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I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It's so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme π
How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y'all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!
@merci3 Just a very solid player. Linux music players come and go but Rhythmbox has always been there.
Been liking Amberol lately, but it's extremely simple. Nice UI though.
Cider, apple music
I really just want a media player that:
Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)
Has ReplayGain support (lots do)
Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)
Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.
Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.
~~Clementine does all those things.~~ I may have mistaken what you are asking for. Are you wanting a cover larger than a thumbnail in the "catalog" section?
Yes, bigger than that. I have tried Clementine.
Got it. My initial thought was you wanted to see the cover when it was playing. This makes more sense now. I don't use covers in the catalog part because my library is way too big. I would never be able to scroll through them all!
You can have a look at this superb list for you to test other softwares : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
Tauon is really, really great. But because it is not the most stable on my system (arch) I mainly use Strawberry which is also great.
Lightweight? I guess things have changed in the last 15+ years... I personally settled on Sayonara. Then I discovered Nuclear. Still undecided.
Side question that may be relevant since this is for local collections. Does anyone have a recommended tool for ripping and tagging audio CDs (e.g. with musicbrainz support)?
K3B I think.??
Last time I had a PC with an optical drive, I used the built-in features of Dolphin, and using a different software for metadata. If you use KDE, it's hard to find a good reason to do otherwise. It will usually get metadata from CDDB, but on the other hand for metadata It's really hard to beat Picard or Beets.
Beets will also scrape the lyrics and add them to the metadata, beside acousticbrainz goodness, multiple genres from Last.fm, and more. Picard will do most of this as well.
Are there any music players that will play my mp3s and stuff but also let me play audio from youtube or spotify without logging in? On android I use Musify, which does this but is a little wonky.
I've been sticking with music players that can output directly through alsa. I settled on strawberry cause it can do that and also has other features that i care about baked in ootb. Deadbeef can also output directly through alsa and i liked it for the most part, but what i didn't like was that things like mpris support wasn't baked in, so i would have to mess with plugins. I don't know if there are any other players that can output directly through alsa, those are the only two that i could find so far.
I love rhythym box, but had an issue getting it to show grillo dlna media shares, had to add dleyna packages and dleyna-grillo then everything was discoverable
Couldn't figure how to use the equalizer of strawberry
I use it occasionally but mostly I use terminal players like cmus or musikcube (aliased to mcu, because... geek)
Mostly I live in my shell with zellij and do basically everything on cli. Even web browsing (allbeit non graphical) can be done with stuff like lynx or w3m. And for fanfiction that's fine.
Well i personally doesn't like big screen audio player like clementine or rhythmbox, i like music player as simple & mini as possible like QMMP
I use Rhythmbox to edit/import/maintain my music collection and sync my iPods, and then I use Lollypop to play my music from my computer. Lollypop has next to no of the aforementioned features but its just nice to look at and simple.