#sh Blog - Entries tagged as Rhythmbox

I already now a few players for the Linux desktop, like Rhythmbox, Banshee, Muine, AmaroK, Exaile and some others. Some of them have developed to really nice pieces of software, like Banshee and Rhythmbox, which offer a nice music management along with a nice GUI. I already wrote about the upcomming version of Banshee for example.
Today I discovered (via blog-post) another nice player which is still quite young, but looks good. It's name is BMPx following the Beep Media Player (BMP), but it has a completely new interface. The Integration of music web-services is well done. Like Last.fm for example. But it also offers other stuff you already know from Rhythmbox, like Jamendo integration and of course Podcast and Internet-Radio management. Worth to give it a try at least.

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Since yesterday I have the very bleeding edge version of Rhythmbox on my Computer [Screenshot]. I have to admit that there are some nice GUI modifications, that have been made since the last version I have seen. Rhythmbox was the Music-Player and Tool which could convince me most so far. Actually I am using Rhythmbox from it's very beginning and tried already many other music players too. But somehow I always came back to Rhythmbox, because it developed to exactly what I expect of a todays music player.
It's not overloaded, as AmaroK for example and has a clear GUI. It has become also very stable recently and does everything a user needs, including a growing number of useful plugins. Also the way tracks are organized satisfied me more, than in all the other players I have seen so far.
So I really have to say thank you to the developers of Rhytmbox. Thank you, that you made dealing with digital music a more convinient thing!

You can find a variety of Rhythmbox screenshots, among other linux-apps in my Linux Apps Gallery.

Maybe you heard already about Jamendo. It is a plattform for Creative-Commons licenced music. It's mainly used by newcomers and less famous artists to promote and share their music. So the plattform provides all it's soundfiles in proper file-formats (no DRM) for free download.
Though browsing and downloading each track first is not that convinient on an every day base. Probably some developers thought the same and wrote a nice plugin for Rhythmbox, the famous music player for the GNOME-Desktop.
So, if you are using Rhythmbox 0.9.8 (or higher), you just need to enable the Jamendo plugin and you can play and browse the Jamendo tracks, as if they would be on your own computer. Because that's so nicely integrated into Rhythmbox it's a nice extension to any local music-collection, without having the hassle, of getting all tracks or playlistfiles onto your disk first.
Actually another good reason to use Rhythmbox, which is still my player of choise, eventhough I am always happy to try other players too.

Screenshot of Rhythmbox with the plugin in action.