Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It's also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I'm curious what other people are using these days. What's your favorite player?
Just mpv for me. Simplest and most versatile option
Rhythmbox
Quod Libet is my current favorite. It gives me a lot of the features and layout I used in Foobar2000 in Windows and isn't gigantic.
strawberry-qt5 from AUR
I settled with Navidrome. It solves 2 use cases for me. Due to being web based it can be used by any PC or mobile device with access to my server. Additionally it supports subsonic which allows me to use a native android app (ultrasonic) and have music on the go. I don't use services like Spotify.
Sonixd is a nice client for navidrome.
Thanks for the tip but I'm not sure why I would choose a desktop client over Navidrome itself. I usually have the browser open anyway. But maybe I'm missing something useful by using an actual app?
I've always just used audacious. It's been good. That said, I recently installed plex amp and the more I used it, the more I like it!
I use Lollypop, I think it is pretty neat and pretty, it also recommends me an album of the day
Lollypop and Deadbeef
Mpd and Cantata. Deadbeef for playing from a directory or for conversation. I haven't found anything as good as cantata but I have to admit that I miss the monolithic and do everything of musicbee.
mpdevil! It's got a nice GTK4/Adwaita UI, integrates with mpd, and gets out of your way.
Tidal app from AUR and MPD.
Tauon Music Box is minimalist and is also probably the best open source Spotify player.
Sometimes I'll just run Spotifyd and control it with my phone.
Ncmcpp, MPV with scripts
Tori. Play music in your terminal. Built in rust and has great performance, and low trace on memory impact.
Foobar2000 has been here for YEAAAARS, and I don't think there is a good enough equivalent for linux, and by that I mean playlist tabs, global shortcuts, etc
used to be a rhythmbox guy but I've been using audacious for a few years now
Rhythmbox and Strawberry are the best, IMO. Rhythmbox has a lower impact on system resources but Strawberry is ideal for people with extensive music collections that you store offline like I do.
mpg123 file.mp3 >> /dev/null &
Tauon Music Box available on Flathub. You look for albums by typing on your keyboard. Once you see the result which says "Artist", hit enter. It creates a playlist which shows all the albums of that playlist. The next time you want to listen to that artist, start typing and select "[Artist name] playlist". This concept differs from a traditional concept of playlists, because it doesn't actually create playlists you can use or export. I just like the UI, although the play controls are bit weird, they don't quite work the way you'd expect them to. It's a new project but worth keeping an eye on.
I use Sonixd as the frontend to my Navidrome server, and it's the bees knees.
On Android its NewPipe. No ads, free, I can create playlists, and I dont have to store anything local.
navidrome + ultrasonic
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