Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
  • Twig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    7 minutes ago

    I need something similar to gmpc, that’s actually being developed

  • Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I’ll have to try some of these later. I’m just manually opening folders in MPV as that’s what I did with VLC on Windows lol

  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    “The state of Linux music players” but no mention of Audacious or Deadbeef? For shame.

    • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Deadbeef comes the closest to what I want in a music player. If I could get rid of the playlist display at the bottom and edit tags, it would be perfect.

    • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      I had to dig to find Deadbeef, it is not mentioned in a lot of articles or music player round ups, I’m quite happy with it personally, although my needs are small, I have a big local library but it’s already mostly organized and tagged, so I just needed something to play from directories which was quite hard to find actually, everything uses playlists which I don’t want.

      • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, same. It’s the closest thing I’ve found to foobar2000 on Linux, in many ways.

        • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          It does remind me a lot of foobar, the interface builder could use a little work certainly it’s a little tricky, but it works! I accidentally deleted the whole layout at first and had to rebuild it because I deleted the master container haha. It was a learning experience anyways, and now it’s working great and looking how I want :)

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I’ve used VLC in WIndows forever, but it started giving me glitchy behavior in Ubuntu. Tried to upgrade to see if it was an old version/Snap thing, got frustrated with it not working. So I went through all the lists of Linux players, tried most of them. I like Audacious. It’s not perfect, but it works well, and I can deal with some of the minor things that are more preferences than problems. That’s all I wanted.

  • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Feishin, SuperSonic, cmus, and kew are the only ones I really like with kew being my personal favourite.

    I don’t need much from my music player as I just like to hit shuffle on all my songs (6000+) and kew just does that.

    I’ve also started thinking about doing streaming music again as I currently have a month trial with Qobuz and I really like it. Thankfully lastnight I was FINALLY able to find a linux Qobuz player, QBZ, that works very well as I’m not a fan of the Qobuz webplayer.

  • Manu@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I use Lollypop and I love it. I would like it to have more information about the track being played. Which audio player do you recommend for Gnome that is in GTK4? Thanks

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Lollypop is actually a GTK3 app (it looks pretty dated on my mostly GKT4 GNOME setup) and it’s imo still the best GNOME music app. I’m honestly suprised they say Lollypop’s UX sucks but then praise RecordBox’s because I can’t stand RecordBox (why make me double click to play a song* and don’t get me started on the Artist+Album view). Also surprised Gapless didn’t get mentioned here, I think this is actually pretty decent though its queue system could use work.

    *The dev says this choice is so you can select songs and instead you should use the little play button next on the right side of all playable entries.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    201·
    10 hours ago

    This is weirdly timely, considering I installed Feishin last week in my never-ending quest to find a music player that’s as familiar and useful to me as iTunes.

    Initially I was put off at having to also install Navidrome just to be able to listen to the music I alredy have available to me, but ultimately it’s ok. And yeah, Feishin is nice. Perhaps a little ‘busy’, but compared to Strawberry it’s minimal, stripped down application. I know everyone seems to love Strawberry, but I hate it. I shouldn’t have to make a playlist in order to be able to listen to an album. Just let me press play on the sodding album!

    Anyway, yeah +1 for Feishin here.

    • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      18 minutes ago

      I stopped using iTunes around 2012 and I expect its design has changed quite a bit, since then; Banshee was a perfect capture of it, then, and I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement for Banshee since development halted on it.

      Granted, the most important qualities, for me, is for the player to allow tagging within the app. and to rename and organize the files by their tags automatically once those tags have been modified and every Linux developer seems to hate that so my unique requirements seem to largely drive my impediment.

    • starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev
      4·
      6 hours ago

      For iTunes based music player there is also rhythmbox which is standalone (no subsonic server needed). It’s what i used until i ultimately switched to navidrome + supersonic. I’ll check out feishin since that didn’t come up in my initial search last year. Ive liked supersonic though. It has a decent, simple UI and you can play albums by clicking on them

  • 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    11 hours ago

    For my mpd + ncmpcpp folks I would highly recommend RMPC. It’s more of a modern take on TUI players (and actually supports displaying album covers!)

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    I feel stuck between players that feel old and aged like Strawberry, and yet more electron apps like feishin. I’ve been using Supersonic, but I’d like to see more variety

      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        .cue files are there to inform your player about where songs/chapters start in a record. It’s mostly for situation where you have ripped CDs as singular files and not tracks. It’s a frequent occurence in lossless torrents (.flac, .alac, .wav, audiocd territory) and the reasoning behind that may be that it keeps the most exact copy of a CD without any user-side interference, and .cue files are text files laying alongside your cd rip (and probably a log of ripping). Such interference may also be seen as unwanted in some cases, e.g. when the record is mastered that way one track seemlessly flows into another, so any way to cut between them is arguable.

  • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org
    4·
    9 hours ago

    What a nice article. I use Kodi as my music player, or rather my multimedia center. My PC is hooked up to a 7.1 surround amplifier and my TV and I basically run Kodi all day.

    Perhaps it would be more power efficient to use something else if I’m only playing music, though. I used to use MPD.