Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
  • towamo7603@lemmy.world
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    42 minutes ago

    My janky 20 year old Foobar2k setup and plugin workflow is easily the thing I miss most when using Linux.

  • Wiz@midwest.social
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    1 hour ago

    Thanks for posting!

    Just this past weekend, I set up Navidrome on my refurbished Windows10-to-Linux media server machine. I’m using Symfonium on my phone, but I hadn’t figured out how to play my collection in Linux.

    I guess the answer is Feishin.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    I have flailed around forever trying to find something that suits on Linux, mostly I use Internet Radio these days, (have a small Yamaha Amp and decent bookshelf soeakers and sub) and just use ther app seems to be 10000 specific channels, like best songs of 1973, or best of AC/DC or whatever. I use Radiodroid on Android as well

    I used to just stuff a 1TB SD card full of MP3s and use that on my Android phone but alas those days have mostly past.

  • themoken@startrek.website
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I have a giant FLAC collection and I sometimes wish I could use these local players because I used Winamp/XMMS/quod libet back in the day, but I feel like I just can’t give up consistent access from outside the house.

    I ran Tauon for a while (and have run a few of the others over the years) but I always end up back at my Airsonic setup. Works in any browser, works in a few different Android apps (Subsonic compatible), less of a pain than mpd.

    Maybe it’d be different if I was still sitting in front of my computer virtually all the time, but nowadays phone to Bluetooth speaker/car/Chromecast is like 90% of my listening.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    No mention of Cantata, nor acknowledgement of Amarok’s recent revival. Whatever the reason might be for those omissions, this article doesn’t do a very good job of representing the state of linux music players.

  • ninepointeight@lemmy.ml
    8·
    6 hours ago

    There is too much focus on GTK4 libadwaita apps in this article. Libadwaita apps already dominate the front pages of Flathub everyday because of obvious bias.

    On the Qt/KDE side, Elisa, Fooyin and Cantata are good recommendations.

  • eagerbargain3@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    wait spin a docker container with navidrome and another docker with aonsoku web player and call it done or use any subsonic compatible clients. And this work anywhere!

  • Twig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    I need something similar to gmpc, that’s actually being developed

  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    13 hours ago

    “The state of Linux music players” but no mention of Audacious or Deadbeef? For shame.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I did not expect them to do that title justice, because how in the hell could anyone try 200 music players, but how did they get down to 7 and somehow skip some of the most popular players…? Did all of those somehow look broken on their setup? 🫠

    • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      12 hours ago

      I had to dig to find Deadbeef, it is not mentioned in a lot of articles or music player round ups, I’m quite happy with it personally, although my needs are small, I have a big local library but it’s already mostly organized and tagged, so I just needed something to play from directories which was quite hard to find actually, everything uses playlists which I don’t want.

      • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah, same. It’s the closest thing I’ve found to foobar2000 on Linux, in many ways.

        • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          It does remind me a lot of foobar, the interface builder could use a little work certainly it’s a little tricky, but it works! I accidentally deleted the whole layout at first and had to rebuild it because I deleted the master container haha. It was a learning experience anyways, and now it’s working great and looking how I want :)

    • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Deadbeef comes the closest to what I want in a music player. If I could get rid of the playlist display at the bottom and edit tags, it would be perfect.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        and edit tags

        Well, that sucks :( i was going to try it but i seem to be forever fixing tags, ao that’s a must have feature

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I’ve used VLC in WIndows forever, but it started giving me glitchy behavior in Ubuntu. Tried to upgrade to see if it was an old version/Snap thing, got frustrated with it not working. So I went through all the lists of Linux players, tried most of them. I like Audacious. It’s not perfect, but it works well, and I can deal with some of the minor things that are more preferences than problems. That’s all I wanted.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Built upon Mono and Gtk#

      Oof, I tell you. Oof.

      I doubt many devs will want to subject themselves to a Microsoft stack, so I wouldn’t put too much hope into a fork. Probably rather worth seeing if any of the current music players have a similar UX…