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?
I agree with Strawberry. I'd love if Music Bee ever got a linux port or equivalent though
VLC because it works with everything and it doesn't try to organise my music collection for me.
Yeah why the fuck does everything have to organize your collections?
I use Darktable for editing pictures; I have my own organization system and do not need Darktable's help with that...why does Darktable feel the need to be my collection organizer, too? (Because other photo editing programs do it, that's why, and apparently some people do use that feature. I just don't need it.)
It just adds another layer of abstraction when my file manager works just fine. I think it started back in the iPod days, and now you have a generation of people who don't know how to manage files.
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.
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.
Tori. Play music in your terminal. Built in rust and has great performance, and low trace on memory impact.
Ncmcpp, MPV with scripts
strawberry-qt5 from AUR
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.
I use Lollypop, I think it is pretty neat and pretty, it also recommends me an album of the day
used to be a rhythmbox guy but I've been using audacious for a few years now
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!
Lollypop and Deadbeef
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
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?
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.
mpg123 file.mp3 >> /dev/null &
I used to use Strawberry, but my collection has grown enough that I can't just sync it everywhere, so I use Jellyfin now. I still use Strawberry's library management to move files into album artist/album/00 - track.ext though. Someday I'll dig into id3v2 to just write a script instead.
I use Sonixd as the frontend to my Navidrome server, and it's the bees knees.
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