Music player

Various programs exist to play music under Linux: audio CDs, MP3 files or Ogg Vorbis audio. The most well-known is XMMS, a WinAmp-alike music player.

GUI/X

 * XMMS -- Media player modeled after Winamp
 * RhythmBox -- A music player and manager for the GNOME desktop
 * Listen -- A music library manager program for the GNOME desktop, similar to Amarok
 * JuK -- an audio jukebox that supports collections of files for KDE
 * amaroK -- an new audio player/jukebox for KDE with better usability and can use the GStreamer backend
 * grip -- can be used for playing and ripping audio CDs with ease
 * GQmpeg -- GTK1 based player
 * Noatun - A KDE music player, although not as elaborate as some of the others
 * xfmedia - xfce's xine based music player
 * RealPlayer - Proprietary software from Real Networks, commonly used for streaming audio and video
 * HelixPlayer - Open-source alternative to RealPlayer that also uses open formats
 * MPD - Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients interact with MPD over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation; to use MPD, you need to install an MPD client

Console/text-based

 * cmus -- ncurses based music player
 * mpg123 -- Command line MP3 player
 * mpg321 -- free mpg123 clone
 * ogg123 -- Ogg vorbis command line player