Comments on: Day 2 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests

By: Will

Will — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:14:16 +0000

@NAME – thanks for the tip about Clementine. I was reminded of how much Linux music players suck when trying to find one that could play m4a podcasts properly. Clementine FTW.

By: name

name — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:40:07 +0000

Ok this entry might be really old but just in case

I was pretty disappointed with the popular music players in Linux, I absolutely hated Amarok, banshee, Rhythmbox, I come from windows and I LOVED my aimp2, it was easy to use, it was light, it worked.

I had been just playing files with Audacious but I discovered Clementine today and thus far I have to say it’s just what I’ve been looking for. I’m going to read about Exaile, but I have to say Clementine is the music player for me. I won’t say I’m impressed by it, but that’s exactly what i need, a music player that doesn’t try to impress me, but one that does its job, which is play me some music.

+1 for Clementine

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:24:24 +0000

Although, it supports all other media formats like DivX, MPEG, MP3, OGG, AAC, AVI, MP3, MP4, WMV and so on, Amarok would not play WAV, FLAC, ASF, WMA, downloaded podcast MP3s, and it would not play audio CD. It supports iPod playback and update and detects iPod upon startup. While Amarok is feature-rich, it is found to be buggy and not reliable enough for everyday use. That's too bad, because if it were less prone to freeze and crash, Amarok would have been in my top three, thanks to its extensive music management capabilities and other features, such as downloading album art and lyrics, and its attractive and themeable user interface.Amarok can be displayed with a WinAmp or iTunes-style interface. click here:"http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/360/best-of-the-lot-my-top-5-media-players-for-ubuntu"

By: Daniyal Arain

Daniyal Arain — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:40:05 +0000

OK this may seem discriminating but I really don’t like Windows Media Player 11 or Itunes that much.
I recently made Ubuntu my main OS and I am in love with the Rhythmbox – I mean who doesn’t likes controlling your music from anywhere – It is integrated with the volume bar. Such a relief for me.
I am really loving it.
I have read your previous Day too.
And I agree with those small things.
But really It didn’t bothered me that much – though they need to be fixed.
Your website is cool :).

By: Anti Elitist

Anti Elitist — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:49:15 +0000

Rhythmbox isn’t too bad for what it is. However, it does have it’s issues. As far as media players go, I can’t stand Itunes. Windows media player is ok once you get beyond the look and feel. Still the most customizable media player on the planet is winamp by a long shot. So when I want music, I prop open my laptop running Windows 7 and use Winamp. I wont touch Itunes, or Windows Media Player. Windows 7 seems decades ahead of Ubuntu so I only use Ubuntu on a desktop pc as a toy to play around with. Afterall, that is what Ubuntu 10.10 feels like, a toy OS. Beyond desktop configuration,and surfing the internet, what else can you really do with it? over half of the apps available don’t even work, or are extremely buggy, or are overly resource intensive causing system instability. Sure, you can play games via Wine, you can watch dvds assuming your intuitive enough to find the codec, and then there is the warning how some countries consider it copyright infringement to even download the codec(ridiculous). Don’t get me wrong though, for a free OS, there is none better in my opinion than Ubuntu. But it has a long way to go still before it can compete with the big boys on the block, Windows 7, and OSX respectively.

By: congpeiwen

congpeiwen — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:14:31 +0000

I used Rhythmbox for several years.But i still feel it a urgly player. I install the plugins for ape files. But still there are many ape it can not play.(for several apes it can play)
I’m now trying guayadeque

By: MikeR

MikeR — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:50:24 +0000

I have never complained before about software being bloated. Songbird is bloated and slow.

By: ConceptJunkie

ConceptJunkie — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:29:48 +0000

I use Audacious. I want something that works like WinAmp without all the stupid features that have been stapled on in the last 5 years… but I’m far from the average user.

My music collection is already meticulously organized and tagged using MP3Tag (on Windows… there are plenty of taggers for Linux, but I can’t be bothered to figure out which one works like MP3Tag, which I think is as close to perfect as that kind of utility can get (it works pretty well in Wine, too).

I want a simple, small player that doesn’t try to do things for me. I’m not opposed to more features, but only if they are unobtrusive. I used to like Amarok, but since version 2 started shipping it’s gone from full-featured but clean to a confusing and ugly UI (at least IMO).

The problem is that too many players try to be like iTunes, which I found to be overbearing to use. It wants to hold your hand, and I don’t need or want my hand held. I realize I’m not its audience, but a program designed for the non-technical doesn’t need to be a pain for expert users either.

I want something simple that sits in the corner and does its job. When I want to listen to an album, I drag-and-drop the appropriate folder onto it. It doesn’t try to organize my music. It doesn’t try to sell me things. It doesn’t want to do things it can’t do well (like WinAmp and videos). It doesn’t ask me to rate my own music. It just plays, and everything it does is geared towards… playing music.

Having a good, full-featured, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink player is probably needed because of things like iTunes, but it goes against the grain of the general Unix philosophy of apps that do one thing, but do it well. Most of these super apps try to be all things to all people, but in my experience they tend to do everything sort-of-good and nothing great, along with all the other disadvantages of overly complex software.

By: kikl

kikl — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:58:14 +0000

I like rhythmbox. I don’t understand the harsh criticism. The only lacking feature so far is i-pop, pad, -phone,… support. As soon as this is fixed, I can see no reason for dumping rhythmbox. The user interface is simple and pretty. They should stick to rhythmbox and improve it.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:09:42 +0000

The landscape just clouded over. Songbird is abandoning Linux. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/songbird-halts-major-support-for-linux.html