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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?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (5 children)

First it was Amarok, then Clementine, and now it's Strawberry.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (9 children)

mpd + ncmpc

I am but a simple man. All my music is FLAC. It is arranged neatly in folders. I just want to select an album to play. I do not need album covers, playlists, search, streaming, tags, lyrics, analyzers, or scrobbling.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Agreed, with the exception of album covers. I like it all to look nice on my Hidizs when I'm on the go.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Audacious with the Winamp Classic skin. I'm old and it just feels right.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

The llamas ass continues to be whipped

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

dd if=/dev/urandom | aplay

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (6 children)

MPD + ncmpcpp, I hate both and I'm yet to find anything better.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I tried several and I very much appreciate Quod Libet

That said I'm interested in trying others' suggestions 👌

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

DeaDBeeF Player, I like lightweight and simple music players.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dies by open-source crowd linching

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's the one I use most, even though it sucks. I like that I can control it with my phone

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Tauon Music Box. I just point it at my Navidrome instance and hit shuffle usually.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that spotify sucks, they hate artists but love Joe Rogan. If you can't buy albums via bandcamp, Tidal offers quality and royalties far superior to Spottily. You can transfer your playlist in a few clicks and the price is almost identical (6 accounts for like $15/m).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use CMUS because I mainly work within terminal, without a mouse, and the controls feel like Vim

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Audacious with winamp skins, weening off windows' foobar2000 as an old favorite, jellyamp, amberol occasionally

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Audacious with a winamp skin. Nostalgic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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I love Strawberry!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I used Ubuntu, I liked Rhythmbox. I tried Clementine and I also liked it. Nowadays, I use Strawberry on MX Linux. It is similar to Clementine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Its similar to Clementine because it is a fork of Clementine. https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Differences_from_Clementine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Feishin, Audacious and Strawberry

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About 2 years ago, I moved my music to Jellyfin and have been using their media players on every platform I use (iOS, FireTV, Ubuntu, and Windows). At this point my music library is close to 200 GB, kinda hard to store that much on every device I own.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 👍

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Elisa for when i want my whole music library (it is a bit lacking in features tho), audacious w/ winamp classic skin (~vibes~) when im just playing files on my kde plasma box, and cmus on my qtile setup :3 also sicmuplayer on android cuz its the best

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Clementine. I sometimes use the Navidrome web UI too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Strawberry is also great if you are on windows as well. I support it in general, whether you use it on Windows or Linux. I've been using it whenever I want to listen to my music on my windows machine. Definitely gonna be using it with my next Linux machine (that isn't my absolute dogshit laptop). Before learning about Strawberry, I was just using Foobar2000 or VLC, which both just don't feel anywhere near as good to me than Strawberry.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I just use mpv

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Since I‘m only listen to music on Apple Music, I use Cider.

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