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Jack Wallen takes stock of his five Linux music players.

No matter what you do, you sometimes have a little background music. Whether you're a developer, an operator, or a typical computer user, enjoying great music is probably one of the things you want to do on your computer. Also, with the upcoming holidays, you may receive gift cards that will allow you to buy a few new songs. If your music selection is digital (mine happens to be recorded) and your platform is Linux, you want a good GUI player to enjoy the music.

Fortunately, Linux has no shortage of good digital music players. In fact, there are quite a few players on Linux, most of which are open source and freely available. Let's take a look at some of them and see which one meets your needs.

Clementine

I want to start with the player that I have used for many years as the default option. Clementine is probably the best player that balances ease of use with flexibility. Clementine is a replica of the newly discontinued Amarok music player, but it's not limited to Linux; Clementine is also available on Mac OS and Windows. It has a number of amazing features, including:

Built-in equalizer

Customizable interface (displays the current album cover as background, see Figure 1)

Play local music or play music from Spotify, Last.fm, etc.

Sidebar for easy library navigation

Built-in audio transcoding (to MP3, OGG, Flac, etc.)

Remote control via Android app

Convenient search function

Tabbed playlists

Easy to create regular and intelligent playlists

Support for CUE files

support label

Figure 1: Clementine's interface may be a bit old-fashioned, but it's incredibly flexible and easy to use.

Of all the music players I've used, Clementine is by far the most versatile and easiest to use. It also includes the best equalizer you can find in Linux music players (ten bands to tune). Although its interface isn't trendy enough, its ability to create and manipulate playlists is ****. If you have a large music collection and you want complete control over your music collection, this is the player you want.

Clementine can be found in standard warehouses. It can be installed from your distribution's software center or from the command line.

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is the default player for the GNOME desktop, but it works well on other desktops as well. Rhythmbox's interface is slightly more stylish than Clementine's, and its design follows a minimalist philosophy. This doesn't mean it lacks features; instead Rhythmbox offers seamless playback, Soundcloud support, album cover display, audio import from Last.fm and Libre.fm, Jamendo support, podcast subscription (from Apple iTunes), remote control from the web, and more.

A nice feature found in Rhythmbox is support for plugins, which allows you to use features like DAAP Music Sharing, FM Radio, Cover Finder, Notifications, ReplayGain, Lyrics, etc.

The Rhythmbox playlist feature isn't as powerful as Clementine's, but organizing your music into any kind of quick playlist is easy. Although Rhythmbox's interface (Figure 2) is a bit more stylish than Clementine's, it's not as flexible as Clementine's.

Figure 2: The Rhythmbox interface is simple and straightforward.

VLC Media Player

For some, VLC is impeccable in terms of video playback. However, VLC is not limited to video playback. In fact, VLC does a good job of playing audio files as well. For KDE Neon users, VLC is the default player for both music and video. Although VLC is one of the most popular video players in the Linux market (it's my default player), it does have a slight flaw in audio--it lacks playlists and doesn't connect to remote repositories on your network. But if you're looking for a simple and reliable way to play local files or network mms/rtsp, VLC is the place to be. VLC consists of an equalizer (Figure 3), a compressor and a spatial stereo. It is also capable of recording from captured devices.

Figure 3: VLC equalizer in action.

Audacious

If you're looking for a lightweight music player, Audacious *** meets the requirements. The music player is fairly specialized, but it includes an equalizer and a small number of features that improve many audio effects (echo, silence cancellation, speed and pitch adjustment, voice removal, etc., see Figure 4).

Figure 4: Audacious equalizer and plug-ins.

Audacious also includes a very simple alarm function. It allows you to set an alarm that plays the selected music at a user-selected time point and for a duration of time.

Spotify

I have to admit, I use Spotify every day. I'm a Spotify subscriber and use it to discover and buy new music--which means I'm constantly discovering. Fortunately, Spotify has a desktop client that I can easily install by following Spotify's official Linux platform installation instructions. Seamless transitions between desktop clients and Android apps have also helped me a lot, so I never miss my favorite music.

Figure 5: Spotify official client on Linux.

Spotify's interface is so easy to use, in fact, it beats the web-based player. Don't install Spotify on Linux because desktop clients are much easier to create and manage your playlists. If you're a heavy Spotify user, you don't even need to use the built-in streaming client support of other desktop apps. Once you've used Spotify's desktop client, there's no comparison at all.

For me, Clementine and Spotify's combo is already a beautiful eulogy. Try them out to see which one best meets your needs.

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