“One of my favorite open source applications is Amarok, a music
player with an intuitive interface that makes boring tasks such as
organizing large music collections less troublesome. The only
problem with Amarok is that it’s a KDE application and I’m a GNOME
user. Although there’s nothing wrong with running KDE programs on
GNOME, they take a long time to start, since they need to load the
KDE libraries and components they depend on first. I’ve found a
good alternative in Exaile, my new favorite media player for
Linux.“Exaile is similar to Amarok, but it’s based on GTK+ (the GIMP
Toolkit), the same GUI toolkit GNOME uses, and thus it loads almost
instantly on GNOME and integrates nicely with it…”
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