For Windows users, Media player is the default music/video player that come with the OS. What is the equivalent for Linux?

I think there is no one application for viewing/managing multimedia files on Linux. The UNIX way of things is that one application/tool do only one thing and well.....

Anyhow, the default audio player that come with Fedora Core 6 is Rhythmbox. It's basically a clone of iTune for Linux. It use GStreamer as the back-end to handle audio.



Rhythmbox has all the basic function to manage music on your computer. It allow user to listen, search, sort music collection; It supports playlist and play queue; It is able to access Internet radio station (aka shoutcast); It can download and manage podcast feeds. Other major functions included a plugin interface, music streaming to share your music, and import from CD.

One good thing (or maybe bad thing) about Rhythmbox is that there is not a lot of parameters to configure, which prevent from confusing users. Meanwhile, I use Rhythmbox to monitor and download podcast, so no need to use PodNova, get_enclosure, or alike.

One thing I wish Rhythmbox to have is implementation/support of various effects and vitualization plugins like those for xmms (a winamp like player).

Other audio players seem interesting for Linux are XMMS2 , BMPx and Democracy (for video).