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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
I only listen to albums (I have zero playlists) and I just double click on an album in Strawberry to listen to it.