Hello guys,
I’m looking for a music player, I have checked some wikis but none of those give me their personal opinion of the music players thus I would like to know your experience. Currently I am using musikcube as I just though it would look since since it can use your terminal colorscheme and I have also used Cue.
Anyway, what music player would you recommend for someone who has thousands of songs and wishes to create playlists seamlessly. Thanks in advance
Just use VLC
Probably a bit late, but I really like Quod Libet. It is very extensible, runs light, has excellent tagging and filtering, and just feels similar enough to how I set up my foobar2000.
I don’t have any suggestions for you, sorry. Now-a-days I just use Spotify or YouTube and stream stuff, then download the songs I really like, for offline play on my phone. I just wanted to comment on how much I miss the late 90’s early 2000’s era of WinAmp and having a real music collection. Sharing music with friends on CD’s, then eventually USB hard drives. Sadly way more fun than limitless access to anything you could want, on the internet.
Also shout out to GRiZ in your music list. That dude is absolutely fantastic, I love all of his stuff.
Hehe thanks. I download huge playlists and then listen to them offline because hate to wait for music to play, specially on Holidays. I recommend SimpMusic for you, lets you use Youtube Music privately with no ads and download music with no restrictions. As for how I download my music… my lawyer told me no to answer that.
I was born in 1996 but I feel you man, we used to share music with Infrared on those SonyEricssons and Nokias and then bluetooth.I was born in 1996 but I feel you man
JFC, how to make me feel old AF, 1966 here .
I don’t stream anything.
You are younger than you think, my parents were born 63’/64’ and would never be on a forum talking about music players. :) On a Linux forum at that.
piracy is encouraged on the fediverse (except for .world cause they’re nerds). it’s ok to say you pirate your music, say it loud and proud
aye aye captain!
Same, I just use Spotify, or Plexamp for anything on my own server.
i like cmus.
You might want to have a look at https://beets.io
Seems like it could be useful for managing huge libraries
Yeah that’s what it’s for. And generating playlists and what not. Won’t solve you player question per say, but it sounds like what you’re looking for still.
i use moc because the command line aesthetic
I’ve tried a few and settled on Audacious.
It’s pretty basic overall but it allows you to use original Winamp skins which I love!
As any person that lives under a rock I barely blinked and everyone was using streaming services while I kept half of my hard drive full of pirated mp3 and never got to understand why people fell for that trap. I really like MPD, though when it goes yolo it’s a pain in the butt to re-configure it.
I used ncmpcpp for like 10 years (or even more, but I can’t recall) but only a couple years ago re-discovered ncmpc and liked its minimalism (compared to ncmpcpp, that is). Even wrote a couple stupid patches to change the default progress bar.
But a few weeks ago learned about mmtc. Which is written in rust.
I didn’t have rust installed and the 12 GB of RAM weren’t enough to compile rust in my Gentoo box so I used this as an excuse to buy more RAM. And then compiled rust and it took a bit more of an hour so I could use this shiny “new” MPD player. Only to discover its so minimal it doesn’t have an database update function - the author literally says you have to set a key combination to call mpc to do so.
My family fell for it, and it is really hard to convince them otherwise.
My family fell for it,
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They are probably referring to the streaming services bit
Audacious with winamp skins.
I was actually looking to use Winamp. Does this skin makes it look exactly like Winamp? How do I get it?
Better search, I remember someone asking the same question recently. If I remember correctly, the general consensus was mpv + different frontends.
I started using fooyin recently, and it’s good enough to have replaced running foobar2000 in WINE for me.
What is the appeal, I understand fb2k was the shit back in the days. But nowadays I want a music player with elegant defaults instead of customization?
Different strokes. If I preferred using software that was just good enough out of the box over something I can customize to my exact liking then I probably wouldn’t be using Linux in the first place, or at least not the way I do in general.
Beyond that, having it be customizable means other people can change it to their liking and share that configuration, and maybe I’d experiment with it and find something I didn’t even know I wanted.
oh, Its in the AUR… nice!!
Lollypop, it’s a bit dated in terms of design for a GNOME app but it has all the features you could want. Can’t comment on playlists though, I have never used playlists and honestly don’t get the point of them.
I was like you, did not get the point of playlists until I got into techno and some other genres that most people would consider “trashy”. Plus there are some collections of Movies/Games that fit nice into a playlist. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I will check it now :) .
installed foobar2000 with wine. nothing can ever beat it. and i has to have dolby headphone.
I have always loved FB2K, but I didn’t like using it in linux. It was slow to start (which is snap’s fault) and was tough to get working in a stable state once I started trying to use components that I prefer (probably wine’s fault, but who knows).
I don’t know why but this made me want to play that Windows pinball game like the old times
That space pinball game thing? It’s available on Linux, I saw it in the AUR a few months ago.
god bless the AUR
Its also on Flathub. I think it is a WINE wrapper
It was reimplemented a couple of years ago - don’t have a link to hand but it’s on GitHub - so it’s likely to be native.
This is what a NAS + Plex/Jellyfin is for.
uhg plex? no way. i cant imagine any self hosters choosing plex
Jellyfin, i own my streaming
It’s been downhill since winamp (UI wise).
You can still use Winamp skins on Audacious, like me.
For some reason I use YouTube music most of the time.
Vlc would be my choice for local. And maybe a jellyfin for my server.
