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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] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tauon Music Box available on Flathub. You look for albums by typing on your keyboard. Once you see the result which says "Artist", hit enter. It creates a playlist which shows all the albums of that playlist. The next time you want to listen to that artist, start typing and select "[Artist name] playlist". This concept differs from a traditional concept of playlists, because it doesn't actually create playlists you can use or export. I just like the UI, although the play controls are bit weird, they don't quite work the way you'd expect them to. It's a new project but worth keeping an eye on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't have one I love. Will have to review these comments!

Currently I use the Jellyfin web UI. Usage-wise it's decent, but I don't love using a browser for music.

Previously I was using mopidy + mopidy-Jellyfin + ncmpdcpp but it broke and I never got around to figuring out why. I didn't particularly enjoy ncmpdcpp. Great piece of software, don't get me wrong, just didn't like the TUI music client experience as thought I would.

Checking out GUI based mpd client ecosystem seems like the next logical step.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Mpd has always served me well. I use ncccmmmmppp (however its spelled) to manage playlists and such. For album artwork I run sxiv pointed at file in /tmp/. I forget how that part works, actually. I have a grid layout on a second monitor, so I just square up the mpd client and sxiv. Doesn't look too bad.

Semi-related, but as a project I ripped out the pressure/impact pads of an old midi keyboard for use as prev/(pause/unpause)/next buttons, so if the song sucks I can literally punch my desk to skip it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

ncccmmmmppp (however its spelled)

Thanks fish shell for suggesting me the right name with just “nc” ’cause I can’t remember it either

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I use Sonixd as the frontend to my Navidrome server, and it's the bees knees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Tauon Music Box is minimalist and is also probably the best open source Spotify player.

Sometimes I'll just run Spotifyd and control it with my phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Logitech Media Server, followed by strawberry, quod libet, rhythmbox

Quod libet starts to act funny with 50,000 flac collections. Rhythmbox too. LMS is still chugging at 100k and I can get it on any room in the house, across 2 clients on computers, 2 on raspberry pi and my android phone. If I want to listen to 24/96+, Strawberry can handle it all although I haven't warmed up to the interface. Volumio sucks, it's way too slow.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I wish MediMonkey was on Linux...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is there winamp for linux?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
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Ncmcpp, MPV with scripts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

i use foobar because i can't live without dolby headphone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

navidrome + ultrasonic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Feishin for me and occasionally strawberry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I really like Elisa.

I mostly use it to listen to music that's not in my Jellyfin library yet but it does that beautifully.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Mostly CMUS. Clementine on rare occasions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Schism Tracker

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Couldn't find any that works for me. At the moment I just play my music in mpv from terminal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I use apple music. On linux I use Ciderwhich is amazing. Super clean interface and lots of nobs to turn in order to make everything sound and behave the way I like. If you like apple music or are looking for a streaming solution cider is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Considering that I'm using Emby (selfhost), it's able to manage my music collection too and I can play the music from the web player exposed by it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Dolphin + mpv for me so I can see the album covers and metadata and see whats available, if I have a specific song in mind, then ill just use the terminal and mpv.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

mpd+mpdevil

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I just really love mplayer

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