10 Linux alternatives for Songbird

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As we mentioned earlier, Songbird has left the Linux herd and the Open Source pastures will become more green. However, what will Linux use to replace this wonderful music player, once declared as a substitute for iTunes?

Obviously, there are many options. In fact, I doubt whether Songbird will not be missed. But what are the substitutes for these Songbird? Let's take a look at the 10 most popular ones. They are not arranged in any particular order.

　　Banshee

Banshee is put first because of its powerful video management function and its only function of synchronizing videos with iPod. However, Banshee is not only good at video because it also has powerful music management functions. You can arrange your own music or use the automatic DJ function to play your music cyclically. It also has a random playback mode that can automatically capture album pictures when you listen.

Banshee can synchronize your iPod, Android, or other types of devices. You can also import multimedia files from the mobile media player to make grouping and management easier. Intelligent playlists and powerful search functions make this versatile player even more icing on the cake.

　　Amarok

From comments on the Amarok forum, you may think that it is the best media player/manager on the planet. From the perspective of functions provided by Amarok, these praises are taken for granted.

The powerful File Manager that combines tag, rename, sort, and other functions into a pop-up drop-down list simplifies the drag-and-drop operation. From this point, we can see that Amarok has a well-designed user interface. The bookmarks system allows you to mark any location of each audio track, while the automatic bookmarks function can remember the location of your podcast or audio book. Want to delete a part of files physically or move to another drive due to space problems? No problem, because Amarok will track your files to ensure that the statistics and playlist are intact.

If you think there is something missing on the interface, you can make it what you need -- Amarok contains a script-based API that supports various community-developed scripts.

　　Clementine

Clementine was originally a porting product of Amarok 1.4, a music player using QT4. Clementine maintains the excellent UI design of the old version of Amarok, allows you to edit music tags, download missing album pictures, and perform a complete search in the music library. It also provides a notification mechanism, which can be implemented using libnotify (Linux) or Growl (Mac). Both M3U and XSPF formats can be supported.

　　Guayadeque

Do not doubt new faces. Guayadeque is developed by UbuntuForums. Unlike other players listed here, Guayadeque provides a lightweight interface for fast playing music. This software uses a tab-based display mode. If you like this style, you will think it is very good.

Compared with other players, Guayadeque is lightweight and does not mean that it has a considerable number of functions missing. You can also find functions such as album image download, podcast subscription and automatic download, live broadcast support, and dynamic playback list. There is even a smart playback function that selects audio tracks based on the music you choose.

　　Rhythmbox

If you are a Gnome user, you are at least familiar with Rhythmbox. As the default Gnome music player, you may have stopped using it and switched to Songbird. If so, now is a good time to look back at it.

Rhythmbox uses iTunes as a template to easily browse your music library ...... GStreamer is used to support a wide range of audio formats. You can also find that it supports network broadcast and has excellent visualization effects. Rhythmbox captures podcasts for you and includes Magatune and Jamendo music libraries. Rhythmbox can also download album pictures and lyrics to make your multi-media library more complete.

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