The Linux desktop environment has made great strides in terms of usability in the past couple of years. In that light, I present Rhythmbox, an OpenSource music player ala iTunes for the Gnome desktop. Some of its features include an iTunes-style layout, search box, playlist management, podcast handling, and iPod integration. If you learned iTunes, using Rhythmbox will take only a slight adjustment, mostly involving a minimally different look-and-feel.

The main Rhythmbox window has four frames. The first, partially obscured in the picture to the left, displays different sources of audio media. Think Library, Playlists, or Podcasts. The two medium frames, titled Artist and Album, list all the artists and albums in your collection. Clicking on one of the entries filters the main list below … At least that will be the case soon: since this is the first time running Rhythmbox, it won’t know about any of your music files. Note the main list (large white square) is empty. To remedy this, tell Rhythmbox to import your music folders via the file menu item Music → Import Folder.

I have chosen to place my music in my home folder under Media/, so I would navigate the dialog box to ~/Media/Music/. Once you click Open, give Rhythmbox some time to index your library.

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