Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I’d ask here for suggestions first. Features I’m looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:
- Music folder can be anywhere, not only ~/Music
- In the list of songs by a given artist, I can sort by album year, but the tracks within each album stay in the correct order
- The player remembers where I left off the next time I open it
I’m using Rhythmbox and it’s great but unfortunately it doesn’t do #3 (if I missed some setting let me know please).
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Best options from the comments were Strawberry and Quod Libet. I think I’ll go with Quod Libet. Thanks all for the suggestions.
it’s not open source (it’s free though) and runs on linux through wine, but i like aimp.
I use Gapless. it’s pretty simple, but i mostly use it because it doesn’t look like absolute buns. i think it has what you want.
I’ve seen Strawberry mentioned a lot but I’m definitely not a fan of its looks haha. Gapless on the other hand looks pretty sleek. It’s a bit less intuitive perhaps but I might give it a shot
Someone mentioned Immich recently and it sounded like the cool kids are using it now, so maybe it’s worth looking into. I’m just a cavedweller and use command line mplayer, but given all the song metadata, the features you mention are pretty easy to do. Is every song necessarily on an album though?
I’m just a cavedweller
Did I hear rock’n’stone?
If you don’t rock n’ stone you ain’t goin home
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You can have a look at this list : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
I use Lollypop
AIMP Linux native version has been released, worth a try
There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.
I like Sayonara
Tauon has been great.
mpd + ncmpcpp
Amarok if you have a really large collection.
Elisa, from kde
If you like the command line aesthetic… Auditorium.
Or Kew
I use the SMplayer, it’s IMHO the best Media Player. Capable of streaming, even YouTube, all needed Codecs for practically any mediaformats, portable version.
https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer
