Rhythmbox
What is Rhythmbox?
Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's 
iTunes, it is free software that is designed to work well under the 
GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework.
Among the many features of Rhythmbox, you will find:
Easy to use music browser
Searching and sorting
Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
Playlists
Display audio visualizations
Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
Automatically download audio podcasts (also from iTunes)
Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo
iTunes, it is free software that is designed to work well under the 
GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. Among the many features of Rhythmbox, you will find:
Easy to use music browser
Searching and sorting
Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
Playlists
Display audio visualizations
Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
Automatically download audio podcasts (also from iTunes)
Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo
Recent user activities on Rhythmbox
- altersoft added Rhythmbox as alternative(s) to DivX
- diegozpy added Rhythmbox as alternative(s) to FluentCast
- nobody_alternativeto liked Rhythmboxna
For some reason, when you first start Rhythmbox (3.4.4) , you can't see the volume control and the songs will keep playing after you close the program, two "features" I don't like and almost made me quit it but luckily both of those issues can be solved through plugins. Overall, it's a very good player and owes nothing to Clementine/Strawberry, which are the best Windows players, IMO.
What a load of crap software! It adds every song you ever play automatically to your library. So, if you only want to play some audio books, but not mingling them with your music collection, you're lost. Apart from that, by default you can't even choose the folder for your library. It just says "multiple folders" and can't be altered unless you deactivate the Ubuntu One music store plugin. Canonical (who develops Ubuntu) should be ashamed to have chosen this piece of turd software as their default player. Try Clementine and you'll have more luck. Hell, even Exaile is better, though it's much simpler.
Let's say the music on your PC is in FLAC format for max. quality. You can set Rhythmbox up so it'll do on-the-fly transcoding to MP3 (e.g.) to save space when you drag and drop files to an external player like an iPod. Super convenient, right?
Inspired by Itunes? That is NOT a good thing. The farther you get from Itunes the closer you get to common sense and reality. Itunes is horrendous. I really want MediaMonkey back, but is is such a hassle to get working on Linux.
many frontends, codecs come in packages they can not be installed independent
Rhythmbox crashes when it tries to index huge libraries of audio files (think: 100 GB+). If you must have your library indexed by your player software, try Amarok instead. I prefer audio software that does NOT index the files, that way there is no added logic, no overhead, etc. etc.
The simplicity of this player makes it awesome. Or at least more awesome than iTunes.