Songbird is pretty nice alright. It’s built on Mozilla’s code to create the Firefox of music. However, it is not native, not to Linux anyways, which causes problems. So I was looking for another music player that would have the same or similar functionality… and I found one.
The name is Exaile (probably pronounced “exhale”, only with a silent “h”).
The player is based on the GTK framework and comes with quite a few things out of the box. For example you have support for MTP devices (like phones that need a rather special synchronization mode), iPod support (don’t know if iPod touch too), amongst others. There’s last.fm support, ShoutCast support, as well as notifications if you’re on Linux. Pretty cool eh? It however lacks a music store, but oh well.
No Cover Flow, but still a pretty awesome player
If you want you can create plug-ins for the player, extending its functionality. One of the plugins that you can install out of the box is support for shared iTunes libraries, so you can listen to your friend’s music.
A pretty cool player, it now has replaced Songbird for me. Try it out, I think you’ll like it.
Ubuntu users perform a
sudo apt-get install exaile
in the console, or use the package manager to get it.
Exaile
Type: Music player and manager
License: Open Source
Platform: Linux
Arch: x86
Web: Exaile | Music Player
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