Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.

nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players

    • jcarax@beehaw.org
      6·
      15 days ago

      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.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      15 days ago

      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.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    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.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    15 days ago

    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.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      5·
      15 days ago

      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.

    • qwank@lemmy.world
      5·
      15 days ago

      Audacious is the only one I’ve tried and works perfect for me. Load up my whole library and shuffle!

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 days ago

      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.

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    Mpd+ncmpcpp for almost 15 years here. Album art would be nice but I don’t look at my music player long enough to care that much. Its always thrown on a far away workspace.

    Yes I tried Kew and Rmpc. Hell I cloned Rmpc and rewrote it from scratch to try and learn Rust. They’re both neat projects but not enough for me to switch. Especially Kew. That one requires some reprogramming of the brain. I’m good right now.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
    3·
    15 days ago

    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.

      • boredsquirrel (he)@slrpnk.net
        3·
        15 days ago

        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.

  • scttgard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    I have been using JRiver Media Center for over 20 years, started on Windows and they have a perfect Linux and Mac versions. More options and features than I would ever use. It just works, best player I have ever used.

    jriver.com

    • glibg@lemmy.ca
      3·
      14 days ago

      This looks interesting, I will give it a try one of these days.

      My gold standard for audio players is MusicBee because I LOVE the album art view, where if you click on an album it “folds open” the songs without taking you away from the album art view. I couldn’t find a Linux player with a comparable feature, and I tried a bunch of them. I wish I wasn’t so particular about my music player but it seems everyone is, hence the many different software.

  • anorangecatnamedbillie@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 days ago

    I’ve been using Elisa music player, a kde app, for a while now. It’s relatively simple to use, required no setup and the user experience is pleasant.

    I use it to manage my library of a couple thousand songs in lossless formats (about 100GB worth) with no performance issues.

    I get music from ripping old CDs or from Qobuz, that lets you download DRM free music after purchasing and album or a subscription