Originally posted by: alex
hi all, decided to finally start making the move to linux so I installed ubuntu 9.04 (for now, anyways until I feel more comfortable)...
Music Player/Manager - Rhythmbox (silly name and icon but hands down much better than Amarok or Banshee at least in my opinion, I have a fairly large music library and Banshee doesn't work well with genres and Amarok just crashes)
Sorry for being late to the party, but I don't usually post in this forum - kinda like preaching to the choir, you know? I'd rather witness and evangelize in the Windows Forum aka Operating Systems...
Anyway, I'm a distro hopper, if you know what that is - and what I wanted to tell you is...
Don't *feel* bad about running Ubuntu 9.04! I'm an Ubuntu hater from way back - but I love 9.04. I'm running it as my primary OS on my Intel Extreme Edition box - and playing around with other distros in a (Sun VirtualBox) VM.
Why, you may ask??? Because I don't want to take a chance on borking Ubuntu 9.10 - I like it that much!
Anyway, it looks like you have pretty much decided the winners - and for the most part, I concur. However...
Without a doubt,
Exaile is the best "Music Player/Manager" I've run across, in all my distro hopping!
You might want to reconsider your 'winner' in that grouping...
http://www.exaile.org/ (Exaile Music Manager / Player web Site)