I've been looking for a replacement for Amarok. I don't like the idea of depending on KDE software unless I really need to.I've settled for the really nice Songbird, which has a very active development team (blog) and is based on Mozilla (xulrunner). For me, it's perfect. I have a fairly large music library and it's nice to once again have the ability to discover it. One big playlist is actually a huge advantage compared to Amarok's design where your playlist consists only of a small, manually selected subset of your music collection. I know there are dynamic playlists in Amarok and blah, blah, but those features just didn't cut it for me. Plus it's nice to see there are quite a few plugins for Songbird.
It's not faster than Amarok but it's not slower either. There are a few bugs, most notably one regarding handling of symlinks in watch directory. I guess it'll be fixed in due time.
Unfortunately, it's not packaged for Debian GNU/Linux yet. You can still download it and run it from your home directory though. I urge you to try it out!
Get songbird.
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