Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I'd ask here for suggestions first. Features I'm looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:

Music folder can be anywhere, not only ~/Music
In the list of songs by a given artist, I can sort by album year, but the tracks within each album stay in the correct order
The player remembers where I left off the next time I open it

I'm using Rhythmbox and it's great but unfortunately it doesn't do #3 (if I missed some setting let me know please).

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Best options from the comments were Strawberry and Quod Libet. I think I'll go with Quod Libet. Thanks all for the suggestions.

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Out of all the music players I've tried on Linux, Clementine variants like Strawberry are the best ones for my needs. I'm not entirely sure of #2, but otherwise yeah, it does all that and more.

Audacious is also a decent low resource player.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm pretty sure if your metadata is correct you can enable the album year collumn and when applying a new sorting, it doesn't touch the previous one.

So for example if you sort alphabetically first, then album year, it would be "grouped" by album year and inside each group it would be alphabetical. I say group because it could be that two albums released in the same year.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Audacious is also cool if you want to go "retro" and use old winamp skins.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Definitely agree - I usually use cmus because it follows my system theme as part of the terminal and kind of fits in anywhere, but for graphical players having options for skins is a must for me.