray....ah, music playing? My wife is from Honduras

 

Sonata looks best in Openbox, I feel. But is a lot better than the other mpd clients

 

I'll put it in Crunchbang and see....wonder why?

 

I think the style of openbox just suits it's simplicity more, I guess.

 

Sonata is pretty cool...boy, for pure functionality on a desktop though, I'm still liking Exaile a lot.

 

Exaile goes with Avant-Windows-Navigator, by the way. There's a special app just for it

 

yep, I saw the plugin for it....maybe I'll set up a dock again and see

 

re m4a files....I separated them into a separate folder in windows, then used dbPowerAmp Music Converter and batch converted them in windows to my user/Music folder ...no more m4a problems in linux.

 

I've never really had m4a problems because I try my best to not rip my cds into m4a. I'd love to rip all of them in wav, but space constraints mean I need to compromise and do a 192kbps vbr mp3

 

yeah, I had tons in that format on my iPod Video, which I use mostly in my car which is prewired for it, or plug the iPod into my home theatre...but, lately I've been rattling windows while working in linux but that program I mentioned above worked pretty good....it's at filehippo.

 

Sounds nice. I'll have a look at it. does it only do m4a?