Full Version: Media player of choice
What's good? Foobar, Audacious, Beep?
I recently switched my home laptop over to Ubuntu Linux (really excited for Ubuntu Studio) so I had to find an alternative for iTunes. Most didn't quite fulfill my needs, but I've been fairly with the cross-platform open-source media player, Songbird. It's still in development, but they have a preview download that I'm currently using as my primary music player. It's pretty fucking buggy right now, but most of the time it works just fine.
It's based on Firefox, so first of all, you know it's going to have a big community of nerds supporting it. That also means it's easily extendable, which will result in a wealth of plugins (there's already several available including iPod sync, Last.FM, mp3 directory organizing, etc). There's a Firefox browser within the software and when you visit a page with any links to mp3s, they show up in a list on the bottom of the window, both playable and downloadable.
Though it has a ways to go, this promises to be a big deal later this year and is already very usable. Could be the next big media player.
It's based on Firefox, so first of all, you know it's going to have a big community of nerds supporting it. That also means it's easily extendable, which will result in a wealth of plugins (there's already several available including iPod sync, Last.FM, mp3 directory organizing, etc). There's a Firefox browser within the software and when you visit a page with any links to mp3s, they show up in a list on the bottom of the window, both playable and downloadable.
Though it has a ways to go, this promises to be a big deal later this year and is already very usable. Could be the next big media player.
Yeah, Firefox supported and last.fm (or alternatives, please list) plug-in necessary.
Awesome.
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There's a Firefox browser within the software and when you visit a page with any links to mp3s, they show up in a list on the bottom of the window, both playable and downloadable.
Awesome.
Songbird here.
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Songbird here.
http://www.songbirdnest.com/
Looks like it has it all. Does anyone have any objections to this one?
I use musikCube now, but me loves integration. Dloading songbird now....
edit: cool idea, but buggy as hell. definitely going to keep my eye on it though
edit: cool idea, but buggy as hell. definitely going to keep my eye on it though
Foobar2000 + customized config from Hydrogen Audio
Foobar + custom config for me too. It looks like this:
so i just d/loaded foobar, what's so great about it? it's nice and basic, but what's the appeal here?
Foobar + custom config for me too. It looks like this:
how do you make it look like that?!
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Foobar + custom config for me too. It looks like this:
how do you make it look like that?!
QUOTE(dano @ Feb 1 2007, 09:00 AM) [snapback]302976[/snapback]
Foobar + custom config for me too. It looks like this:
Beautiful.
Alan, babe, lemme see what you did with it.
God, I fucking hate iTunes.
I'm in the process of switching over completely to Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl (3d desktop), so I'll be trying Songbird.
I'm in the process of switching over completely to Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl (3d desktop), so I'll be trying Songbird.
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