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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello guys,
I'm looking for a music player, I have checked some wikis but none of those give me their personal opinion of the music players thus I would like to know your experience. Currently I am using musikcube as I just though it would look since since it can use your terminal colorscheme and I have also used Cue.
Anyway, what music player would you recommend for someone who has thousands of songs and wishes to create playlists seamlessly. Thanks in advance

Edit: Gave most of your recommendations a fair shot. In the end I decided to go for MPD + Ymuse since it was exactly what I needed plus Ymuse is gtk so its automatically themed for me. Thank You All Guys!
fair to say I was Ymused....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You might want to have a look at https://beets.io

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it could be useful for managing huge libraries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah that's what it's for. And generating playlists and what not. Won't solve you player question per say, but it sounds like what you're looking for still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I use cmus, though I've been looking around for alternatives also, just to see if there's something better for me. My main issue with cmus is having to build playlists within it, instead of using m3u files. This means I have to back up both my regular playlists I use on my phone, and my cmus playlists. But I haven't really found anything as easy to use and intuitive as cmus so far. I used to like deadbeef but I dropped it because it wasn't available everywhere and I wasn't the biggest fan of its interface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Biggest gripe with cmus are are the hotkeys, its totally unintuitive and frustrating if you don't use it daily and everywhere. Additional small gripe: no album covers, but thats with most terminal players.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can change them. It's what I did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sane defaults, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For some reason I use YouTube music most of the time.

Vlc would be my choice for local. And maybe a jellyfin for my server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I use Plexamp on my phone, but I use ncmpcpp and mpd on my towers and laptop. I think both players suite my purposes well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I tried quite a few. ncmpcpp was cool, but I settled on using plexamp since I can use it on phone and desktop. I've been super happy with it, and they made it free a while back. So now my friends use it too and we can share our Plex music libraries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've tried a few and settled on Audacious.

It's pretty basic overall but it allows you to use original Winamp skins which I love!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've been using Dopamine for years. Nothing ever got even close to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Better search, I remember someone asking the same question recently. If I remember correctly, the general consensus was mpv + different frontends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

YouTube music in Firefox in a special workspace

I'd love a CLI on it but there don't seem to be any good enough to beat the UX

Can be themed with Stylus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Nothing seems to sway me from audacious. Does what it needs to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I just open my music in mpv lol. Used to use MOC, but I couldn't get it to work with multimedia keys, so I ditched it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I started using fooyin recently, and it's good enough to have replaced running foobar2000 in WINE for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the appeal, I understand fb2k was the shit back in the days. But nowadays I want a music player with elegant defaults instead of customization?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Different strokes. If I preferred using software that was just good enough out of the box over something I can customize to my exact liking then I probably wouldn't be using Linux in the first place, or at least not the way I do in general.

Beyond that, having it be customizable means other people can change it to their liking and share that configuration, and maybe I'd experiment with it and find something I didn't even know I wanted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That sounds like an excuse to waste lifetime. A good UI should be what makes or breaks an audio player. If I have to enter text queries to play songs this might work after I configured a script which handles all the shit I want to do OR the UI is in itself easy to use so I don't need to go to that length.

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