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?
First it was Amarok, then Clementine, and now it’s Strawberry.
I use Clementine because it lets me rate my songs. Does Strawberry do that? If it does I’ll give it a try.
CMUS! I’m surprised more people aren’t using this. It’s very cool, ultra lightweight, and easy to use. Maybe I just like stuff that runs in the console.
cmus is great, it checks all my boxes, and is much easier to work with than mpd imo. The only downside for me is that I can’t see any of the cover art :(
That is so true. I never thought about that.
Audacious with the Winamp Classic skin. I’m old and it just feels right.
The llamas ass continues to be whipped
I tried several and I very much appreciate Quod Libet
That said I’m interested in trying others’ suggestions 👌
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As a bonus: also runs on my phone.
yes, VLC for gui, cmus for cli.
I don’t really love any that I’ve tried so far, but I dislike Audacious the least. FLAC, Musepack, and ReplayGain support are requirements for my library.
The last one I loved was foobar2000 on Windows, which supplanted Winamp. Linux UIs mostly feel a bit clunky by comparison. When the window has focus I like to have spacebar for pause/play, arrows up/down for primary gain, and arrows left/right for seek.
YES, foobar2000!
I also gravitated towards Audacious, but I foobar2000 was 10/10. Might consider running it through Wine, since Audacious is not quite there unfortunately
Tauon Music Box. I just point it at my Navidrome instance and hit shuffle usually.
I’ve been using Tauon for years now and I still love it.
I use this with my Jellyfin server, but holy shit has it been wonky. I hit shuffle on my entire library and there’s albums it’s never even played and other with more plays than other albums combined.
Are you sure it’s a Tauon issue and not a Jellyfin issue? I can’t say I’ve had it mis-report play counts for me but I use it with Navidrome, not Jellyfin - maybe Jellyfin doesn’t follow the Airsonic API as strictly or something?
Not sure. I’ve got an issue up on the git after I randomly had 30 plays on one song. New album that had been downloaded too.
This is the wonkiest application though. Feels like early Winamp days again.
VLC
Rhythmbox. It was pre-installed on Ubuntu back when I was on Ubuntu, and I kinda just got used to it. Strawberry looks really cool though, I may have to give it a try
Rhythmbox is great and works well for editing tags for my 15,000 track library. I went to Lollypop for a while trying to get some more features but I ended up back at Rhythmbox.
I use CMUS because I mainly work within terminal, without a mouse, and the controls feel like Vim
Audacious
With the original Winamp skin.
I just have my music collection in Playlist and use Audacious to play them. All the music in the Playlist are saved in relative format so I can just copy the folders and keep the same Playlists
I ended up writing a perl script to generate a .m3u from a root music directory that shuffles all the subdirs so I can listen to full albums in random order instead of just tracks.
I did something similar except I wrote a C# program and used AvaloniaUI to build a cross-platform GUI. It was a project to learn C#. I have to make some updates to that now that I think about it…
mpd
Clementine
Development on Clementine has slowed down considerably compared to Strawberry
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That’s kind of the point.
Clementine originally forked from Amarok 1.4 because Amarok 2.0 changed too much.
I was using Clementine for a long time and switched to Strawberry about a year ago. Since they’re related, migrating libraries from one to the other was also possible.
Strawberry.
Our desktops are almost identical, lol.
Lollypop. Simple interface that shows me album art. I can’t always remember band names or artist names but I know what the damn album cover looks like 👍