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?

  • Mx. Nichole@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    I have been bouncing between CLI/GUI and several there of. On the CLI side I’m flipping back and forth between cmus and musikcube. I prefer cmus as it seems faster and has vim key motions an commands, but I like the TUI of musikcube better, its just got soo much extra stuff I don’t use. I’d love to find a rust rewrite of it that trimmed out the web-server and most of the plugins as I never use them (and yes all you suckless heads I know, I could edit source and rebuild it but… Ain’t nobody got time for that).

    Another point for these is being able to detach them, both work fine in detached sessions so I can start an album or playlist and just say that’s it, back to work. I use Zellij but I imagine using tmux or whatever would work just as well.

    Now as for graphical apps I tend to use Amberol or Rhythmbox depending on what I’m doing, honestly both go fairly unused most the time. But I like having options, Amberol is more geared towards playlist style music so mixtapes or albums not shuffle all. Whereas Rhythmbox will let me just click my library and go … both have good integrations to the widget stack in gnome and cinnamon as well as bars like nwg panel and Waybar.

    Ooh had a fun though and tested. Musikcube works better in tty mode. So I will sometimes open second users in tty mode with ctrl+alt+f(1-5) or even clone a session into tty mode. and i just checked and cmus doesn’t draw the whole screen only whats highlighted. so if you have to drop back to shell or something musikcube is the better option… although i imagine if you’re in that situation music players and such are not high on the priority list :/ .

  • Unquote0270@programming.dev
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    1 year 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.

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For the most part I use ncmpcpp with mpd, but sometimes whenever I just want to listen to a single file I use mpv --no-video instead…

  • eksb@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    mpd + ncmpc

    I am but a simple man. All my music is FLAC. It is arranged neatly in folders. I just want to select an album to play. I do not need album covers, playlists, search, streaming, tags, lyrics, analyzers, or scrobbling.

  • 0x0@social.rocketsfall.net
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    1 year ago

    Mpd has always served me well. I use ncccmmmmppp (however its spelled) to manage playlists and such. For album artwork I run sxiv pointed at file in /tmp/. I forget how that part works, actually. I have a grid layout on a second monitor, so I just square up the mpd client and sxiv. Doesn’t look too bad.

    Semi-related, but as a project I ripped out the pressure/impact pads of an old midi keyboard for use as prev/(pause/unpause)/next buttons, so if the song sucks I can literally punch my desk to skip it.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      ncccmmmmppp (however its spelled)

      Thanks fish shell for suggesting me the right name with just “nc” ’cause I can’t remember it either

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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.

  • Whey Isolate@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    MPD + Cantata
    For the most part I just lump all my music into one playlist regardless of album or genre, but day to day I also use several different computers, and I find MPD to be the best for syncing configurations across all of them. Cantata also allows me to see album artwork and track information really easily and has good touchscreen support compared to terminal-based MPD clients.