Linux Media Players

Amarok:
"the best one for me is amaroK. Based on Gstreamer, has support for various data bases, fast search, dynamic mode, radio."
"I agree, amaroK is great! I've been using gnome for years now, but amaroK might be a reason to make me switch back to KDE. Actually, it's not really amaroK itself, but more kparts, because it's no problem to run amaroK under gnome."

XMMS - a free software audio player very similar to Winamp
Initial release: November 1997
Forks include:
Beep Media Player — 2003-2005
BMPx - Latest release: 0.40.14 (2008-04-07)
Audacious - Latest release: 1.5.1 (2008-05-23)

Rythmbox:
Initial release: (2001-08-18)
Stable release: 0.11.6 (2008-07-09)

Exaile

Banshee: a music management and playback application for GNOME. created by Aaron Bockover in early 2005.
Stable release: 1.4 (2008-10)
http://banshee-project.org

Music Player Deamon - a database-using music player server
Initial release: 2003
Stable release 0.14.0 (2008-12-20)

Quod Libet - a GTK+-based audio player application written using the Python programming language.
Stable release: 2.0 — 13 September 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quod_Libet

wxMusik:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxMusik
http://musik.berlios.de/

Resources:
The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers - Posted November 28, 2005
http://lwn.net/Articles/160704/

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