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?

  • eksb@programming.devEnglish
    341·
    10 months ago

    mpd + ncmpc

    I am but a simple man. All my music is FLAC. It is arranged neatly in folders. I just want to select an album to play. I do not need album covers, playlists, search, streaming, tags, lyrics, analyzers, or scrobbling.

  • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
    27·
    10 months ago

    CMUS! I’m surprised more people aren’t using this. It’s very cool, ultra lightweight, and easy to use. Maybe I just like stuff that runs in the console.

    • Jack3G@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      10 months ago

      cmus is great, it checks all my boxes, and is much easier to work with than mpd imo. The only downside for me is that I can’t see any of the cover art :(

      • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        There is no great/simple linux music player with proper cover display. Eliza was so wonky when I tried it months ago, the most simple functions didn’t work properly (like sorting for release year etc.)

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Also the hotkeys are terrible, I really really want to use it properly, but those shortcuts are horrid.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      10 months ago

      I feel this. If you could right click to interact with the text objects, then this combo would basically feel like foobar2000 for linux. I’m old enough to have missed how great foobar2000 felt after WinAmp started to get bloated (back before I got my hands on some Linux ISOs), so MPD + ncmpcpp just felt so refreshingly stripped down and a little nostalgic. I just fucking hate having to memorize a bunch of non-intuitive hotkey combos to do anything. Probably the same reason I’ve never bothered to properly learn Vim.

      • TheEntity@kbin.social
        6·
        10 months ago

        I’m an Emacs graybeard, so complex keybindings don’t scare me. My problem with ncmpcpp is twofold:

        1. It relies on MPD which is always a PITA to properly configure. Pulseaudio always managed to make it not work on a fresh system. Hopefully with Pipewire it’ll be better.
        2. The config format make no sense whatsoever. Especially the one with keybindings. It’s so cryptic I just stopped trying to understand it. Again, I’m an Emacs graybeard, to stress it as a point of reference.
        • tal@lemmy.today
          1·
          10 months ago

          MPD + ncmpcpp, I hate both and I’m yet to find anything better.

          I’m an Emacs graybeard

          Emacs does have a music player, emms, which is what I use.

          M-x package-install RET emms RET

          • TheEntity@kbin.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            I’m aware but thank you. I’ve tried it before and didn’t like it. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, though I don’t see much benefit in tying my music player to Emacs.

      • dan@upvote.au
        1·
        10 months ago

        When I’m using Windows, I still use foobar2000 for listening to radio streams.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      mpd is the best music player on any system

      I’ve started using Cantata as a graphical front end, though

    • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      My fave too as it’s closest to foobar, critically with the tagging interface I prefer. Have you added any additional plugins to your install? I tried adding a few (music library, Discord Rich Presence) but must be the right sort of stupid not to understand the instructions. facepalm

    • mihnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I use this with my Jellyfin server, but holy shit has it been wonky. I hit shuffle on my entire library and there’s albums it’s never even played and other with more plays than other albums combined.

      • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Are you sure it’s a Tauon issue and not a Jellyfin issue? I can’t say I’ve had it mis-report play counts for me but I use it with Navidrome, not Jellyfin - maybe Jellyfin doesn’t follow the Airsonic API as strictly or something?

        • mihnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Not sure. I’ve got an issue up on the git after I randomly had 30 plays on one song. New album that had been downloaded too.

          This is the wonkiest application though. Feels like early Winamp days again.

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    Rhythmbox. It was pre-installed on Ubuntu back when I was on Ubuntu, and I kinda just got used to it. Strawberry looks really cool though, I may have to give it a try

    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Rhythmbox is great and works well for editing tags for my 15,000 track library. I went to Lollypop for a while trying to get some more features but I ended up back at Rhythmbox.