Where are the KDE music players?

[xeriouxi]

As most of you will know, Amarok 2 was released earlier this month and there have been some mixed reviews about it. I'm personally not a huge fan of the new interface and it got me thinking about what possible alternatives there are when using KDE...

If I wanted to change my default music player in Gnome to something other than Rhythmbox then I could choose from applications such as Exaile, Songbird, Banshee, etc. but if I wanted to do the same in KDE then there's not really any choice but to use the default Amarok. I know I can use the Gnome (or, to be more precise, GTK) applications in KDE, but the use of Qt-based applications do have their advantages in terms of integration and only needing one set of libraries to be loaded, etc.

I personally think it would be good to have some competition in the KDE music player market... what do you think? =D

[Bachstelze]

I personally think it would be good to have some competition in the KDE music player market... what do you think? =D

That you're free to make your own.

[Kingsley]

Amarok was so awesome for the past couple of years. I never thought about there being other native KDE music players.

[billgoldberg]

I seem to remember an audio player with "dragon" in it's name.

Check synaptic for qt audio players.

Songbird isn't a gtk app.

[sujoy]

just get mpd with ncmpcpp or a qt frontend :)

[Half-Left]

Amarok does the job so well you dont need a load of other players that duplicate each other. Yes you have Dragon player (more a media player) and you have JuK and now VLC.

[xeriouxi]

That you're free to make your own.

Not everyone is a programmer, though. I wasn't complaining about the lack of options, per se, I was just trying to see what the community thought about the subject.


Amarok does the job so well you dont need a load of other players that duplicate each other. Yes you have Dragon player (more a media player) and you have JuK and now VLC.

Amarok does indeed to a good job, but I know some people don't like the new interface and so they might be looking for alternative music players.

[chucky chuckaluck]

does amarok have a streamripper plugin yet?

[p_quarles]

does amarok have a streamripper plugin yet?

Has for a while:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/amaroK-Scripts/StreamRecorder-38013.shtml

Juk is another relatively simple KDE4-based music player. Juk was also available for KDE3, as was Noatun.

[xeriouxi]

Juk is another relatively simple KDE4-based music player.

I just took a look at the screenshots for this and it looks interesting... thanks for the push in the right direction, p_quarles!

[karellen]

That you're free to make your own.

very helpful. especially considering it comes from a member of Ubuntu's forum staff

[chucky chuckaluck]

Has for a while:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/amaroK-Scripts/StreamRecorder-38013.shtml

thanks.

[happysmileman]

I seem to remember an audio player with "dragon" in it's name.[/I]

Dragon Player is my video player, I'm sure it can be used for audio too, but it's designed to be very simple player, and mainly for just one-off playing of files, doesn't support playlists or anything.

[jrusso2]

I always thought Kaffeine was part of KDE 3.

[bailout]

I always thought Kaffeine was part of KDE 3.

It is, hasn't been ported to kde 4 yet though.

[Corfy]

I don't think this is a KDE app per se, but you may want to check out Songbird (http://www.getsongbird.com). Unfortunately, it isn't in the repositories yet (or wasn't a few weeks ago, anyway... I assume it still isn't there). I have played around a little bit with it on my Windows machine and I like what I have seen so far.

[xeriouxi]

I don't think this is a KDE app per se, but you may want to check out Songbird (http://www.getsongbird.com).

Songbird, I believe, is built on the XUL engine that Firefox uses, and whilst that isn't technically a GTK-based app, it does require the GTK libraries AFAIK.

I'd just like to reiterate again that the original point of this thread was not to complain or have a rant or anything... I was just wondering if there was a reason why there are a lack of alternate music players that are Qt-based compared to the range that are GTK-based... =)