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Have you tried Audacious? What are you missing? There are more good & free players for Linux than I could count with my fingers.

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The best music player I've used so far is FooBar2000 on Windows. I wish there was an exact clone for Linux.

As ridiculous as this sounds - this is the only reason that I keep an XP installation on one of my machines at home. I've tried Banshee, Rhythmbox, and AmaroK, but they all just felt clunky coming from F2K.

Based on other comments here, it sounds like I need to give Audacious a shot.

Same here, I have a small nettop box with 7 installed just for Winamp and a few other, windows-only programs. I just tried Audacious, however, and it's very good. The only thing I miss is a hotkey for "toggle windowshade mode", but I think I can live without it.

Amarok was a pretty good option - my favourite on Linux, but some years back they rewrote it and broke it.

Try deadBeef.

Screenshot: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/deadbeef-ultimate-music-player-for...

Trying it now. Thanks for the suggestion. Looks good so far.

It's not as configurable, but still is pretty familiar for fans of Foobar2000. But i'm growing fond of rythmbox, but then again i think i'm moving away from config complexity overall.

Eg. my recent switch from MirandaIM(win) to Pidgin(on ubuntu) and now empathy.

The browsing radio, jamendo, magnatune features are nice on rhythmbox.

Foobar2000 is wonderful. Making the switch from iTunes to Foobar2000 was actually an even nicer change than switching from IE6 to Firefox. It's that much better. For any poor soul still attempting to use iTunes on Windows, I beg you, try Foobar2000. It's just so much more pleasant to use.

The Media Library :(

EDIT: Okay, I just tried Audacious again, and I have to admit, it's 95% of Winamp, I'm very happy with it. The only two things I don't like is that it's in the alt+tab list and that it doesn't have a media library, but, other than that, it's amazing, thank you!

I miss Winamp for its simplicity and the pencilamp skin. It was beautiful.

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