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15 Linux Music Players – Download your Favorite

October 19, 2008
Linux, Softwares
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There are a lot of great music players out there for Windows and Mac operating systems but so does Linux. Some of these players support almost anything, some don’t. Some are heavy on the system, some aren’t. I’ve compiled a list of most used Linux based music/media/audio players. The list is not in a particular order, whatever you think is your favorite, mention it in the comments :)..

1- Rhythmbox

Linux Music player

Rythmbox is a great music management application for Linux which gives you access to a lot of nice features. Including

Easy to use music browser
Searching and sorting
Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
Playlists
Display audio visualizations
Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
Automatically download audio podcasts
Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo

Download RythmBox

2- SongBird

songbird

Songbird is one of the best music application for Linux. It supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

Download SongBird

3- Listen Project

Listen project is a another nice music player for Linux which is written in Python (language). You can easily organize your music collections with ogg, flac, mpc, mp3, mp4, m4a supported. Feature of browsing different web service like:

Shoucast Webradio
Podcast
Lyrics (througth many plugins like lyriki, leolyrics,… )
Wikipedia informations about artists or albums

and with 4 different interface modes, it’s a must have.

Download Listen-Project

4- Gnome Music Player

Gnome Music Player Client also known as GMPC is fast and easy to use. The best thing about this software is that it’s optimized to run on low end machines and over slow networks while supporting and giving you access to a lot of great features like:

File Browser
Browser based on ID3 information
Search
Current playlist viewer with search
ID3 Information
Metadata support, it can show artist image, album art, lyrics, etc
Profile support
Support for loading/saving playlists
Lots of Plugin support

Download Gnome Music Player

5- Bmpx

Bmpx

BMPx is a simple to use media player for linux. You can watch the latest CNN news or listen to the BBC NewsPod. Last.fm works great with it, and almost all the files that a media player supports are supported. BMPx uses GStreamer (which is a multimedia framework used to drive BMP’s audio backend) as the playback back end and thus can play whatever GStreamer can play on your system.

Download Bmpx

6- Sonata

Sonata

Sonata is another great GTK+ Music player for MPD (Music player daemon). It’s a free software with a elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection. It has a s tabbed interface which includes your current playlist, your library (browse by filesystem, artists, or albums), your saved playlists, and any streams (pls/m3u is supported). You can perform most of your actions through right-click popup menus. Features Include: