What's the best free software alternative to Windows Media Player?
I'm using Windows at the moment but please let me know what the best one is for Linux too so I know what to look forward to.
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VLC ftw!
Submitted by Mauro Bieg on Wed, 2007-04-25 07:06.
Vote!VLC is a very solid cross-platform multimedia player which has support for almost every format. The other big crossplatform player is MPlayer. Both being free software.
Of course they run on GNU/Linux too, but there, there are also many other decent players availlable.
Wow!
Submitted by Goosiegoose on Wed, 2007-04-25 20:18.
Vote!What a quick response! Thank you so much for the link. That looks great. I'm downloading it as we speak, and I can't wait to try it.
Thanks again Mauro
Banshee
Submitted by Jonathan Roberts on Sat, 2007-04-28 09:37.
Vote!Banshee is a very cool music app more similar to iTunes or Realplayer than WMP but does its job really well. From the video point of view though VLC, MPlayer or Xine are all great options which will also play music files :D
Jon
LSongs
Submitted by yale2011 on Sun, 2007-04-29 12:46.
Vote!Have you looked at Lsongs? It seems like a good replacement for WMP's music capabilities.
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JuK or Amarok for KDE, or Banshee for GNOME
Submitted by Andrew Min on Thu, 2007-05-24 01:29.
Vote!All three are Linux only.
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