Audio Playback
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An audio player allows you to play sound files of many types with a straightforward and streamlined interface.
Unlike an audio player, a music player is focused on music, and very frequently on helping you manage your music collection. Music players can incorporate many other useful features, such as connecting to online databases of lyrics and album data and managing your portable music player. One might think that by all accounts a music player is superior to an audio player, but sometimes you just want to play a sound file quickly and hassle-free.
On Linux, the line between the simple audio player and the music player is often blurred, and sometimes ignored altogether. This helps the end user by allowing them to find software that perfectly matches their needs and taste. Conversely, sometimes the middle ground is confusing to a new user and not sophisticated enough for a power user. Thus, in the following list, no distinction is made between the two.
[edit] List of Audio Players
- Amarok Amarok
- Audacious Audacious
- Banshee Banshee
- Beep Media Player BMPx (Beep Media Player)
- Eina Eina
- Exaile Exaile
- FUPlayer FUPlayer
- Gamp Gamp
- Gnome Media Player gmpc (GNOME Music Player Client, client for the network audio server mpd)
- gmusicbrowser gmusicbrowser
- GNOME Simple Stateful Music Player gssmp (GNOME Simple Stateful Music Player)
- JuK JuK
- Muine Muine
- Listen Listen
- Lsongs Lsongs
- Rhythmbox Rhythmbox
- Songbird Songbird
- Towel Towel
- Quod Libet Quod Libet
- XMMS XMMS
- XMMS2 XMMS2
