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gregghz
Asked: 2010-10-15 12:49:34 +0800 CST

What's a Good Rhythmbox Replacement?

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I'm looking to get rid of rhythmbox as my primary music player. Preferably something that allows multiple folders for the music library and has support for the new sound indicator.

Mostly I want more playback options that Rhythmbox lacks like a related suffle or mood shuffle type of thing. Also, auto rating based on listening habits would be nice (like Rhythmbox used to have).

I have tried Exaile and Banshee. But I couldn't add more than one folder to my library.

Let me know what you all have experienced with various different players. Even some good rhythmbox plugins to add these types of features would be great.

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    You can get around the one folder restriction by using symbolic links.
    Say your music folder is ~/Music and you want to import ~/OtherMusic, you can put a symbolic link for ~/OtherMusic inside the ~/Music folder.

    In a terminal: ln -s ~/OtherMusic ~/Music

    You might need to restart your music player for it to notice the sym-link.

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  2. Check this little gem out, http://exaile.org/ its goal is to be like amarok but runs natively in GTK.

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  3. I would suggest to check out banshee media player

    http://banshee.fm/

    see in the page the tab features...

    and it has ubuntu one integration too via plugins search in synaptic :

    banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore

    and it has a lot of plug-ins search in synaptic banshee

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  4. I would suggest Audacious.

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  5. Amarok used to be really good for features. Give it a shot.

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  6. Exaile has a collection manager. You should be able to add as many media locations as you need for it to manage your collections.

    Exaile Collection Manager

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  7. I've found that this Rhythmbox plugin works allowing "related shuffle" type of playback. Install it, enable it, and add a sing to the Play Queue. Start the Play Queue song and it checks for related artists in Last FM and queues up one song from your library that is similar. It is rudimentary, but it is the only one I've found that works.

    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2007-November/msg00047.html

    The download link is in that message.

    Tested as working on Rhythmbox 0.13.1

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  8. I would suggest to check out DeadBeef and Clementine (Amarok Fork).

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  9. After trying most of the alternative options over the last 4 or 5 releases of Ubuntu, my favorite alternative to Rhythmbox is Clementine. It has most of the same features that Rhythmbox has and runs with fairly low CPU usage on my 2.2 GHz system, compared to Banshee or Exaile. About the only thing it doesn't allow me to do is cross-scrobble from Libre.fm to Last.fm (admittedly, doing this in Rhythmbox is a setting hack).

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  10. Have you tried Quodlibet? It's available in package quodlibet: sudo apt-get install quodlibet

    You can add music folders with Music -> Open folder... (Ctrl+O). It may take a while to scan a whole directory hierarchy, especially if you have a large collection; you won't see new music until the scan is finished.

    The basic interface is rather "barebones", but it has a lot of plugins to enrich it (select menu Music -> Plugins)

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