Another one for Audacious, especially with the Winamp themes. :-)
I also use mpv a lot when I need something from the terminal inside Tmux.
I use Lollypop
I use Gapless. it's pretty simple, but i mostly use it because it doesn't look like absolute buns. i think it has what you want.
I've seen Strawberry mentioned a lot but I'm definitely not a fan of its looks haha. Gapless on the other hand looks pretty sleek. It's a bit less intuitive perhaps but I might give it a shot
mpd + ncmpcpp
AIMP Linux native version has been released, worth a try
Tauon has been great.
I've been using Strawberry for my local music for a bit, might not be the most modern looking, but I'd say it's decent. You can set folders to be scanned, and if you double click an artist's folder in the "collection" menu it'll add all their songs to the queue in whatever order you're sorting by. It'll at least remember the last played song, so just pressing play should start that song assuming you didn't clear the queue. Doesn't seem to remember how far into the song you were before closing it if that's what you're after though.
Yeah I like Strawberry too. It's not flashy looking but it does everything I need.
Seconding strawberry 🍓
Seems promising, thanks! I don't care about song position, just that it remembers which song.
Elisa, from kde
music player demon runs in the background and plays music (always remembers its position, and if you reboot while playing music it'll continue playing automatically when the system is up again), and can be controlled by various clients like Cantata, Euphonica or Plattenalbum (they should all do 2.) and many others. It can output network streams, clients can connect over the network (control the music on your PC from your phone), utility demons to feed your play queue with similar or random songs…
Very versatile, though setup is a bit more complicated than with one simple program.
cantata is no longer maintained AFAIK, but as mentioned there are other clients such as ario, which on arch/artix it is build on gtk3, not gtk2
strawberry can do all iirc
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.
Audacious is also cool if you want to go "retro" and use old winamp skins.
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. Used to like all the options for this on AIMP when I used to use Windows.
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.
There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.
Quod Libet can do 1 and 3 for sure, I think it can do #2 but I'm not positive. I don't have a music collection with very many albums that have multiple tracks. You can pick and choose which metadata columns show up for your library and sort by whatever you want, including creating your own but that's outside my expertise. It can do bulk renaming too.
I was using Clementine for awhile, then because of a lack of updates and some other minor issues, I switched to Strawberry which is a fork of Clementine. It added some neat features but lost a few too. After using a dozen or so different players, I found Quod Libet just works like I want it to.
The way I listen to music is to dump all my files into a single folder called "music", then do shuffle, repeat all. I was in the process of moving my files to a new storage and moved the folder around a few times. Just had to update the library with a scan, took like 10 seconds.
I also have it set up to automatically resume playing from where it left off. One of the options is then queue autosave interval, which does the resume from where you left off. It's enabled by default I believe. You can set it to autosave every second if you want but to use less system resources, I stick with the default of 60 and I think it saves on shutdown/restart too. I've never noticed it NOT resume from where I left off.
It has a plugin system to add features but otherwise it starts off very bare bones. You add plugins to basically build your own player the way you want it. That means it can be a bit of work to initially setup. While that sounds like a pain, the amount of time I've spent in Quod Libet's settings is a tiny fraction of the amount of time I spent messing with Clementine and Strawberry's options, as well as other players. It's probably the music player I've seen the GUI for the least in my entire life, as a ratio to how much music I've listened to with it.
Speaking of Quod Libet, Ex Falso from them is still the best way to fix meta data on music that I have found - so very very handy.
Thanks for this tip also, will check it out
Quod Libet looks great, thanks! Probably going to go with this one. Looks pretty similar to Rhythmbox and also does #3 from my list
Amarok if you have a really large collection.
Pretty sure Strawberry does everything you are looking for.
re: #1 I kind of had the same issue but with multiple music folders, most of the default music apps only let you use one folder. Strawberry lets you add as many music folders as you like, I've been happy with it.
On Windows I used to use foobar2000 which was great, and in theory I could get it running under Linux, but I'd rather just use something coded for Linux compatibility from the start.
Man I do miss foobar2000, it was a perfect all-in-one package that did things I need multiple Linux programs for. Great piece of software. However, in the spirit of this community, it's not Open Source.
Last I tried, foobar worked well under Wine
There is an Linux compatible open source player being developed called fooyin (https://fooyin.org/) heavily inspired by foobar2000. When I tried it out a few months back it was still a bit rough for day-to-day use but it could eventually become a good alternative for people that miss the foobar2000 style player.
it's not open source (it's free though) and runs on linux through wine, but i like aimp.
I like Sayonara
What about Navidrome as a server and Feishin as the client.
Or my second backup system mod + rmpc (terminal music player with artwork support)
I'm currently using Strawberry. Before that Deadbeef (was perfectly happy with Deadbeaf, just tried something different). MPD with Cantata was on the cards but not got to it yet.
I’ve been happy with Sayonara but don’t know if it can do #2
DeaDBeeF can probably do all three.
Someone mentioned Immich recently and it sounded like the cool kids are using it now, so maybe it's worth looking into. I'm just a cavedweller and use command line mplayer, but given all the song metadata, the features you mention are pretty easy to do. Is every song necessarily on an album though?
VLC?????
cmus.
I know it satisfies 1, mostly sure it satisfies 2, and looks like 3 was implemented somewhat recently
https://github.com/cmus/cmus/pull/1325
yep, just tested and resume works.
I use the SMplayer, it's IMHO the best Media Player. Capable of streaming, even YouTube, all needed Codecs for practically any mediaformats, portable version.
https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer
Rytgmbox does not do your feature number 3, my personal workaround is to, before closing the app, add the current song to the play queue, so it will be picked up next time you start the application.
Swing music player is web based
Harmony music is cross-platform
Personally i like swing, but i keep switching between these two
air sonic
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