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What's your favorite music player on Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 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.

[–] clutchmattic@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

mpg123 file.mp3 >> /dev/null &

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 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.

[–] art@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Tauon Music Box is minimalist and is also probably the best open source Spotify player.

Sometimes I'll just run Spotifyd and control it with my phone.

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Winamp or xmmp/qmmp.

[–] kariboka@bolha.forum 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is there winamp for linux?

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Winamp is Winamp for Linux. It runs in wine, but a lot of the visualization stuff requires that you have fully integrated your gpu drivers and wine.

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[–] Artopal@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Sayonara.

[–] spsf64@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Quodlibet

[–] gamma@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I used to use Strawberry, but my collection has grown enough that I can't just sync it everywhere, so I use Jellyfin now. I still use Strawberry's library management to move files into album artist/album/00 - track.ext though. Someday I'll dig into id3v2 to just write a script instead.

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[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

i use foobar because i can't live without dolby headphone

[–] Potajito@feddit.ch 2 points 10 months ago

Feishin for me and occasionally strawberry

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 points 10 months ago

I really like Elisa.

I mostly use it to listen to music that's not in my Jellyfin library yet but it does that beautifully.

[–] ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I use apple music. On linux I use Ciderwhich is amazing. Super clean interface and lots of nobs to turn in order to make everything sound and behave the way I like. If you like apple music or are looking for a streaming solution cider is awesome.

[–] 12510198@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Dolphin + mpv for me so I can see the album covers and metadata and see whats available, if I have a specific song in mind, then ill just use the terminal and mpv.

[–] citron@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

navidrome + ultrasonic

[–] hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

mpd+mpdevil

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I used to download my music with NewPipe and listen to it on Musicolet, but since then, i just gave up and got a cracked spotify client

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Schism Tracker

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Mostly CMUS. Clementine on rare occasions.

[–] cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Couldn't find any that works for me. At the moment I just play my music in mpv from terminal.

[–] kariboka@bolha.forum 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is there a winamp clone?

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

qmmp

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[–] clubb@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I just really love mplayer

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