nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players
I use supersonic with jellyfin.
VLC is where it’s at.
I’ve been using Elisa music player, a kde app, for a while now. It’s relatively simple to use, required no setup and the user experience is pleasant.
I use it to manage my library of a couple thousand songs in lossless formats (about 100GB worth) with no performance issues.
I get music from ripping old CDs or from Qobuz, that lets you download DRM free music after purchasing and album or a subscription
Saving this thread for later. Hoping to find something with a wide variety of visualizers
that would be great! i miss visualizers in music players!
I have been using JRiver Media Center for over 20 years, started on Windows and they have a perfect Linux and Mac versions. More options and features than I would ever use. It just works, best player I have ever used.
This looks interesting, I will give it a try one of these days.
My gold standard for audio players is MusicBee because I LOVE the album art view, where if you click on an album it “folds open” the songs without taking you away from the album art view. I couldn’t find a Linux player with a comparable feature, and I tried a bunch of them. I wish I wasn’t so particular about my music player but it seems everyone is, hence the many different software.
I'm glad Fooyin got an honorary mention, because that's all I need:
Update: After reading through many comments, a lot of people mentioned their affinity for foobar2000-style players, and fooyin came up as the most frequent suggestion. I haven’t tested it, but it seems to be very popular. If you want even more options, fooyin comes highly recommended by a lot of people.
Nobody is talking about muffon but I think it’s very close to perfect.
This doesn’t seem exhaustive enough to be titled “the state of Linux music players.”
I agree, it’s missing so many.
This was posted here, and criticized, two months ago:
Heh, clicked on that and saw my post at the top. That threw me for a second.
As an update, I’ve since worked out how to get Navidrome working over Tailscale and an Nginx redirect from my VPS, so I now have Feishin installed on several computers, all drawing from the same Navidrome server at home.
It’s pretty cool.
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.
https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Tauon looks cool, though
rmpc is great. But TUI, so not for everyone, I know.
vlc has a command line mode, cvlc. It’s not great TUI program but works.
That screenshot of Strawberry in the blog post really makes it look bad.
Here’s a better one…
I only need fooyin
Quodlibet is the one with all the features.
Agreed. It is my player of choice, though being it is pure Python, it uses a lot of resources for a music player. If I was tight on ram or using a slower CPU, I’d probably go with something leaner.
What a strange take. When I first switched to Linux in ~2009 I tried a ton of other players. Weirdly, Quod Libet was the only performant option back then. Amarok, Rhythmbox, Banshee, Clementine, etc all chugged to load my library with their UIs freezing for upwards of half an hour before I had something usable. Quod Libet just worked.
Right now it’s using 598MB with a music library of ~31K songs.
Mine is running at 1.2GB of ram, but I have… a substantial library
I absolutely adore being able to click into and between genres and artists to get to albums and songs instantly. I want to ultimately move back to MPD, maybe Navidrome or Subsonic, but… I just love Quod Libet.
this looks like foobar2k, cool
I love that it has proper search queries: https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/searching.html
Do other players have this as well?And the queries work with custom tags, which can also be added to any element of the UI. It’s so good if you’re ADHD about organization.
I love how I can type things like #(added < 1 week) to search for albums I recently added to my library.
i’ve always been a “organize everything at the file system level, and just play folders on demand in winamp” type guy… so when i couldn’t find a good winamp replacement after switching to linux, i ended up on quod libet and got used to organizing everything via tagging
quod libet was a bit overwhelming at first and forced me to fix a lot of broken tags, but totally worth it.
I just use Subsonic and stream music from my server sitting literally a foot away
Mood. Love what subsonic has let me do with my music collection. Navidrome, Arpeggi, and music assistant.
