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Old 02-27-2014
Question Music Player

As you all know from my first [stupid questioned] post I am kinda new to linux. I'm starting to get some terminal commands in but What is the best music player to use for linux [Linux Mint 16] Please excuse the stupidity of my questions until I get going on linux. My appologies.
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Old 02-27-2014
Which is 'best' depends entirely on what you want to do with it. Often a window manager or distribution will have its own pet media player, web browser, mail program, etc etc bundled with it, which may or may not be sufficient for your purposes.

If you're familiar with VLC, it's available for Linux.

Other common media players include mplayer - its UI isn't the best, but it plays well with the shell, and is sometimes useful as a conversion utility -- and Xine, which has a better UI.

Last edited by Corona688; 02-27-2014 at 01:38 PM..
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Old 02-27-2014
From the command line, most Linux flavours have aplay .

The near equivalent for OSX 10.7.5+ is afplay ...

Just search "man aplay" on the WWW and there is all manner of things it can do.

arecord is the command line recorder...

Enjoy...
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Old 02-27-2014
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Originally Posted by wisecracker
From the command line, most Linux flavours have aplay .
That only played wav last I checked. Have they updated it?
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Old 02-27-2014
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Originally Posted by Corona688
That only played wav last I checked. Have they updated it?
AFAIK "aplay" can't do *.AIFF but nearly every other format it can.
It can even do *.RAW files with a small amount of command line options.

Not sure about "arecord" though...

EDIT:

There is always Sound eXchange, (SoX), which is extremely powerful from the command line.

Last edited by wisecracker; 02-27-2014 at 02:54 PM.. Reason: See above...
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