What is the best music player software?

[Snyper450]

NOO!!! Stay with Rhythmbox why fix a not broken thing xD

[slakkie]

It is not really what you are looking for but I use mplayer and some shell functions to create playlists from my music folder:

make_playlist () {
        find -L $HOME/slakkie/home/music -iname \*.mp3 -o -iname \*.ogg -o -iname \*.flac | sort > $HOME/media/playlist
}

play_music () {
        local OPTIONS
        [ -n "$1" ] && OPTIONS="-shuffle "
        eval mplayer $OPTIONS -loop 0 -playlist $HOME/media/playlist
}

play_artists () {
        local playlist=$HOME/media/playlist.artist
        : > $playlist
        for i in "$@"
        do
                if [ -n $artists ]
                then
                        grep -i $i $HOME/media/playlist >> $playlist
                fi
        done
        if [ $(stat -c %s "$playlist") -ne "0" ]
        then
                eval mplayer $OPTIONS -loop 0 -playlist $playlist
        fi
}

It doesn't organise the music, but since I rip my own CD's with abcde I don't feel the need to organize my music even more.

For me this is the best music player a man can have, I usually use screen where I start mplayer, then detach it, and just listen to the tunes. If I logout from my PC the music keeps playing, so any unfortunate crash of X, or other accident, I can at least listen to music while fixing the issue

[tv0571]

NotevilJoe, Quod Libet has a plugin that downloads cover.jpg 's so that you can see the cover art for your album in the album list. Works pretty well.

[noteviljoe]

NotevilJoe, Quod Libet has a plugin that downloads cover.jpg 's so that you can see the cover art for your album in the album list. Works pretty well.

I've got most of the album art I need -- what I want is to be able to browse my albums via it. I honesty can't understand why this isn't more of a priority for people ???

Just given Quod Libet a try, its nice but it isn't quite the view I'm looking for. The text takes up more room then the little pic's of the album covers. I crave the reverse.

In media monkey you can see all the alumbs up in a grid and its loverly. (see )
In Song bird you can get a loverly line of large album covers that flow.

[ptipton]

Songbird has fine features but is way too slow. I'm currently using Banshee, but I totally miss foobar2k.

I'm looking for something that handles well compilations. Almost every player I tried shows only artist, so after adding compilation album (like soundtrack) to the library it creates many artist which has only one track. Is there any player that would read the Album artist tag (eg. Various artists) and then showed it as a Various amongst other artists with regular albums?

Did you come up with anything that works ok with various artists? I play my music through XBMC so am looking for a program to rip disks to flac, tag properly including the albumartist field and cover art and is good at making playslist. Wouldnt have thought this was too much to ask but just tried Amarok, Exhaile, Banshee and rythmbox and non of them can do this easily and they seem to handle various artists as different albums as you mention. Best i can get so far is to rip with soundjuicer and tag with either Kid3 or remotely from a windows machine with Foobar- oh for Fobar for linux!

[brett-]

I used Amarok up until the 2- "upgrade", the equalizer was removed and that is a bad thing: Switched to Exaile, excellent interface (like Amarok), has equalizer with pre and user def presets and best tag editor I have seen. Album art fetcher falls short though: Integrated "streamripper" works fine, can review stations with id tags: I use it to control 480 watt Marshall Leach amp (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...leach&page=174)