VLC?
That'll play subfolders, randomly and with normalisation... although I've not really used the normalisation much, just played with it a few times when yoochoob downloads were all mismatched.
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Use ffmpeg to fix your files first so you have fewer problems.
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That's what I use for similar purpose. Another possibility would be Fooyin or Deadbeef. Or foobar2000 on windows.
You have two problems (three if you count MP3's).
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Foobar2000 has a replay gain scanner system that can scan your files and add a replay gain tag to them which a music player can use to normalize the loudness.
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Audacious allows you to open a folder and play all files inside and has replay gain support.
mpv --no-video --shuffle dir/*.mp3
Or --profile audio-only and put them in a [audio-only] in the config, also the normalization options. You can also set respective keyboard shortcuts and add a mpris plugin.
Is what i use at least.
Will this do sub folders? I use haruna for videos and it only seems to do 1 folder at a time
Looks like just pointing it to the directory plays it recursive.
Will check this out tonight, thanks