Alternatives to Amarok?

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Sat Nov 17 00:38:17 GMT 2007


On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, "Norman Ma" <norm1991 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering whether there's a suitable alternative to my favourite
> music player, Amarok. Is there any other music player out there which can
> use MySQL (or PostgreSQL) as its collection database ? SQLite isn't as
> viable an option for me, because any program using it (such as Exaile)
> maxes my CPU to 100%, and my music collection is 50 000+ tracks.

Some alternatives off the top of my head:

Rhythmbox
Banshee
Muine
Quod Libet
Songbird

They are roughly comparable to Amarok, but I have no idea what they use for a 
DB backend.


-- 
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surrender any material part of their advantage." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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