On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:07, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > In Windows I have used Musicmatch Jukebox. Is there something comparable, > or something you would recommend, to play MP3's in Linux? > > Thank you,
Woah! Let the flamewars begin! There's a HEAP of choices out there, just about every beginning Linux geek tries his hand a writing an mp3 player :-). Some are really simple single file players, and then there's the video players like Xine and MPlayer that play MP3 in addition to video, but I'll skip those here, seeing as you want a MusicMatch replacement I assume you want a proper music database manager, tagger, ripper, etc. In the KDE world, my personal favourite is Juk: clean and simple but top quality with the best tagging tools. Amarok is preferred by others for all the bells and whistles. I haven't used them, but under Gnome there's Rhythmbox and Beep(?). And of course, there's the venerable XMMS. For ripping MP3's, there's also a lot of choices, but KAudioCreator or Grip are the two usually preferred. For burning to CD's the only real choice is K3B, which has some integrated ripping functions. You will probably find at least one of these already in your Mandrake menu under Multimedia/Sound, or you'll find them waiting for installation in the Software Manager under the Sound group. You may need to define Contribs as a source, and you will definitely need PLF to install lame to rip CD's to MP3. Cheers! John. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205
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