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

Elisa, better thank strawberry imo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Quod Libet is my current favorite. It gives me a lot of the features and layout I used in Foobar2000 in Windows and isn't gigantic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

mpdevil! It's got a nice GTK4/Adwaita UI, integrates with mpd, and gets out of your way.

https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Tori. Play music in your terminal. Built in rust and has great performance, and low trace on memory impact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Tidal app from AUR and MPD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I use Lollypop, I think it is pretty neat and pretty, it also recommends me an album of the day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

used to be a rhythmbox guy but I've been using audacious for a few years now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Lollypop and Deadbeef

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like G4Music, beautiful and straightforward

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Ncmcpp, MPV with scripts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Rhythmbox and Strawberry are the best, IMO. Rhythmbox has a lower impact on system resources but Strawberry is ideal for people with extensive music collections that you store offline like I do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I've always just used audacious. It's been good. That said, I recently installed plex amp and the more I used it, the more I like it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Rhythmbox. Works too well. I grew out of the Winamp/Audacious thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Mpd and Cantata. Deadbeef for playing from a directory or for conversation. I haven't found anything as good as cantata but I have to admit that I miss the monolithic and do everything of musicbee.

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

Amberol for its simplicity and esthetics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [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

mpg123 file.mp3 >> /dev/null &

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

I settled with Navidrome. It solves 2 use cases for me. Due to being web based it can be used by any PC or mobile device with access to my server. Additionally it supports subsonic which allows me to use a native android app (ultrasonic) and have music on the go. I don't use services like Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sonixd is a nice client for navidrome.

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

Thanks for the tip but I'm not sure why I would choose a desktop client over Navidrome itself. I usually have the browser open anyway. But maybe I'm missing something useful by using an actual app?

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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.

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