Lately I've been using amarok as a music player and I was quite happy with it. It all started as one day I realized that the amarok icon looked like 1 pixel size at the gnome notification area. I was trying to find a solution to that problem. Then in one forum I saw someone mentioning a player called Listen.

As a person who is eager to test new stuff, I wanted to give it a try. After all, it would be nice to have a similar program as amarok, with gnome integration. Listen is fully written in GTK, thus gnome look and feel is there.

After using extensively for the last few weeks, I realized that Listen is pretty powerful, somewhat "lightweight", and can perform many things that amarok can. (and more) It has a simpler interface than amarok, and less buttons to click. CDburner, mp3 player integration, podcast (i hate this word...) management, interface to shoutcast internet radio, lyrics, wikipedia searches, last.fm assisted dynamic playlists, etc....

Here are some screenshots. (Click to zoom!)