Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.

nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I’m still on Rhythmbox but at this point it’s a hassle to use something else because the metadata (album name, track id, etc) would break. I used to test Amberol, Lollypop, GNOME music 3 years ago and the metadata requires fixing.

    I also kind of care with the vanity number like play counts that is already recorded.

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Heh, clicked on that and saw my post at the top. That threw me for a second.

      As an update, I’ve since worked out how to get Navidrome working over Tailscale and an Nginx redirect from my VPS, so I now have Feishin installed on several computers, all drawing from the same Navidrome server at home.

      It’s pretty cool.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
      10·
      16 hours ago

      has it been updated since? i always enjoy talking music players

      edit: hey! found my old comment! also some folk i think are my dorks from my old college days maybe i hope? if they’re using the same usernames that’d be wild and fun. i wonder if i should break out my old cult username.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Agreed. It is my player of choice, though being it is pure Python, it uses a lot of resources for a music player. If I was tight on ram or using a slower CPU, I’d probably go with something leaner.

    • jcarax@beehaw.org
      6·
      15 hours ago

      I absolutely adore being able to click into and between genres and artists to get to albums and songs instantly. I want to ultimately move back to MPD, maybe Navidrome or Subsonic, but… I just love Quod Libet.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      14 hours ago

      i’ve always been a “organize everything at the file system level, and just play folders on demand in winamp” type guy… so when i couldn’t find a good winamp replacement after switching to linux, i ended up on quod libet and got used to organizing everything via tagging

      quod libet was a bit overwhelming at first and forced me to fix a lot of broken tags, but totally worth it.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    18 hours ago

    I like being exposed to new applications, but Elisa should’ve come up in the author’s search as kdePackages.elisa. Especially if you’re using KDE (where the Qt UI blends in well), it plainly meets all four of the criteria for inclusion. It’s such a major oversight given its popularity.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    18 hours ago

    I’ve been using Audacious for years now; it’s lightweight and also has no library management but I find I don’t really need that. I just point it to any one album on my drive and it plays it.

    I have each album saved as a separate ‘playlist’ which works well for me. I can see people being annoyed with how I have it set up, but I like it this way.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      it’s lightweight and also has no library management

      That’s the point for me for Audacious. I don’t want to dig through my entire 30+ GB music folder, create a massive index or whatever, load all that shit to memory every time I open the fucking program, just to play one album.

      “Oh I want this album”> Drag it in
      “Oh I want this discography” > drag it in

      The only problem is no multi column tab view, and no drag into empty space/designated zone to create a new playlist.

    • qwank@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 hours ago

      Audacious is the only one I’ve tried and works perfect for me. Load up my whole library and shuffle!

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Audacious isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than the others that I tried. Had been using VLC forever in WIndows, but for whatever reason I kept running into issues that I couldn’t resolve, so began a search for alternatives.

      The only huge issue I have is when I add more songs to my music directory, I can’t refresh the existing playlist. I have to delete and add the directory again. Don’t do it a lot, so it’s more inconvenience, and everything else works so much better than other alternatives did.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    I love MusicPod because it looks really nice and also combines local music with internet radio and podcasts, all in 1 app.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 hours ago

    i just want one i can use to sync [only 20 gBs] to my phone, keep my playlists updated, and listen to music. syncing to my phone wirelessly is a big plus, but i am old enough to have two boxes of cables.

      • boredsquirrel (he)@slrpnk.net
        3·
        14 hours ago

        But then you need a player on each platform, that works with m3u files

        Which is very few, and buggy.

        I use “Anrimians Simple Music Player” and Gapless/G4music, but songs are randomly disappearing from playlists. Also you need to usw default directories for the files.