On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 22:45 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 1/28/06, Sam Drinkard <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sorry for the off topic posting, but I'm not a real music person and know little about what software will do what. Without turning this into a big discussion for pro or con, could someone drop a line or 3 just stating the name(s) of some type music players? I'd probably want something that would play CD's and perhaps mp3's. I don't guess there is a "catch-all" like the windows media player that does it all is there?
> >
> > Thanks..
> >
>
> Sure there is.
>
> xmms will play mp3s, wma, ogg, flac, cds and more. It's very
> simplistic, and a bit like winamp3 on the windows side. (requires
> xmms-mp3s from dag or other external repository)
>
> Rythmbox is okay, but is really basic.
>
> AmaroK is a KDE media player that is fairly heavy (being a KDE app and
> all) but it's quite nice, plays video, mp3, and pretty much every
> other media format. It needs some plugins to operate as well, but has
> all the trimmings.
>
> I prefer xmms, but I like simplicity, and AmaroK is quite nice for what it is.
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xmms plays my aac/m4a (iPod) files - something that I have never been
able to get AmaroK to do. AmaroK is a music file management system - not
just a player.
Craig
