AmaroK or Rhythmbox?

Since I like the gnome desktop better, Rhythmbox is standard installed on my PC. Personally I like AmaroK better (since it has audioscrobbler support and better tag control). What do you guys think?

I used to use Rhythmbox, but it then decided to not let me play any of my music. Probably because I was running Breezy. So, having heard good things about amarok, I tried it, installed the xine engine, and was happy. So, when I went to launch it for a second time, it went and used up a bunch of CPU and wouldn't load.

So I used beep-media-player :P.

But now I'm happy with amarok (+ xine engine), since it has things like last.fm integration included nicely, which rhythmbox lacks. I'm not sure if Rhythmbox decided to fix itself or not.

I use muine, basicly because i love albumart and it has better last.fm support than rhythmbox, wish banshee would support those two soon, as it looks really promising...

I'm using Quod Libet at the moment.. I'd like to give Banshee a go, but can't until I upgrade to Breezy :(

EDIT - realised that was a bit OT, so.. I'd say RB, since Banshee is more like that, I have Amarok installed now, but find it too cluttered and maybe it just has too much power packed into one interface. There's just something about it that I don't quite like.

I had the same scenario - much prefer the Gnome desktop, but suffer from liking all the features amaroK provides (particularly now with Wikipedia support, lyrics, etc.) so I went with that.

So far it works pretty well for me although occassionally I suffer sound problems, but those are much more likely due to some incorrect tweaking on my part of the volume controls / sound engine (running on an Apple Powerbook).

As was said earlier, if you're not suffering any problems with amaroK and you like it, then stick with it. If its crashing continuously, maybe look for something that will let you listen to your music for a bit longer. :-)

Dave

I use to use AmaroK..great program if abit bloated. Tried Rhythmbox for awhile..just wasnt as impressed :/ Eventually I looked for a command-line alternative to those two and found mpd which i now use today.

amarok, are you kidding?

its the best by far.

Rhythmbox has replaygain support!
Amarok has dynamic mode!

None of 'em has a good tagger.

And foobar2000 is win-only... :(

im have ubuntu 5.10 installed und amarok as the only KDE application.
using gstreamer as output.
it runs fine. it only needs some libs and not the whole kde.
for tagging mp3s and other music files i recommend to use EasyTag.

Quoth megooz:
I just tried installing amarok-xine, and I must say, it now runs fluidly! AmaroK now really IS the best player ;-)


Thank you!
I loved Amarok even when it felt slow (it could take seconds to start playing a track when I click it or skip to it, and the equalisiers were totally off). But now I've just installed amarok-xine, and its fixed all that.

Wooo!

Thank you again :)

i tried several tagging tools using gtk+, (cantus, cantus3, easytag, tagtool) and the one i now use is tagtool : it is really simple and powerful : 1st it supports all id3v1/v2 and ogg tags (full ogg, including date of records, performer, copyright..) and it can tag a whole of files at the same time, for example on the album title, or composer. it can also rename files from tags, and tag from file patterns.
realy, it is easy to use. and powerfull.
$ sudo apt-get install tagtool

@ mezz: glad I could help :-)
My collection also has problems loading in RB, same as in Traktor DJ studio back when I used Windows. Strange thing, never knew what was the prob... Anyhoo, AmaroK does the trick, and I thank the KDE development team for that (even though I don't like Konqueror ;-) )

Unless you have the K desktop don't go anywhere near amaroK.
It's by far the best player but doesn't run well on anything but KDE. That's why a few of you are experience high CPU usage as gnone is accessing lots of KDE files as background orerations.