Linux media player?

[Deeko]

Can anyone recommend a good Linux media player? I'm running Ubuntu 6.0.6. I installed a few from the package manager, noteably XMMS, Kaffeine, VLC, and amarok, but none of them are quite as good as Winamp. Any others I could try?

 

[shortylickens]

This is really gonna show my ignorance but I thought they had Winamp for Linux.

 

[Nothinman]

WinAMP for Linux was crap and I don't think it's developed any more.

BMP (Beep Media Player) is a slightly better version of XMMS, I've always thought them to be comparable to WinAMP. But it's hard to give advice since you don't specify what you don't like about the players you tried.

 

[Deeko]

well...

XMMS - sound quality doesn't seem to be very high
Kaffeine - annoying interface
VLC - seems more of a video player
amarok - crashes a lot, the autoplaylist is cool but doesn't pick up m4a's automatically (have some of them from my ipod)

I'll give BMP a try, thanks

 

[JeSpre]

I use foobar2000 via wine. I haven't found anything comparable for linux, even though I'd rather use a linux native program.

 

[Nothinman]

You could also check out Banshee or Quodlibet, but both of them will use a good bit more memory than BMP.