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Postby alberto_chaos on Tue May 01, 2012 1:34 pm

Hello, I've recently migrated to LMDE XFCE, and I've been searching around a music player like Banshee or Amarok. Banshee is out of question since it uses Mono, Amarok is a way to go but, if there is any alternative that doesn't requires all those KDE libraries, I would give it a try. Any comments are also appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Music Player

Postby Monsta on Tue May 01, 2012 2:16 pm

Some recommended software (not only music players) can be found here: http://wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps
If you're looking for something like Amarok, take a look at Clementine, a player with look & feel almost like the old Amarok 1.4 (the one from KDE3). It doesn't require KDE, only Qt 4 and some usual media libs.
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Re: Music Player

Postby squeezy on Tue May 01, 2012 2:34 pm

I've been using Quod Libet recently and like it very much. Maybe not as full-featured as some but it suits me just fine.
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Re: Music Player

Postby craigevil on Tue May 01, 2012 4:17 pm

gogglesmm - Goggles Music Manager
deadbeef - Ultimate music player for GNU/Linux systems
clementine - modern music player and library organizer
quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK+
minirok - a small music player written in Python and inspired by Amarok
gmusicbrowser - graphic jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files
foobnix - Simple and powerful music player for Linux

Lots of choices that do not involve either Gnome or KDE getting pulled in.
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Re: Music Player

Postby Brian49 on Tue May 01, 2012 4:26 pm

May I just mention Parole, a GStreamer-based multimedia player developed specifically for Xfce. Not many bells & whistles, but good solid playing performance. It's in the repositories.
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Re: Music Player

Postby zerozero on Tue May 01, 2012 6:47 pm

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Re: Music Player

Postby kei84 on Thu May 03, 2012 11:25 am

EXAILE is great.

I'm using it with LMDE without any problem :D
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Re: Music Player

Postby squeezy on Thu May 03, 2012 12:56 pm

Thanks to the shouts here I just installed Exaile. Nice! Seems to be working well on my MATE/Wheezy/OSS4 setup. Very minimal dependancies pulled in too, I like that :D

Gotta figure out to enable multimedia key support, just ticking the plugin for Gnome MM support didn't work. Overall very nice though!
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Re: Music Player

Postby äxl on Mon May 07, 2012 4:36 am

Rhythmbox needs Gnome, right?
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