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I'm still on Rhythmbox but at this point it's a hassle to use something else because the metadata (album name, track id, etc) would break. I used to test Amberol, Lollypop, GNOME music 3 years ago and the metadata requires fixing.
I also kind of care with the vanity number like play counts that is already recorded.
This doesn't seem exhaustive enough to be titled "the state of Linux music players."
I agree, it's missing so many.
This was posted here, and criticized, two months ago:
Heh, clicked on that and saw my post at the top. That threw me for a second.
As an update, I've since worked out how to get Navidrome working over Tailscale and an Nginx redirect from my VPS, so I now have Feishin installed on several computers, all drawing from the same Navidrome server at home.
It's pretty cool.
has it been updated since? i always enjoy talking music players
edit: hey! found my old comment! also some folk i think are my dorks from my old college days maybe i hope? if they're using the same usernames that'd be wild and fun. i wonder if i should break out my old cult username.
That screenshot of Strawberry in the blog post really makes it look bad.
Here's a better one
I just use Subsonic and stream music from my server sitting literally a foot away
I like being exposed to new applications, but Elisa should've come up in the author's search as kdePackages.elisa. Especially if you're using KDE (where the Qt UI blends in well), it plainly meets all four of the criteria for inclusion. It's such a major oversight given its popularity.
I only need fooyin
Quodlibet is the one with all the features.
Agreed. It is my player of choice, though being it is pure Python, it uses a lot of resources for a music player. If I was tight on ram or using a slower CPU, I'd probably go with something leaner.
I absolutely adore being able to click into and between genres and artists to get to albums and songs instantly. I want to ultimately move back to MPD, maybe Navidrome or Subsonic, but... I just love Quod Libet.
I love that it has proper search queries: https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/searching.html
Do other players have this as well?
i've always been a "organize everything at the file system level, and just play folders on demand in winamp" type guy... so when i couldn't find a good winamp replacement after switching to linux, i ended up on quod libet and got used to organizing everything via tagging
quod libet was a bit overwhelming at first and forced me to fix a lot of broken tags, but totally worth it.
I love MusicPod because it looks really nice and also combines local music with internet radio and podcasts, all in 1 app.
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.
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.
Audacious is the only one I've tried and works perfect for me. Load up my whole library and shuffle!
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.
Command line mplayer seems fine to me. I have it aliased to "m" for convenience. Playlists work great (just make a shell script to play the songs you want). Need help getting to sleep? Shell script that sets the volume to barely audible, then plays some long instrumental audios. And so on.
As all my music is stored on my jellyfin, and since I like the GNOME-isms, I can't recommend Gelly enough.
Interesting! Gapless is the only modern one and it is fine-ish
Still got nothing on Moonshell 2
i just want one i can use to sync [only 20 gBs] to my phone, keep my playlists updated, and listen to music. syncing to my phone wirelessly is a big plus, but i am old enough to have two boxes of cables.
I'd recommend using something like Navidrome instead of manually syncing the files.
You can jist use Syncthing for syncing.
But then you need a player on each platform, that works with m3u files
Which is very few, and buggy.
I use "Anrimians Simple Music Player" and Gapless/G4music, but songs are randomly disappearing from playlists. Also you need to usw default directories for the files.
No ncmpcpp?
probably due to the criteria listed in the post.
