suggest me a lightweight (not xmms) full featured music player

[chris4585]

Well the title says it all.. i like xmms and all but it doesnt have all of the features i want such as well.. this is what i want specificly

Good fast search capability
randomized playing
works like winamp i suppose i miss winamp...
if it runs in a terminal thats fine

only thing about xmms i dont like is that it doesnt search through files and generate a tmp playlist of the files you searched, i guess thats what i mean, and that it doesnt keep all your local media like a library, lets say you put 10,000 files in xmms, and i have it for my default music player, i click on a .mp3 in nautilus then all the files i added go away, or something similar to that

any suggestions? Thank you

[DefianceX]

Beep Media Player. That's the lightest player I've tried out while using Ubuntu.

[santiagoward2000]

Well the title says it all.. i like xmms and all but it doesnt have all of the features i want such as well.. this is what i want specificly

Good fast search capability
randomized playing
works like winamp i suppose i miss winamp...
if it runs in a terminal thats fine

only thing about xmms i dont like is that it doesnt search through files and generate a tmp playlist of the files you searched, i guess thats what i mean, and that it doesnt keep all your local media like a library, lets say you put 10,000 files in xmms, and i have it for my default music player, i click on a .mp3 in nautilus then all the files i added go away, or something similar to that

any suggestions? Thank you

Hi!
My personal favorite: MOC (music on console). It's a really nice terminal-run player. It has Shuffle, Search and is really fast. You just need to get used to some of the keyboard shortcuts, but I love it!

[chris4585]

whats the command for moc?

[chris4585]

And thanks i like beep player, its looks like ubuntu ver of xmms but different options on preferences i like! not much to change in preferences though, not sure if its me, but beep player seems to be playing alot of music i like out of 18,000 ish files i dont exactly love all of them, and banshee is getting blah and really slow, not as slow as amarok though

[vanadium]

mpd, music player daemon. It is extremely light and is the single solution for gapless playback of lame encoded mp3s I know of. Moreover, it supports replay gain (play back the audio with the same perceived volume).

You can have random playback with a crossfade between the tracks, great for hours of background music.

You have various choices for using it. You can control it using mpc from the command line, or you can use one of the various graphical clients.

Sonata is my favourite. It features album artwork, fetching of lyrics, playlist creation and management, and there is a tab to put your radio stations. Right-clicking a folder in the library loads all underlying music in the playlist (like we had in foobar on windows). Thus, if you want Sonata to surprise you with different tracks of say, Pink Floyd, then activate Shuffle, crossfade and right-click the Pink Floyd folder. Your familiar tracks will now come up in a surprising order with smooth transitions.

Both mpd and sonata are in the repos. However, for Sonata, I recommend the latest version available via getdeb.net. mpd requires some configuring, which makes setup not very easy. However, once installed, the combination of mpd and a graphical client constitute a lightweigh, full-featured music setup.

[OffHand]

I use Audacious - it's the best winamp replacement around imo.

[cb951303]

+1 for mpd+sonata
I tried almost evry music player (Audacious, xmms, xmms2, bmp, banshee, rhtymbox, amarok and bunch of other stuff) but sonata wins in minimalism, lightweightness ans search capabilites

[atomkarinca]

I suggest Exaile. It's in the repos.

[K.Mandla]

I use Audacious - it's the best winamp replacement around imo.
+1

[koleoptero]

I use exaile too, but it's not lighweight, it uses a lot of ram. Try Quod libet, it's a bit hard to get used to, but it's lightweight enough and has a library.

[notwen]

Audacious is top notch. I even have the option to use my classic winamp skins. =]

[santiagoward2000]

whats the command for moc?

It's
mocp
I hope you like it!

[Bungo Pony]

One thing I don't like about Audacious is if you're reading from a CD, you have to wait until it scans the entire disc before you can play anything from it. It's really bad if you've got a DVD full of MP3s. XMMS will let you play MP3s while it's scanning the files.

[logos34]

another vote for audacious

[Lostincyberspace]

I used to use Zinf it is allot like winamp which I miss too. I know use amarok just since it is the best out there right now.

[jseiser]

Cplay or mpd/ncmpc by far are the best.

[zipperback]

I like Rhythmbox and Audacious depending on my mood at the time.


- zipperback
:popcorn:

[SomeGuyDude]

Isn't Audacious just a branchoff of XMMS?

[chris4585]

thanks for all of the responses i'll try most of these probably

[jeffus_il]

I was recently introduced to Quod Libet and love it.
It is light weight and full featured.

[chris4585]

It's
mocp
I hope you like it!

ty

[santiagoward2000]

ty

You're welcome! :)

[D-EJ915]

Isn't Audacious just a branchoff of XMMS?
Kind of, it is basically is, but made more "new." I like the way XMMS works with respect to window management better and the playlist is far superior.

[OffHand]

Kind of, it is basically is, but made more "new." I like the way XMMS works with respect to window management better and the playlist is far superior.

It has been rebuild from scratch!

[Hells_Dark]

Mpd, ncmpc, sonata. Of course.
But it need a little more configuration than others.

[koleoptero]

thanks for all of the responses i'll try most of these probably

Come and tell us which one you found best for your needs and why when you're done :)

[clsyorkshire]

I do use rhythmbox but for some reason on my PC it makes the CPU usage spike.

I'm going to try some of the suggested media players from this thread! :D

[jeffus_il]

Try Quod Libet, you may be surprised, the interface is similar to Rhythmbox.

[Nonno Bassotto]

Mpd is the most lightweight, since you can shutdwon the graphical clients, while leaving the music play.

[Sluipvoet]

cmus:
Full featured command line player.
Has an excellent library.
CommandLine and thus very light.
Uses Vi-navigation.

[djbon2112]

I use Audacious - it's the best winamp replacement around imo.

Does anyone know if there's a media player (a la Winamp) plugin for Audacious? Or, is there a stand-alone program which has similar library characteristics, that can then be integrated into Audacious?

[koleoptero]

Does anyone know if there's a media player (a la Winamp) plugin for Audacious? Or, is there a stand-alone program which has similar library characteristics, that can then be integrated into Audacious?

As far as I've seen there isn't. The only music organizer I've seen that can be used with audacious is madman, but it's really not like winamp's library.

If you want a music organizer it would be better to use a program like Rhythmbox, Exaile, Amarok, Banshee, BMPx, etc.


cmus:
Full featured command line player.
Has an excellent library.
CommandLine and thus very light.
Uses Vi-navigation.

Wow, cmus is really good :)

[The Titan]

And thanks i like beep player, its looks like ubuntu ver of xmms but different options on preferences i like! not much to change in preferences though, not sure if its me, but beep player seems to be playing alot of music i like out of 18,000 ish files i dont exactly love all of them, and banshee is getting blah and really slow, not as slow as amarok though

AmaraoK works great for me, it rean extremely slow until i installed a MySQL server and used that instead. It runs great for me now and i have a fairly slow computer. I like better than winamp now.(I missed winamp alot before AmaroK|), takes a lil bit to get used too but i love it.

[chris4585]

I use exaile too, but it's not lighweight, it uses a lot of ram. Try Quod libet, it's a bit hard to get used to, but it's lightweight enough and has a library.

sorry everyone i havent had time to go through the music players till now, so far i like quod libet very much, it does pretty much the only things i want, lightweight enough, although thats not a problem, and the search capabilities, thats all i wanted really to search for files in a library and then let it play the ones i searched file, sure banshee does this but it takes too long, and amarok.. i'm not a fan of, i havent tested all of these players yet, but mpc i couldnt figure out how to add my files to the library, and moc froze trying to load a playlist :/

so far these are the ones i've tried, and quod libet wins so far

[leafhound]

I have this player installed and very much happy

http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/

[inversekinetix]

foobar2000

[kaiju]

i thought foobar2000 was win-only

and chris 4585, mpd is not at all hard to configure once you've googled around a bit, and it'll be woth it. it's basically a daemon that always runs in the background, consuming very little on resources. and you can control it in many different ways: sonata is a lightweight and good-looking client, ncmpc is command-line... or you can even control most of it without any visible client, by assigning keybindings to mpc.
oh, and i can't remember ever having heard mpd sound jerky on my 340 Mhz box ;)

[koleoptero]

sorry everyone i havent had time to go through the music players till now, so far i like quod libet very much, it does pretty much the only things i want, lightweight enough, although thats not a problem, and the search capabilities, thats all i wanted really to search for files in a library and then let it play the ones i searched file, sure banshee does this but it takes too long, and amarok.. i'm not a fan of, i havent tested all of these players yet, but mpc i couldnt figure out how to add my files to the library, and moc froze trying to load a playlist :/

so far these are the ones i've tried, and quod libet wins so far

Well as long as you found one that works for you, you're OK. You don't really have to try them all. :)

[graabein]

I'm also a big fan of Quod Libet. Have you tried the Album List view and plugins for downloading cover art and tags from musicbrainz.org (http://musicbrainz.org/)?



Edit: Can't remember if it was this thread but someone wanted a music player that could browse file system and not rely on tags. Well I just discovered that Quod Libet does this with File System view. You can add some folders and mark them for new files also.

I'm liking it even more every day!

[spaceship.rodeo]

mpd, music player daemon. It is extremely light and is the single solution for gapless playback of lame encoded mp3s I know of. Moreover, it supports replay gain (play back the audio with the same perceived volume).

You can have random playback with a crossfade between the tracks, great for hours of background music.

You have various choices for using it. You can control it using mpc from the command line, or you can use one of the various graphical clients.

Sonata is my favourite. It features album artwork, fetching of lyrics, playlist creation and management, and there is a tab to put your radio stations. Right-clicking a folder in the library loads all underlying music in the playlist (like we had in foobar on windows). Thus, if you want Sonata to surprise you with different tracks of say, Pink Floyd, then activate Shuffle, crossfade and right-click the Pink Floyd folder. Your familiar tracks will now come up in a surprising order with smooth transitions.

Both mpd and sonata are in the repos. However, for Sonata, I recommend the latest version available via getdeb.net. mpd requires some configuring, which makes setup not very easy. However, once installed, the combination of mpd and a graphical client constitute a lightweigh, full-featured music setup.
Sorry for the bump, but I'm trying out Sonata and can't figure out how to access my music? It looks pretty awesome and I'd like to get it to work but I just don't know how.

[andrewabc]

Sorry for the bump, but I'm trying out Sonata and can't figure out how to access my music? It looks pretty awesome and I'd like to get it to work but I just don't know how.

I've tried several times to get that to work over the past 2 months but could never figure it out. I search the internet and there were no solutions, and anyone who asked would not get a decent answer.

[moore.bryan]

+1 audacious

[tigerplug]

I use Audacious - it's the best winamp replacement around imo.


I agree! - I love it!

[aktiwers]

It's
mocpI hope you like it!

Thanks.. Love it!!

[aktiwers]

I've tried several times to get that to work over the past 2 months but could never figure it out. I search the internet and there were no solutions, and anyone who asked would not get a decent answer.

Same problem here.. looks very nice though

[bobdob20]

I think u have to tell mpd where ur music is kept by putting the path in /etc/mpd.conf

e.g


######################## REQUIRED PATHS ########################
# You can put symlinks in here, if you like. Make sure that
# the user that mpd runs as (see the 'user' config parameter)
# can read the files in this directory.
music_directory "~/Music"

[SomeGuyDude]

I've tried several times to get that to work over the past 2 months but could never figure it out. I search the internet and there were no solutions, and anyone who asked would not get a decent answer.

Like the above poster said, you have to say where your music is. Then do this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1702562&postcount=11


# Replace mpd music directory with symlink to your own; I have my music in /home/khaeru/Music
sudo rmdir /var/lib/mpd/music
sudo ln -s ~/Music /var/lib/mpd/music

# Restart and update database
sudo /etc/init.d/mpd restart
mpc update

[Slotos]

i thought foobar2000 was win-only

It is. But wine helps (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=54933). With columns ui and haven't experienced any issues. Tagging, converting, playing music and moving/copying files works ok.

[barbedsaber]

I don't know if its light enough for you, but have a look at aqualung.

[dustigroove]

I've tried several times to get that to work over the past 2 months but could never figure it out. I search the internet and there were no solutions, and anyone who asked would not get a decent answer.

I know this is an old post, just wanted to include a solution just in case another user comes across this looking for a solution to getting mpd up and running.

Best guide that I could find as of 12/2009:
http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/MPD_INSTALL_USER_SERVICE_UBUNTU

Cheers.

[ve4cib]

I'm another fan of Audacious. Not many bells and whistles (that I've discovered), but it does what one would expect of a media player, and is pretty resource-friendly.

MPlayer is another reasonable option depending on your needs. You can control it from the command-like, so you don't even need to have an X server running. Doesn't tend to get a whole lot lighter than that.

[crimesaucer]

MPD + ncmpcpp is my favorite.

ncmpcpp: http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp/

[markp1989]

i use mpd + mpc (and sonata ocaisionaly)

just tie mpc to the media keys on my keyboard, <1% cpu+memory usage when playing music is not to be complained at :D


i have mine tied to the mouse + keyboard.

ctrl+left click = prev
crtl+middle click= play/pause
ctrl+right click= next
ctrl+scrol up/down = volume up/down

[dragos240]

whats the command for moc?

mocp