My entire music library is a little over 45,000 tracks. ~90% is in ogg or mp3, with a small selection of recordings in flac, shn, and wavpack. If I queued up every single track, it would take me around 2 years of continuous 24/7 listening to get through everything (lots of Classical, Free Jazz, Jam, Trance, Hindustani, Nepalese, and Arabic stuff in there). I use Strawberry or Qmmp (w/the media library plugin) on my Linux installs, and Winamp or Foobar on my Windows installs. Never encountered an issue with any kind of lag related to my collection. What are you doing with 1.1 million tracks? Like, how do you plan to hear all of them? Are you just a collector? That's an enormous amount of music and would take at least a couple of decades to get through, unless it's all Grindcore or something.
Finding the right music player for Linux can be a personal choice, as it depends on your specific needs and preferences. Here are some highly regarded music players for Linux that you might consider:
>Amberol: Offers a simple and intuitive user experience with essential music controls.
>Elisa: A KDE-developed player that is fast, good-looking, and feature-rich.
>Rhythmbox: Comes pre-installed with many Linux distributions and supports internet radio and music streaming services.
>Sayonara Player: A customizable and lightweight player focused on performance.
>Strawberry Music Player: A fork of Clementine, supports various file formats and playlist management.
These players offer a range of features from basic playback to advanced library management, so you can choose one that best fits your requirements.
Except the default UI of Audacious hasn't been the Winamp clone one for years, though you can still switch.
I use Audacious because it allows me to use my music files without having to bother with tags or that "library scanning" bullshit many other players insist on. I have multiple terabytes of stuff in a complex folder structure and I'm not re-tagging that. Files and directories or bust.
Same goes for Android music players. VLC works, but not great. Odyssey works a little better for me but still has bugs.
You posted a good one, as have many people in this thread. Qmmp, Strawberry, and Sayonara are particularly great, but Audacious ain't no slouch either.
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You're supposed to run strawberry instead of clementine, but I also still run both, strawberry don't have all the features clem had
My entire music library is a little over 45,000 tracks. ~90% is in ogg or mp3, with a small selection of recordings in flac, shn, and wavpack. If I queued up every single track, it would take me around 2 years of continuous 24/7 listening to get through everything (lots of Classical, Free Jazz, Jam, Trance, Hindustani, Nepalese, and Arabic stuff in there). I use Strawberry or Qmmp (w/the media library plugin) on my Linux installs, and Winamp or Foobar on my Windows installs. Never encountered an issue with any kind of lag related to my collection. What are you doing with 1.1 million tracks? Like, how do you plan to hear all of them? Are you just a collector? That's an enormous amount of music and would take at least a couple of decades to get through, unless it's all Grindcore or something.
strawberry has a rainbow dash music visualizer, like anon (
Strawberry is the breasts.
) shows it also has nyankat. both can have frame rates up to 60 fps. dash is very cute and flies when music is playing, then sleeps when track is paused or stopped. pic related 1/2.
I haven't used WINE on any of my machines in years. Feels great to be running pure GNU/Linux. Flatpaks and Snapperinos can eat a hundred dicks too. Repos + AppImages + Compile anything too obscure not to be available in either format = A God tier computing experience. 99.9% of Windows-only software is absolute trash.
>i am actually using this one, but the ui interaction is not doing for me
use left mouse click to interact with the graphical elements of the application
deadbeef has option to show album art in the list view, dont remember how to do it anymore as i dont listen to music anymore, and if i do i just open youtube tab
GNU+Linux has some of the best audio software avaialable, there is even a kernel specifically for low latency audio recording. Can't go wrong unless you install wine for some gay shit.
Frick off with that moronic minimalist bullshit, "Artist/Title" was never a good way to organize music. What do you think an album is? Genres? Subgenres? Compilations? Your approach only works for extremely small and homogenous collections but quickly falls apart when you're listening to more than 1 genre.
It's quite sad that cmus is mostly unmaintained. While it does everything I want, still a native pipewire support would be great. Maybe I should switch to mpd + np...something. I'm curious, does it support scripting and some kind of remote control from CLI?
You posted a good one, as have many people in this thread. Qmmp, Strawberry, and Sayonara are particularly great, but Audacious ain't no slouch either.
I'm using 3 different music player. It sucks. None of them are perfect.
My favorite is actually cmus, which I use to play my music library. It's a terminal player, but very easy to use, sadly it has no multi library support. Then I use Audacious to play single music files. The third one is Winamp for my audiobooks, which imo still has the best way to define libraries, but it's kinda buggy with Wine.
I really want to get down to just one player for everything, but all the players I tried either don't have multi library support or I wasn't able to set up the libraries in a way which suit my autism.
Qmmp is also the breasts, when I want to feel like I'm back in 2002 on Winamp under WinXP, tripping out to the visualizer with my dumb friends getting high. Goom is sick, and the ProjectM plugin - plus all those milkdrop presets - is a crazy blast from the past.
True that. Love this shit. The media library plugin gets major improvements every few months, so when it's a little more up to snuff (re: a switch for prioritizing 'album artist' over 'artist'), it'll be the only audio player I use. I like Sayonara too, but it doesn't seem like it'll ever have as many plugins available for it as Qmmp.
I liked Lollypop’s “random album” list and homepage with recommended artists and albums but the UI is slow and missing very useful features (forward button, jump to playing album, etc)
Will probably just figure out a deadbeef or cmus setup linked to beets to keep everything organized
I wish foobar was properly supported but I don’t think I can do without extended fonts
I use Amarok or some Web interface like Jellyfin or airsonic. Also mpv (with lyrics and playlist script) when I just want to play something quick.
I wouldn't shill it though, Amarok is extremely bloated and the main dev (an old German school teacher called Myriam) isn't very active anymore.
Airsonic is bloated too, and Jellyfin offers basic functionality, but not much more.
but that is the good one THO.
What's wrong with clementine? It's not exactly lightweight but it's ultra comfy. Just disable the online bullshit.
looks pretty old
Shut yo b***h ass up
no, it looks good zoomie
You're supposed to run strawberry instead of clementine, but I also still run both, strawberry don't have all the features clem had
The duplicate entry bug that has existed for at least a decade and never been fixed.
https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/
terrible performance with 1.1 million audio files in library
My entire music library is a little over 45,000 tracks. ~90% is in ogg or mp3, with a small selection of recordings in flac, shn, and wavpack. If I queued up every single track, it would take me around 2 years of continuous 24/7 listening to get through everything (lots of Classical, Free Jazz, Jam, Trance, Hindustani, Nepalese, and Arabic stuff in there). I use Strawberry or Qmmp (w/the media library plugin) on my Linux installs, and Winamp or Foobar on my Windows installs. Never encountered an issue with any kind of lag related to my collection. What are you doing with 1.1 million tracks? Like, how do you plan to hear all of them? Are you just a collector? That's an enormous amount of music and would take at least a couple of decades to get through, unless it's all Grindcore or something.
>GTK
>python
disgusting
Finding the right music player for Linux can be a personal choice, as it depends on your specific needs and preferences. Here are some highly regarded music players for Linux that you might consider:
>Amberol: Offers a simple and intuitive user experience with essential music controls.
>Elisa: A KDE-developed player that is fast, good-looking, and feature-rich.
>Rhythmbox: Comes pre-installed with many Linux distributions and supports internet radio and music streaming services.
>Sayonara Player: A customizable and lightweight player focused on performance.
>Strawberry Music Player: A fork of Clementine, supports various file formats and playlist management.
These players offer a range of features from basic playback to advanced library management, so you can choose one that best fits your requirements.
Don't forget Audacious if you want a Winamp clone.
Except the default UI of Audacious hasn't been the Winamp clone one for years, though you can still switch.
I use Audacious because it allows me to use my music files without having to bother with tags or that "library scanning" bullshit many other players insist on. I have multiple terabytes of stuff in a complex folder structure and I'm not re-tagging that. Files and directories or bust.
Same goes for Android music players. VLC works, but not great. Odyssey works a little better for me but still has bugs.
thanks ChatGPT!
Thanks GPT chan
But I'll stick with deadbeef
strawberry has a rainbow dash music visualizer, like anon (
) shows it also has nyankat. both can have frame rates up to 60 fps. dash is very cute and flies when music is playing, then sleeps when track is paused or stopped. pic related 1/2.
pic 2/2, dashy sleeping.
for me it's mpd + ncmpcpp
What's the foobar of linux?
you posted the good one its a foobar clone they have clones of every music player
deadbeef but its missing some features but theyre adequately replaced
Literally DeadBeef xD
Foobar over wine
I haven't used WINE on any of my machines in years. Feels great to be running pure GNU/Linux. Flatpaks and Snapperinos can eat a hundred dicks too. Repos + AppImages + Compile anything too obscure not to be available in either format = A God tier computing experience. 99.9% of Windows-only software is absolute trash.
>Flatpaks and Snapperinos can eat a hundred dicks too.
>AppImages
anon... I...
just use tauon music box
https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/
i am actually using this one, but the ui interaction is not doing for me
Something where i can always see the album cover art, this is how i remember stuff nowadays.
>i am actually using this one, but the ui interaction is not doing for me
use left mouse click to interact with the graphical elements of the application
deadbeef has option to show album art in the list view, dont remember how to do it anymore as i dont listen to music anymore, and if i do i just open youtube tab
^ This. I mean this if you use flatpack.
I used tauon for a long time because nothing else suits me, but I recall it being kind of buggy since its UI is a little unique
What are you personally looking for in a music player?
moc
nimcompoop
cmus
vlc
GNU+Linux has some of the best audio software avaialable, there is even a kernel specifically for low latency audio recording. Can't go wrong unless you install wine for some gay shit.
Let me guess, you need more?
Frick off with that moronic minimalist bullshit, "Artist/Title" was never a good way to organize music. What do you think an album is? Genres? Subgenres? Compilations? Your approach only works for extremely small and homogenous collections but quickly falls apart when you're listening to more than 1 genre.
It can do that too, that's just the default mode
The problem is you want a database. You want a local music booru. Hierarchical file systems can't do what we want.
Has ist already been over 3 years since George Flyod? I feel like I lost track of time for a while
QMMP or just Winamp in Wine
Audacious does everything I need: music controls + EQ + tabs + native Qt. Doesn't support .cue but it's not a biggie.
Strange. Audacious on my PC can handle cue sheet.
This is one of main reason I chose Audacious.
I just use Audacious or VLC. Anything that can't play CDs is useless to me though.
DeaDBeeF
Linuxgays wishing they had AIMP
um, it works fine here champ
> neofetch screenshot
opinion discarded
>shows you something working
>has autistic homosexual freakout
It's quite sad that cmus is mostly unmaintained. While it does everything I want, still a native pipewire support would be great. Maybe I should switch to mpd + np...something. I'm curious, does it support scripting and some kind of remote control from CLI?
you use mpc to control mpd from the cli or in scripts
use musicbee or foobar2k with wine
wine + foobar
until you need a cjk font then everything is just ▯▯▯▯ft.▯▯-▯▯▯▯▯▯.flac
I have always just used amarok. It just works.
I never understood people who use a dedicated music player. I've always used mpv for playback and the filesystem for library management.
Vlc media player you plebian
audacious or deadbeef
You posted a good one, as have many people in this thread. Qmmp, Strawberry, and Sayonara are particularly great, but Audacious ain't no slouch either.
deadbeef is good, moron
For me, Scurrilous was peak PtH
They were already falling off by then. They will never do another Kezia or Fortress.
I don't know. kept crashing for some reason for me.
One day, if this bothers me enough I might make one
Elisa is good
hard dependency on VLC
no thanks
>hard dependency on VLC
And?
A media player which depends on another media player to work is very silly. Also, no one should ever suffer VLC on their system.
What's wrong with vlc? That's my goto media player
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/milestones/103#tab-issues
do better
Useless bike shedding
Useless bike shedding
mpv
I'm using 3 different music player. It sucks. None of them are perfect.
My favorite is actually cmus, which I use to play my music library. It's a terminal player, but very easy to use, sadly it has no multi library support. Then I use Audacious to play single music files. The third one is Winamp for my audiobooks, which imo still has the best way to define libraries, but it's kinda buggy with Wine.
I really want to get down to just one player for everything, but all the players I tried either don't have multi library support or I wasn't able to set up the libraries in a way which suit my autism.
I enjoy Rhythmbox, but for the past few years I've been using PlexAMP
gnome music
if you use flatpack then there is a better option but I forgot its name
amberol?
t. ebassi
also nope. ebussy can't code for shit. lol
I mean this one https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music
Wait, did Bussy remove his credits? He isn't listed in the credits
are you pretending to be a moron?
mpv?
MPD+cantata on KDE
Strawberry is the breasts.
Qmmp is also the breasts, when I want to feel like I'm back in 2002 on Winamp under WinXP, tripping out to the visualizer with my dumb friends getting high. Goom is sick, and the ProjectM plugin - plus all those milkdrop presets - is a crazy blast from the past.
And here I just use it because Winamp 2.X's interface is the GOAT for space efficiency.
True that. Love this shit. The media library plugin gets major improvements every few months, so when it's a little more up to snuff (re: a switch for prioritizing 'album artist' over 'artist'), it'll be the only audio player I use. I like Sayonara too, but it doesn't seem like it'll ever have as many plugins available for it as Qmmp.
mpd + whatever frontend
DooDBiiF
I think QMMP and DeaDBeeF are the better ones. Either those or using foo2k through Wine.
>I think QMMP and DeaDBeeF are the better ones.
agree, that Tauon looks good too, even Audacious and Elisa are good
>can't find a good one
because there aren't any. Even WMP mogs them all. It's like a freak show
Clementine, coz there is no need to update a fricking music player.
Luv me sum Clemmie OwO
I just simply use Winamp 5 in Wine
mpv [file.flac] --no-audio
Speaking of internet radio, does anyone have any suggestions for some to listen to? Looking for some new tunes.
Slayradio and honkfm is all you need
Do any internet radios have DJs or personalities? I miss my morning kino radio shows.
>honkfm
beautiful
I liked Lollypop’s “random album” list and homepage with recommended artists and albums but the UI is slow and missing very useful features (forward button, jump to playing album, etc)
Will probably just figure out a deadbeef or cmus setup linked to beets to keep everything organized
I wish foobar was properly supported but I don’t think I can do without extended fonts
i want cmus to autoplay all songs automatically, can't do it because it is made by autists
i will probably end up writing my own
"S" ?
> mpv file_path
literally all you need
mpv --shuffle /path/to/folder/full/of/music/
For me it's MusicBee through Wine.
Ncmpcpp for me
cmus does everything it needs to do
foobar2000
works on ickeck
I liked Banshee but development has been halted since soivelopers ditched local music collections for spotify subscriptions
Nice bait
You know you already posted the good one
not azzzazzzin.. but gud choice.
good music taste
I use Amarok or some Web interface like Jellyfin or airsonic. Also mpv (with lyrics and playlist script) when I just want to play something quick.
I wouldn't shill it though, Amarok is extremely bloated and the main dev (an old German school teacher called Myriam) isn't very active anymore.
Airsonic is bloated too, and Jellyfin offers basic functionality, but not much more.
Sidequest: how does one find and download high quality or lossless music in 2024? Soulseek?
yes soulseek
deemix with a pirated arl from github
>deemix
there is still a working version out there? please show me your ways anon
is clementine the only audio player I'd be able to transfer music to my ipod with?
rhythmbox also does it supposedly
there's also gtkpod
I just use jellyfin to play music I have on a NAS, am I doing it wrong?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar2000
>ctrl+f
>ncmpcpp 2 matches
>mpd 5 matches
setup mpd and use whatever client(s) you need
I use ncmpcpp + mpdevil
also cmus
>protest the hero
>still exists
>he still listens to them