“Welcome to part 2 of our Linux Media Player Roundup. Today
we’ll be covering a few more Linux Media Players and showing you
each of them, and what makes them special. But first, I’d like to
add a few clarifications from part 1. One of our readers was kind
enough to point out an extra feature in Amarok that I was unaware
of the first time I tested it. It has the ability to add
‘pluggable’ backend support for a variety of different multimedia
engines, such as Xine, Gstreamer and more. I didn’t find this the
first time, or simply overlooked it, but I did find it the second
time, which means that its issues with media playback should be
solvable by simply changing the multimedia engine that it uses.“The second comment was that I had mentioned about how BMPx
would eventually rival Amarok, iTunes and more…”