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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] 8 points 10 months ago

Clementine. I sometimes use the Navidrome web UI too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

mpd + ncmpcpp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For the most part I use ncmpcpp with mpd, but sometimes whenever I just want to listen to a single file I use mpv --no-video instead....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I stream from my Navidrome server, Supersonic is great.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

MPD + Cantata
For the most part I just lump all my music into one playlist regardless of album or genre, but day to day I also use several different computers, and I find MPD to be the best for syncing configurations across all of them. Cantata also allows me to see album artwork and track information really easily and has good touchscreen support compared to terminal-based MPD clients.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nothing honestly. Couldn't find a music player that doesn't look like a file manager, has good search and queue features and doesn't make strong assumptions about how music is organized. Tried to run Musicolet through waydroid but it doesn't support Nvidia gpus

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Strawberry.

Our desktops are almost identical, lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

VLC because it works with everything and it doesn't try to organise my music collection for me.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Strawberry [clementine fork]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No one really. I've tried a bunch but never found one that felt just right. Clementine is the one that gets the closest.

I really wish MusicBee had a Linux port, it's the only thing I miss from Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you get dark mode in Strawberry under KDE? I remember trying to follow some guides and not having much luck. But that was a long time ago at this point. Does this "just work" now?

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

Should just work with the defaults but check these settings:

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rythmbox. Syncs to my iPod Classic.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I simply play music using mpv.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

My distro came with Rhythmbox and I've pretty much just stuck with it. It does podcasts and radio which I appreciate and I can also edit track metadata in it. For playing music from my file browser I use MPV because it's fast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

mpd + Emacs frontend. There are dozens of us

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

lightweight media server Super fast indexing. Smooth web client. Also supports the subsonic api. I've been using the web client locally for some years now. I can also access my library on the go with substreamer on Android which is great. https://github.com/epoupon/lms

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Probably a tie between audacious, strawberry, and qmmp

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Elisa, better thank strawberry imo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Strawberry if I had to have something visual with buttons.

cmus right now because it loads my rather large library in a split second. mpd works great as well.

More important than the player for me is sorting, though. Beets is my saviour. I could never sort the 5 or 6 albums I get by hand and tag them by hand.

I used to like deadbeef as well, quod libet is great. There really is something for everyone when it comes to something for music. If only there were as many great email clients.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

VLC when I'm listening to local files, ncspot for Spotify.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm a fan of cmus. simple and easy.

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

if I'm using gui on my laptop, then amberol

if I'm using my headless server, then you can't get anything better than mpd

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Going to ask here, anyone know a music player that is similar to AIMP? It has no native support, unfortunately.

https://www.aimp.ru/?do=download&os=linux

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Amarok 1.4 from TDE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Strawberry+1

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I agree with Strawberry. I'd love if Music Bee ever got a linux port or equivalent though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

strawberry-qt5 from AUR

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