Which mp3 player to use?

[Vaughn Treude]

I've used mpg321; it seems to work OK.  I haven't done anything fancy
with it, though.

Vaughn

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 00:31, Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> Which mp3 player is best to use? 
> 
> On my system, I see all these: KsCD, Amarok, Aumix, Grip, KAudioCreator, KMix,
> RoseGarden, and Sound Recorder ... but no xmms. 
> 
> None of those listed seem to be mp3 players. 
> 
> Searching the net, I found the following mp3 players listed on one site: 
> 
> MJS MP3 Jukebox System: MJS is a console mp3-player with some special features
> not found in most console based mp3-players. It features a search function,
> playlist saving and loading and an easy to use interface.
> 
> XAudio: Xaudio is a fast and robust, multi-platform solution for digital
> playback, especially targeted at MPEG Audio (MP1, MP2, and MP3) decoding. It
> is offered in the form of a developer's kit (SDK), which includes the Xaudio
> decoding engine.
> 
> Zinf Audio Player: The Zinf audio player is a simple, but powerful audio
> player for Linux and Win32. It supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD
> playback, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming, RTP streaming, a powerful music
> browser, theme support and a download manager.
> 
> mpg123: mpg123 is a real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1,2 and Layer3. It
> hasn't been updated in some time.
> 
> mpg321: mpg321 is a Free replacement for mpg123, a very popular command-line
> mp3 player.
> 
> AlsaPlayer: AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily
> multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.
> It has some veryinteresting features unique to Linux/Unix players.
> 
> Recommended! X Multimedia System: A very popular Linux MP3 player that is very
> similar to WinAmp. It also supports similar hotkey keyboard functions to those
> supported by WinAmp.
> 
> How is one supposed to determine which are the best options? 
> 
> 
> 
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