NewsForge: Free Software’s New Audio Heir Apparent

“While proprietary OSs have been blessed by an onslaught of
competing audio players, the Free Software world has remained
relatively stagnant since XMMS was released in 1997. Recently,
however, there has been a lot of development work surrounding Free
Software media players. I ran across several audio programs worth
looking into, including mpd, muine, and musikcube, but the most
promising program I found is Rhythmbox.

“Many of us have large digital music collections, and Free
Software’s most popular media player, XMMS, along with its
relatives, are ineffective tools for dealing with larger libraries.
Hunting through a directory hierarchy to find all versions of Sunny
Side of the Street on your computer can be an excruciatingly
tedious task…”

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