Even though VLC isn’t among the apps I frequently use, I still wholeheartedly recommend it. The app would often shut down without any obvious reason while playing a file most of the other players wouldn’t struggle with, but it’s quite possible it’s not so much the player, as the file itself. Also, for some of the files I’ve used it with, the playback quality was far from stellar. What I personally don’t like about VLC is that it’s quite heavy on resources.
It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android, etc. VLC is highly customizable, and there are a lot of extensions for it. If you can’t play a file with it, it’s unlikely you will be able to open it with any other player.
VLC Though is best known as a movie player, it’s great as a music player, too, simply because it has the largest collection of codecs. If you don’t like it, just move on to the next option. All in all, it’s not a bad player, but this doesn’t mean you will like it the most. It supports MP3 and OGG, plus about a dozen other file formats, as well as Internet Radio, iPod integration, the playing of audio files, audio CD burning and playback, music sharing, and podcasts. It’s not only a music player, but also a music management app. Since it comes with Gnome, you can guess it’s a popular app. Rhythmbox Now that I have mentioned Amarok and the KDE music player, now let’s move to, the default Gnome music player. The app comes with a lot of documentation, though it hasn’t been updated recently.Īmarok is also famous for its integration with various web services such as Ampache, Jamendo Service, Last.fm, Librivox, MP3tunes, Magnatune, and OPML Podcast Directory. Amarok plays a huge array of music formats, but its main advantage is the abundance of plugins. This is probably one of the reasons why it’s a very popular player, though I personally don’t like it that much. It’s one of the oldest music players for Linux. Amarok is the KDE music player, though you certainly can use it with any other desktop environment. As for formats, Qmmp plays most of the popular ones such as MPEG1 layer 2/3, Ogg Vorbis and Opus, Native FLAC/Ogg FLAC, Musepack, WavePack, tracker modules (mod, s3m, it, xm, etc.), ADTS AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Monkey’s Audio (and other formats provided by FFmpeg library), PCM WAVE (and other formats provided by libsndfile library), Midi, SID, and Chiptune formats (AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, and VTX). Since I grew up with Winamp and loved its keyboard shortcuts, it was a nice surprise that they are present in the Linux version, too. It’s (relatively) lightweight and has a decent feature set. It does crash, and there are many files it can’t play, but nevertheless I still love it the most. SBD > Reel(0) > DAT > Mac (via Lucid PCI24) > CD-R, Set II Partial.
Was played back from studio tape while the band played space live on stage., SBD>MR>Cass. Help Falling in Love, Closing Vamp, - Bonus Tracks -, Alexandria, 3/29/77. I know there are better players, but I somehow just love this one and use it most of the time.īootleg CD (Jah's Love - Kiss the Stone label) > EAC > SHN > CDR. Qmmp isn’t the most feature-rich (or stable) Linux music player, but it’s my favorite one, and this is why I put it as number one. Shorten (SHN) is a lossless compression format and is used to losslessly compress CD- quality audio files (4.
SHN Converter - Directly Convert SHN to FLAC, MP3, WAV on Mac or PCSHN Converter Mac or Windows - Enable to Play SHN Files on any Media Player or Portable Device Tags: shn to flac, shn to mp.Keep the.shn files after converting them all to ALAC.
Anyone know of a good player for newer versions of Mac OS X that can handle BOTH.