Need a Gnome media player with media library.

[SimbaSpirit]

So far I've tried mplayer, audacious, vlc, streamtuner, xmms(didn't fully work),and totem.

I've been spoiled by winamp on windows and I really need a media player that has a developed media library and playlist. Are there any Gnome media players out there that fits that bill?

A lot of people are slamming xmms saying it's old, buggy, and I didn't see a media library when I tried it. VLC has a playlist, but no real media library, streamtuner,mplayer, and audacious didn't have a media library that I saw, and in totem I've only seen a playlist.

Can anyone recommend something that fits the bill?

Summary:
Media player, must have:

Media library
Playlist
Gnome-themed

Thanks,
-SS

[SimbaSpirit]

I've tried to wine winamp and the interface comes up, but the media library doesn't populate in either pane.

[itix]

Exaile and Banshee are my favourites. You can also use songbird which is similar to iTunes...
link to songbird installation: http://www.getdeb.net/app/Songbird
link to exaile installation: http://www.exaile.org/
And Banshee can be found in add/remove software...

[DJ_Peng]

I went through the same thing when I switched from Windows to Linux. I have Exaile, but I find that it takes forever to load in so I could just get at my library. I usually use MPD (http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320469), with Sonata (http://sonata.berlios.de/) as my front end. If I want to pull tracks from a wide variety of artists I use Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/). It may be a KDE app rather than a GNOME app, but before I started using MPD/Sonata it was the bets media player for the way I want to manage my library.

[surj08]

Whats wrong with the one that comes preisntalled? rhythmbox or w/e its called.

or banshee.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-media-players-overview.html

[SimbaSpirit]

link to songbird installation: http://www.getdeb.net/app/Songbird
Just downloaded and installed. I hated iTunes because is was written about as resource-friendly as vista. This one on the other hand works great! Thanks!

[itix]

Yeah... That was my problem with iTunes as well...

[dorkizzle]

Banshee is pretty nice. :)

[Tomatz]

Songbird is by far the best:

http://getsongbird.com/

You can download a .deb from:

www.getdeb.net


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