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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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[–] fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I've always just used audacious. It's been good. That said, I recently installed plex amp and the more I used it, the more I like it!

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

used to be a rhythmbox guy but I've been using audacious for a few years now

[–] Unsafe@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago

Ncmcpp, MPV with scripts

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Lollypop and Deadbeef

[–] rien333@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

mpdevil! It's got a nice GTK4/Adwaita UI, integrates with mpd, and gets out of your way.

https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil

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[–] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 4 points 10 months ago

Rhythmbox and Strawberry are the best, IMO. Rhythmbox has a lower impact on system resources but Strawberry is ideal for people with extensive music collections that you store offline like I do.

[–] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 4 points 10 months ago

Tori. Play music in your terminal. Built in rust and has great performance, and low trace on memory impact.

[–] Unquote0270@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Mpd and Cantata. Deadbeef for playing from a directory or for conversation. I haven't found anything as good as cantata but I have to admit that I miss the monolithic and do everything of musicbee.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like G4Music, beautiful and straightforward

[–] markkdark@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Tidal app from AUR and MPD.

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] clutchmattic@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

mpg123 file.mp3 >> /dev/null &

[–] 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.

[–] 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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[–] spsf64@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago
[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I wish MediMonkey was on Linux...

[–] 0x0@social.rocketsfall.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Mpd has always served me well. I use ncccmmmmppp (however its spelled) to manage playlists and such. For album artwork I run sxiv pointed at file in /tmp/. I forget how that part works, actually. I have a grid layout on a second monitor, so I just square up the mpd client and sxiv. Doesn't look too bad.

Semi-related, but as a project I ripped out the pressure/impact pads of an old midi keyboard for use as prev/(pause/unpause)/next buttons, so if the song sucks I can literally punch my desk to skip it.

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[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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