why do all linux music players suck?

[lykwydchykyn]

Audacious, a Winamp skin and Arch Linux with IceWM. Any questions?

Yeah. What's putting icons on the desktop, and what happens when you click 'My Computer'?

[Uncle Spellbinder]

I'll just say that I disagree with the title of the thread as a whole. "All Linux music players suck". What in incredible blanket statement based on one person's opinion.

Until recently, I've used 2 excellent music players. Exaile and Listen. Both are fantastic players, in my opinion. I've since moved on to Guayadeque Music Player. Another fine player in the testing stages that shows great promise. I've been using it as my primary player for several weeks and submitting bug reports and suggestions in the test thread.

There are some players in Linux that I just do not care for, but to say they all suck is just plain ludicrous.

[RiceMonster]

I used to like Amarok, and Exaile but the removal of the equalizer in both was enough to put me off both.

Amarok has an Equalizer again, but you'll need the newest version of phonon for it to work (it's included with KDE 4.4 and Qt 4.6).

[BbUiDgZ]

whats wrong with VLC?

[estyles]

If I have one principal that I live by it is: Never trust the opinion of anyone that thinks iTunes is a good music player. Bloatiest, most worthless piece of software I've ever seen.

I like several Linux music players personally. Amarok, Exaille, even Rythmbox isn't bad. Unfortunately, for all the good things about them, I still haven't found one with all the features I want. Specifically: replay gain, equalizer (which can save equalizer settings for specific songs), and the ability to tag songs with the rating I put in. Seriously, having to re-rate everything if I switch to a new player, or rename my songs to .oga instead of .ogg (or vice-versa - I forget, but my Droid only recognizes one of the two extensions), or otherwise lose the database is bananas. Still, even though I think iTunes has those features, it lacks so much more...

[Swarms]

As stated before, Banshee does have an equalizer and is probably the music player of all mentioned in this thread, that has the most rapid development speed. 1.6 RC will be out this Wednesday.

[K.Mandla]

Yeah. What's putting icons on the desktop, and what happens when you click 'My Computer'?

iDesk runs the desktop icons. Opening "My Computer" goes to the root directory with Xfe, and opening "My Documents" opens the home directory in Xfe.

[2hot6ft2]

If you don't like any of the linux music players. Create a better one. Or help to improve the ones that are available. It's open source so what's stopping you? Buy a windows one and run it in wine.

[dragos240]

I disagree.

[Post Monkeh]

If you don't like any of the linux music players. Create a better one. Or help to improve the ones that are available. It's open source so what's stopping you? Buy a windows one and run it in wine.

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