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Linux Music Player

Planning on moving to Ubuntu. What's recommended and available from the repositories?

Does it have?

* Cue-sheet support (if it can read embeded cue sheets in FLAC or WavPack files, even better)

* Music transcoding (lossless to lossless and lossless to lossy -- if it can support Nero AAC encoder out of the box or via a plugin too, fantastic)

Linux Music Player

Reply #1 –
LOL. I was about to reply that you should use Amarok, but upon reading your post I don't know of any (single) player that will do what you want.

This would be why Foobar is one of my killer apps for Windows
EAC>1)fb2k>LAME3.99 -V 0 --vbr-new>WMP12 2)MAC-Extra High

Linux Music Player

Reply #2 –
I'm on Ubuntu and I've tried Gnome's Rythmbox, Amarok and Audacious so far.

Amarok was okay but then it started acting weird (didn't start anymore) so I switched to Audacious. Audacious looks like the old WinAMP, supports quite a lot of formats including CUE sheets. There're also nice plugins available like "global hotkey", and "scrobbler".



I still miss Foobar's mass tagging / transcoding features. That's why I occasionally use Foobar2K unter Linux (wine).

Cheers,
SG

Linux Music Player

Reply #3 –
On Hardy Heron + Wine Foobar2000 works fine for me. No soundstutters.

I use this because no other player has the features I want

Edit: There is a topic abaout that in the foobar2000 general section

Linux Music Player

Reply #4 –
Foobar2000 under wine is certainly an option.

Quod Libet is also worth a look, and has cuesheet support - but none of the transcoding support you are looking for.

Linux Music Player

Reply #5 –
Another vote for wine+foobar2000. It worked fine when I tried it (running Hardy Heron 64-Bit), except that it crashed when the Album Art viewer was enabled. I already used it to transcode ape->lame mp3, but there could of course be problems with other command line encoders.

Linux Music Player

Reply #6 –
Audacious looks like the best choice I think. It does have cuesheet support and can transcode to wav/mp3/vorbis/flac with the filewritter plugin.

Aqualung might be another option but no idea if it's in ubuntu's repositories.

Linux Music Player

Reply #7 –
IIRC, audacious' cue sheet plugin is buggy, and the filewriter plugin isn't bit-perfect. To be confirmed though.

Linux Music Player

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