My sacrifice!

Jup, thats right! Well, to some extent at least.

I have a somewhat big music collection and I’ve yet to find a linux music player/organizer that I would feel confortable using. They all look fine at first but after a few minutes of use they all seam useless.

BMPx looks like the most promissing because of its resemblance to XMMS (that I am used to), but it has a few wierd GUI things and too few keyboard shortcuts. Besides that, the library is not what I would call a library - it’s just a hierarchial list, sorted by author. I have that already in my filesystem and it’s easyer to use even.

GMusicBrowser has some nice GUI solutions but I find it hard to get used to it. It keeps a separate Playlist (or Queue) from music browser/organizer and in a way I find very awkward and hard to use. All in all… I’ll keep my eye on this one.

Banshee is a nice atempt to make a clone of my other favorite music player - iTunes. It looks good, has a staight forward interface, etc. But it has a problem… I can’t get it to work on my computer! I’ve tried it on another one but it just isn’t the same without my music collection. I guess I’ll have to work a little more to get Mono running (or to figure out how to get it running right). But this one shows potential.

Rhythmbox on another hand, I don’t get. It’s slow, it crashes now and then for no aparent reason and is not neary as interface-polished as Banshee. I’ll still keep an eye on it, tough.

wxMusic is the closest to the ideal music “iTunes-like” organiser on linux, but.. well, it crashes during library import and I can’t figure out which file is causing it to crash every single time and why!

Zinf on the other hand, is the closest thing to “XMMS-like” player with built-in music browser. It’s quite nice to use, but again, importing a huge pile of files is not what it has in mind. I’ll try with smaller pieces of “the pile”… And for some reason seams very sluggish - slow.

There are a few players (mBox, GMerlin, Bluefunk, Eina, Jamboree, Listen, mpg321player, Muine, Quodlibet, …) and other tools (CowBell, Wired (well, not really on-topic, but interesting nonetheless), Gnomoradio, Soma, MediaNET, …) I’ve haven’t tried yet, so I’m still positive I’ll eventualy find “The One” (music player that is :)

And if I fail, well, in the end there is always XMMS and a huge pr0n collection (in case the “Other one” does not find her way my way :)

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