Best Media Players for Linux

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix, and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before, and it looks good doing it! Much of where work has been invested in Amarok 2 is the Web services integration. Now Amarok can connect to various Web services and access the music directly, greatly expanding the potential number of songs at your fingertips. Thanks to the powerful API, adding additional services can be done with very little effort. Scrobble and listen to any Last.fm radio stream with fully featured Last.fm integration. Buy tracks from the integrated Magnatune store, and help support the music labels. Connect remotely to an Ampache music server and browse search, and playback media files. Find, subscribe, and download audio and video podcasts from all over the ultimate podcast directory. Listen to streaming audio books straight from the Librivox catalog.

Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has a user-friendly interface so that even first-time users can start immediately playing their movies, from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file. Media player with support for digital television (DVB-C/S/S2/T, ATSC, CI/CAM) It is now possible to run Kaffeine from Docker without installing it on your machine by using Docker. You need to have Docker already installed and configured. By default, libVLC will try to use hardware acceleration on the machine with Kaffeine. As described in Kaffeine's documentation, xmltv files are now supported. Kaffeine's internal logic will map the channels obtained by the grabber into the channel names it has stored internally.

Rage is a video and audio player written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) with some interesting features. Rage is a simple video and audio player intended to be slick yet simplistic, much like Mplayer. Use the command line to play media files or just drag and drop them onto the Rage window to add them to a playlist. Run Rage with no command-line arguments to enter video browser mode. From here you can display a graphical overview of everything on your playlist by hitting the / key or just hovering your mouse over the right-hand side of the window. Rage also has a full set of key controls. It automatically searches for and displays album art when playing music if they aren't already cached. It even generates thumbnails for video timelines and allows you to preview clips by hovering your mouse over the position bar at the bottom of the window. Rage will cache any album covers it downloads for future use.

TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.