Music Monkey Alternative

**Dasien** · September 1st, 2009

Hello all,
I thought I would pass on the information I found a very interesting media player and I am trying it out and it reminds me of Music Monkey which was the only program I hated to leave behind when I switched from Windows. The program I recommend is ATunes http://www.atunes.org/
Thanks
Nick

**vinutux** · September 1st, 2009

Ok....but it built on java.....and looking crappyyyyyyyyyyy.....

Songbird is worthfull alternative.....check it http://getsongbird.com/

**oboedad55** · September 1st, 2009

Originally Posted by vinutux

Ok....but it built on java.....and looking crappyyyyyyyyyyy.....

Songbird is worthfull alternative.....check it http://getsongbird.com/

Songbird is pretty decent. aTunes has a horrid interface, really unusable. Thanks for the reference anyway.

**Donalb** · November 5th, 2009

I hate or just dislike ALL the ones I've tried (Amarok, Songbird, Rhythmbox, gmusicplayer, Listen, others I've forgotten).
Songbird prob. looks the best but caused the most egregious problems (lost data, the ultimate crime)

(I do use Audacious for quickly playing 1 or 2 tracks, as a basic Winamp alternative.)

So I still use the Monkey in Wine. There's a good setup page over on MM's forums. I was able to follow it without knowing what I was doing.

MM ran fine in Intrepid, but the screen refresh was problem.
Installed Karmic 2 days ago, and MM is much faster and didn't have to do any changes.

I have the full miniplayer applet control also, with next song updates in the new Notify panel. Cool.

Go Monkey.

**Uncle Spellbinder** · November 5th, 2009

Originally Posted by Donalb

I hate or just dislike ALL the ones I've tried (Amarok, Songbird, Rhythmbox, gmusicplayer, Listen, others I've forgotten).....

Give Exaile a try if you haven't. I love it and have not had any issues in Karmic. Fast on scanning your collection, too. I have 139,000 .mp3 files separated by artist/album/genre on 2 different external drives. Exaile took about 20 minutes to scan and where Amarok and Rhythmbox each took more than 11 hours.

**vinutux** · November 6th, 2009

Originally Posted by Uncle Spellbinder

Give Exaile a try if you haven't. I love it and have not had any issues in Karmic. Fast on scanning your collection, too. I have 139,000 .mp3 files separated by artist/album/genre on 2 different external drives. Exaile took about 20 minutes to scan and where Amarok and Rhythmbox each took more than 11 hours.

+1 exaile is gr8 in karmic

**Donalb** · November 6th, 2009

Exaile is one of the ones I tried & forgot.It was just "blah", nothing memorable.
I can't understand why Rhythmbox is standard in Karmic, since it's now a dead app. But then this an area where Linux lags, like a robust Backup app also.
(No I didn't ever use or mean iTunes, which I also hated).

Time scanning my collection is not a problem.
After 10 years digital music, I keep my collection to less than 30 gig. (Enough to fit it all on an Iomega Rev 35g Backup Cartridge)
If I get above that, I have a look and delete, because there'll be something I find I never listen to.
In the end there's about 1000 tracks I listen to all the time.
I can't conceive of having 100k tracks. My brain is obviously too small.

Banshee is alright. Fast enough to scan my medium collection, easy to put a quick playlist together. But I still prefer MM in Wine.