I've been using Audacious for years now; it's lightweight and also has no library management but I find I don't really need that. I just point it to any one album on my drive and it plays it.

I have each album saved as a separate 'playlist' which works well for me. I can see people being annoyed with how I have it set up, but I like it this way.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

it’s lightweight and also has no library management

That's the point for me for Audacious. I don't want to dig through my entire 30+ GB music folder, create a massive index or whatever, load all that shit to memory every time I open the fucking program, just to play one album.

"Oh I want this album"> Drag it in
"Oh I want this discography" > drag it in

The only problem is no multi column tab view, and no drag into empty space/designated zone to create a new playlist.

[–] qwank@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Audacious is the only one I've tried and works perfect for me. Load up my whole library and shuffle!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Audacious isn't perfect, but it's far better than the others that I tried. Had been using VLC forever in WIndows, but for whatever reason I kept running into issues that I couldn't resolve, so began a search for alternatives.

The only huge issue I have is when I add more songs to my music directory, I can't refresh the existing playlist. I have to delete and add the directory again. Don't do it a lot, so it's more inconvenience, and everything else works so much better than other alternatives did.