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What media (music and video) players are there?
Please list one piece of software per answer, as per this meta post.
(Apparently Linux is not an officially supported port of Songbird anymore. You can still get untested nightly build from here, but YMMV)
Qmmp is a Qt audio player which provides a user interface similar to Winamp or Xmms. To install Qmmp in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:
sudo apt install qmmp
Qmmp can read almost any audio format such as:
This player supports a wide range of plugins such as:
DSP effects
BS2B effect
sample rate conversion
LADSPA effects (A very large collection of Open Source DSP plugins)
extra stereo
crossfade
Also, it's worth noting that Qmmp supports Winamp 2.x skins.
Although it is a freeware (non open source) windows application, and so require wine to be run, I think that foobar2000 is yet one of the best audio playes out there.
It supports a wide number of formats (MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND and more with additional components).
It has advanced tagging capabilities.
And most important to me, it supports the playing of single-wav-file CDs through CUE sheets to switch between tracks.
In my experience, for the sole purpose to play something fast and easy with a "right-click/open with..." or by relating certain files to a player, there is also the Dragon Player Which does an awesome and lightweight thus fast work, it can play both video/audio files (mp3/wav/avi/mpg, etc.) and/or discs (CD/VCD/DVD, etc.)
It uses KDE so you may need to install certain dependencies if you are not using KDE and not already installed, afterwards you'll find it fast running on Unity, Gnome and other environments.
It has not a lot of features, which makes of this the cleanest click-to-play media player.
From the site:
A video player with a different philosophy: Simple, uncluttered interface.
Features:
- Plays all video formats supported by Phonon.
- Bundled with a simple web-page KPart.
- Starts quickly. This is the KDE 4 version of the Codeine video player.
A screenshot of Dragon Player in action (don't expect to find anything else of which is shown in the screenshot):
Qmmp Player.
To install the latest version:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Already mentioned in the other answer.
The GUI can use a skin (Winamp-like, see linked answer) or a 'simple' interface, which in fact has a lot more features, including a file browser, and follows the system theme and icons:
To switch between these two, set as below and restart player:
I'd recommend xine, it is in the repository and plays HD content with lower resources than VLC.
Real Player - http://uk.real.com/realplayer/other-versions
Music and video Player, well known.
Note :Just for i386 architecture.
