Stupid simple music player?

Question

Here's what I want: I have a folder with MP3 files. I would like to play all the files in the folder, alphabetically. And I need a way to pause, skip to next file, and that's pretty much it.

I don't want to use my music player to organize my music library, I don't need connection to network services, and I don't even need ID3 support.

On Windows, WinAmp 2 did what I wanted. What's my best option on Ubuntu?

Answer 1

If you are looking for something lightweight than Rhytmbox, then try audacious

sudo apt-get install audacious

It is also present in Ubuntu Software Center. HTH

Answer 2

Personally I use moc in such cases. If you don’t mind it being in text mode, I recommend it.

Answer 3

You could use Totem, you can load/save playlists and it's pretty straight forward (and installed by default).

Edit: You might also want to have a look at XMMS, which is pretty similar to WinAmp.

Answer 4

I have been using exaile music player like it a lot

Answer 5

For your situation I'd recommend DeadBeeF. It's light, fast and, silly name aside, it can do exactly what you want. Just point the player to the folder you want to play, arrange the files alphabetically via the 'Title' column and let it play your music.

Answer 6

Straight out, I'd say use Rhythmbox (It's installed by default). It automatically scans your music folder and adds files when you drop them in there. Nothing fancy, it just works.

Answer 7

I'd recommend decibel-audio-player. Simple, lightweight, efficient and made just to play music. Best replace for winamp2 for me. It's available through standard repository and at launchpad.

Answer 8

Try moosic which has no ui at all. ;-)

(Well, it has a ui, but it can run in the background as a daemon.)

Answer 9

I would recommend cmus! It is a console-only player, and quite flexible when it comes to alphabetic ordering. To add all files in a directory, use:

1. :add ~/my_music (replace ~/my_music with your actual music folder)
2. :set lib_sort=filename (if you only want to sort by directory/filename)

Answer 10

mplayer - simply fire up a console and put in: mplayer /path_to_mp3s/*.mp3

You can control it by keyboard, <spacebar> to pause, <page up> to skip to next song etc.

It's console based, so you can set up convenient aliases for it. For example:

alias mp3='mplayer *.mp3' plays all mp3 in current directory.