Audioplayers are easy, right?
I love music. When I moved to Linux I started out with XMMS, a WinAmp Clone, no surprises there, things worked as I was used to. Along came the "Library based" players that offered so much more functionality: Instead of having to know where my files are I could just use the Metatags to find the music I wanted to listen to, it was the jump away from "playing a file" towards "playing a song". After all kinds of tests left and right I settled with KDE's Amarok that offered the most features at the time. It always felt alien in my pretty much completely GTK/GNOME based desktop but it was the best tool for the job so I stuck with it for quite a while albeit always looking for something better.
I tried many of the Banshee incarnations, Rhythmbox, Listen, Exaile, if it somehow built I ran it for a while.
Because audio players are boring nowadays. Amarok threw away all its code to port itself to the new KDE. Now they released their RC1 for the 2.0 version today that is pretty ugly, lacks features and basically leaves me very unimpressed, it's like taking half the features of Amarok 1.X and slapping a new (but not better) GUI on top. Banshee is not bad but also boring, same mix of cloning iTunes and the free competition.
Right now I have a hard time getting excited about any audio player out there right now. Why? Cause they all include the same basic things:
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