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I've been on a search for the perfect music player, and surprisingly Linux has some crappy choices. It seems like most of the players /almost/ get it right, but not quite. My favorite player on Windows is Foobar2000, and while it sort of works in Wine, it hammers the cpu, and is kind of glitchy.
I've recently discovered DeadBeef(WTF name?!) player, and it's looking like it aspires to be a Foobar2000 clone. I like it, but it's like stepping back several years in Foobar2000 development :^D Check it out here. You can run it as a portable app in Linux...
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/download.html
I'm digging it, but if development stops, I'll be back to square 1. My short list of acceptable players so far is Banshee, and Clementine. Both are kind of bloated, and I'm not sure if Clementine will sort music the way I like. It's ESSENTIAL for me to be able to sort by folder. That's how I keep my music organized, and it makes it easy for me to manually search through a playlist. I don't care much about "extra" features. I manually drag/drop to my mp3 players, and web content doesn't matter much to me. I do like freedb tagging, and that's the main reason I'm keeping Wine/Foobar2000. I haven't found a Linux player that supports that yet, but maybe I've overlooked it.
Anyway, what do you guys use? I'm hoping I'll find a sweet player I've never heard of. I recently found DeadBeef in some blog comments at OmgUbuntu(good site to find Ubuntu apps/tips/tweaks http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk ).
I've recently discovered DeadBeef(WTF name?!) player, and it's looking like it aspires to be a Foobar2000 clone. I like it, but it's like stepping back several years in Foobar2000 development :^D Check it out here. You can run it as a portable app in Linux...
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/download.html
I'm digging it, but if development stops, I'll be back to square 1. My short list of acceptable players so far is Banshee, and Clementine. Both are kind of bloated, and I'm not sure if Clementine will sort music the way I like. It's ESSENTIAL for me to be able to sort by folder. That's how I keep my music organized, and it makes it easy for me to manually search through a playlist. I don't care much about "extra" features. I manually drag/drop to my mp3 players, and web content doesn't matter much to me. I do like freedb tagging, and that's the main reason I'm keeping Wine/Foobar2000. I haven't found a Linux player that supports that yet, but maybe I've overlooked it.
Anyway, what do you guys use? I'm hoping I'll find a sweet player I've never heard of. I recently found DeadBeef in some blog comments at OmgUbuntu(good site to find Ubuntu apps/tips/tweaks http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk ).