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nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players
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This doesn’t seem exhaustive enough to be titled “the state of Linux music players.”
i just want one i can use to sync [only 20 gBs] to my phone, keep my playlists updated, and listen to music. syncing to my phone wirelessly is a big plus, but i am old enough to have two boxes of cables.
Command line mplayer seems fine to me. I have it aliased to “m” for convenience. Playlists work great (just make a shell script to play the songs you want). Need help getting to sleep? Shell script that sets the volume to barely audible, then plays some long instrumental audios. And so on.
This was posted here, and criticized, two months ago:
has it been updated since? i always enjoy talking music players
edit: hey! found my old comment! also some folk i think are my dorks from my old college days maybe i hope? if they’re using the same usernames that’d be wild and fun. i wonder if i should break out my old cult username.
I like being exposed to new applications, but Elisa should’ve come up in the author’s search as
kdePackages.elisa. Especially if you’re using KDE (where the Qt UI blends in well), it plainly meets all four of the criteria for inclusion. It’s such a major oversight given its popularity.That screenshot of Strawberry in the blog post really makes it look bad.
Here’s a better one…
Quodlibet is the one with all the features.
As all my music is stored on my jellyfin, and since I like the GNOME-isms, I can’t recommend Gelly enough.
I’ve been using Audacious for years now; it’s lightweight and also has no library management but I find I don’t really need that. I just point it to any one album on my drive and it plays it.
I have each album saved as a separate ‘playlist’ which works well for me. I can see people being annoyed with how I have it set up, but I like it this way.
Audacious is the only one I’ve tried and works perfect for me. Load up my whole library and shuffle!
Audacious isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than the others that I tried. Had been using VLC forever in WIndows, but for whatever reason I kept running into issues that I couldn’t resolve, so began a search for alternatives.
The only huge issue I have is when I add more songs to my music directory, I can’t refresh the existing playlist. I have to delete and add the directory again. Don’t do it a lot, so it’s more inconvenience, and everything else works so much better than other alternatives did.
