9 Top Alternative Linux Music Players

Posted by sde on Jun 26, 2010 2:23 PM EDT
LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms
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Reinventing the wheel is sometimes viewed as a significant barrier to the development of open source software. Critics point out that if developers simply collaborated more with each other, instead of creating yet another Linux distribution or programming another text editor, this would help to simplify matters for users, and actually significantly advance the development of established open source projects.

Personally, I like choice. Having the opportunity to select from dozens of mainstream Linux distributions and choose the one that best fits my requirements works really well. The same applies for the individual applications that are included in a Linux distribution.

Even with the abundance of Linux multimedia software, users are often polarised into one of three camps - either the music management application Rhythmbox (inspired by Apple's iTunes), the Rediscover music world of Amarok, or the feature-laden Banshee media player.

Our Audio Software Group Test identified a number of other quality audio players worthy of attention besides the aforementioned trio. For this feature, we wanted to identify top-notch audio players which receive even less attention in Linux publications.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 9 excellent audio players.

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