Good STABLE music player for Gnome

Auraomega

Auraomega

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Hi there,

I'm looking for a good stable music player (as the title says), it needs to have an equaliser, library support, and most of all, the ability to hold nearly 30gb/4500 tracks, I've used most of the ones I could find but they all seem to crash on me... I've heard most are pretty stable for smaller libraries but I figure somewhere theres got to be one which can handle more? Its either that or I code my own but I hate to re-invent the wheel :rolleyes:

-Aura
 
Amarok was the last music player I used, but that was about a year ago so its probably and old version now, I'll try the latest (release) build when I'm on Ubuntu next.

-Aura
 
Auraomega said:
Amarok was the last music player I used, but that was about a year ago so its probably and old version now, I'll try the latest (release) build when I'm on Ubuntu next.

-Aura
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Amarok allows you to use MySQL instead of SQLite, which is supposedly better for larger collections, may be worth trying that.
 
I have lots of love for mplayer... but lets be honest... its library support is rather non-existant and going for a random selection doesn't always work when it goes from Jazz --> metal --> classical --> pounding techno! mplayer for me is for a) videos or b) remote control of music over ssh because I'm too damn lazy!

Amarok 1.4 is my choice as amarok 2 sucks (yes, you need to install kdebase 3 for this, so probably not ideal for a gnome user).
 
I use SMplayer for video. I've never used it to organize a media library I'll have to look at some of the front ends out there in my ongoing search for a linux music player that is as customizable as foobar
 
Mr_Orange said:
I use SMplayer for video. I've never used it to organize a media library I'll have to look at some of the front ends out there in my ongoing search for a linux music player that is as customizable as foobar
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smplayer is just a (very, very nice) front end for mplayer.

Personally, I never liked foobar when I used windows and preferred winamp. have you tried it in wine? linky... dunno might work for you.
 
.walls said:
going for a random selection doesn't always work when it goes from Jazz --> metal --> classical --> pounding techno!
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Never had library issues with mplayer and music, and why don't you sort out your collection better? Orgnaize by directory and just have something like:

Music
|- jazz
|- metal
|- classical
|- pounding_techno

Create a playlist for each. It is far easier and the controls are there, to skip track, volume, ect.
 
I use rythmbox for 70gb of music and also have its DAAP music share plugin (iTunes share) streaming to other computers and it handles it fine.

I used to use Amarok but I found it slow. Song bird just uses an insane amount of memory for a music player. Also used banshee before, it's very similar to Rythmbox but I just prefer Rythmbox as it has a built in iTunes share.
 
rsatd said:
Never had library issues with mplayer and music, and why don't you sort out your collection better? Orgnaize by directory and just have something like:

Music
|- jazz
|- metal
|- classical
|- pounding_techno

Create a playlist for each. It is far easier and the controls are there, to skip track, volume, ect.
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That's a great idea! I'll rearrange my music collection (all 140 GB of it), - including splitting artists that cover a few different genres - in seperate folders all so so that I can use a command driver music player!

Or... I could continue to use mplayer for videos and amarok for music. :rolleyes:
 
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