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Add to SafariWhen comparing Exaile vs qmmp, the Slant community recommends Exaile for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Exaile is ranked 8th while qmmp is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Exaile is:
Exaile comes pre-loaded with a lot of plugins so users can customize the application how they see fit.
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Pros
Pro A lot of built-in plugins
Exaile comes pre-loaded with a lot of plugins so users can customize the application how they see fit.
Pro Can handle large libraries
Exaile utilizes a SQLite database to store information. As such, it can handle large music libraries.
Pro Smart Playlists
Has the ability to configure dynamic playlists based on various criteria.
Pro Trimmed down interface
Exaile excels for being a simple-to-use music player that is not filled with a lot of guff.
Pro Equalizer
Exaile has a built-in equalizer.
Pro Offers some skinning options
Qmmp allows the user to drastically change its look via skins. It can use Winamp and Xmms skins, as well as a list of 12 skins made specifically for qmmp that can be found here.
Pro Small single-window interface
Unlike more popular players that draw a huge window taking up the entire screen, with tons of knobs and menus popping out in new windows, qmmp gives you a single tiny window (that looks pretty much the same as Winamp used to look) with the basic controls and the playlist. The rest is available through a menu.
Pro Lightweight and supports almost all formats
Pro Plugin based
You can extend it with plugins.
Pro Qt-App
No matter what OS or desktop you use Qmmp will integrate well
Pro Clean and simple interface
Pro Depends on libaries
It depends on libaries instead of big fat toolkits like gstreamer.
Pro integrated file browser
Pro Supports cue sheets
Cons
Con Can't handle CUE files
Con Interface is not particularly intuitive
