2011/09/06

The Best Sound drivers in Linux

When searching for the best audio players for Linux, I was surprised that there is a lot of them and this a big disadvantage in the Source, a dispersion of efforts and lack of integration in a single project or two a lot (like what happened in Webber's Office)
Arrangement does not mean that preference, but worked hard in the search for the best

Banshee

Some features:Device Sync: Sync your music and videos to your Android, iPod, iPhone, or other device - or import its media

Podcasts: Download or stream podcasts and video podcasts
Album Art: Cover art is immediately fetched for your music
Powerful Search, Smart Playlists: Find exactly what you want, fast
Play Queue: Queue up songs, videos, and podcasts, or let the Auto DJ take over
Shuffle Modes: Shuffle (or Auto DJ) by artist, album, rating, or even songs' acoustic similarity
Gnome integration


website of the program:
http://banshee.fm
To view the properties of the program and a full load
Information will become the official operator for
Ubuntu 11.04

Amarok
Some features:
· Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation
· Music library (built-in sqlite or MySQL)
· Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS and aRts)
· 10 band equalizer
· Automatic cover art download using Amazon services
· The unique and powerful context browser
· Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)
· Full lyrics download
· Full Audioscrobbler support
· Visualisations with libvisual
· Streaming from any KIO source
· Crossfading
· Fully configurable OSD for track changes
· K3B (CD-burning) integration
· KDE integration

website of the program:
http://amarok.kde.org/en



aTunes
 
Some features:
Mp3 player
· Reads ID3v1, ID3v1.1 and ID3v2 tags (only essential information)
· Tag editor
· Show pictures of song: pictures inside ID3v2 tag, or in the same folder
· Load / save play list in m3u format
· Navigate through songs sorted by tag information or by folder
· Filters for fast find what you want
· Songs, albums or artists can be marked as favorites, and viewed through a special view
· Full view with all controls
· Simple view, with just essential controls
· Tiny view, to place window in a square of window
· Sticky borders for Simple and Tiny views
· Always on top property
· OSD (like amaroK)
· Five languages supported: english, spanish, french, german and portuguese
· State saved: repository, play list, last played song, shuffle, repeat, position in desktop, size, type of view

website of the program:
 
 
 
Guayadeque

 
Some features:
Play mp3, ogg, flac, wma, wav, mpc, mp4, ape, ...
Configurable crossfader engine
Configurable Silence detector to avoid listening to silence between tracks
Read and write tags in all supported formats
Allow to catalogue your music using labels. Any track, artist or album can have as many labels you want
Smart play mode that add tracks that fit your music taste using the tracks currently in play list
Ability to download covers manually or automatically
Suggest music using last.fm service
Allow fast access to any music file by genre, artist, album, etc
Play and Record shoutcast radios
website of the program:
http://guayadeque.org

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