Anyone who uses computers might want to listen to music, or watch movies. Linux operating systems are no different. Since Linux has two different operating system environment, one a server operating system, that usually doesn’t have a GUI desktop (X-Windows), and the Desktop operating system edition, which does come with the GUI (X-windows) built-in, and is similar to what most people know as the Microsoft operating systems (Windows XP, 7, Vista etc….).

There are those who prefer to use open source operating systems,
which are free of charge and not use the overpriced Microsoft operating systems (which are more common). Those who uses Linux on their everyday work do need those applications that everyone uses on their laptops or PCs, including watching movies, or streaming movies on the internet and of course listening to audio, to music.

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  • Linux Audio players:

•    Rhythmbox – This audio player was influenced by the Apple’s iTunes application. Works best on the Linux Gnome desktop and based on Gstreamer media framework.

•    GMPC – (Gnome music player client) – an easy to use and a good simple looking music player daemon. This application is actually an home media player system.

•    XMMS – (The X Multimedia System) – Since Linux desktop editions are called X-windows, this player works and fits all of the Linux distribution desktops. Even though it is being used even on other operating system types (like windows), it has special features that works only on a Linux OS.

•    Sonata – This one is a lightweight GTK+ music client application. it is user friendly and simple to use.

•    Audacious – This application is an advanced music player application that supports an immense amount of music types, different plug-ins and codecs.

•    Mplayer: Listening to and recording audio and video streams with MPlayer.

  • Linux Audio for Linux – Guides

•    How it works: Linux audio explained
•    Streaming Audio in Linux
•    Sound & MIDI Software For Linux
•    10 Best Linux Audio players