Beautiful Music: Have Your Linux Desktop Singing in No Time Grand Forks ND

Posted by : Eric Foster-Johnson

The GNOME and KDE desktop environments, used in most Linux desktop systems, each sport a number of music playing applications. KDE, for example, usually includes Noatun and Kaboodle, among other applications. The GNOME desktop includes a CD player and an audio file player. Each of these applications can work fine in other desktop environments.

The granddaddy of Linux music players is XMMS, the X Multi-Media System. XMMS looks and works much like Winamp, a popular Windows application. One of the reasons for its enduring popularity is that XMMS supports a number of plug-ins, software add-ons that extend the core XMMS application to deliver new features.

Plug-ins for XMMS include CDcover and Cover Viewer, both download and show album covers. Quite a few plug-ins show graphics to help visualize the music.

A special XMMS-Winamp bridge plug-in allows you to run visualization plug-ins for the Windows application Winamp on XMMS on Linux. (This is only supported for Linux on Intel systems.) Other XMMS plug-ins are also available.

The Album Cover Art Downloader, which downloads album covers from Amazon.com, allows you to get a good set of album cover images.

The program 123mp3 helps convert your ...

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