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The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)
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nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players

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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months 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.

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