Hello guys,
I’m looking for a music player, I have checked some wikis but none of those give me their personal opinion of the music players thus I would like to know your experience. Currently I am using musikcube as I just though it would look since since it can use your terminal colorscheme and I have also used Cue.
Anyway, what music player would you recommend for someone who has thousands of songs and wishes to create playlists seamlessly. Thanks in advance
I’m a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly…)
Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it’s nobody’s business
As any person that lives under a rock I barely blinked and everyone was using streaming services while I kept half of my hard drive full of pirated mp3 and never got to understand why people fell for that trap. I really like MPD, though when it goes yolo it’s a pain in the butt to re-configure it.
I used ncmpcpp for like 10 years (or even more, but I can’t recall) but only a couple years ago re-discovered ncmpc and liked its minimalism (compared to ncmpcpp, that is). Even wrote a couple stupid patches to change the default progress bar.
But a few weeks ago learned about mmtc. Which is written in rust.
I didn’t have rust installed and the 12 GB of RAM weren’t enough to compile rust in my Gentoo box so I used this as an excuse to buy more RAM. And then compiled rust and it took a bit more of an hour so I could use this shiny “new” MPD player. Only to discover its so minimal it doesn’t have an database update function - the author literally says you have to set a key combination to call mpc to do so.
My family fell for it, and it is really hard to convince them otherwise.
My family fell for it,
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Audacious with winamp skins.
No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)
oh man, that not even my “Today I’m feeling overwhelmed by my emotions so I cue my emotional playlist till I figure out a rational plan” But thanks anyway :)
I’m using Clementine for now it has nice management features, it’s overall pretty great. Only downside is that some minor gestures are broken and the UI is not really pretty ’
I would personally recommend Strawberry if anything since development of Clementine has been dead for a long while now, whilst it’s also of fork of Clementine too with frequent updates.
Oohhh i’ll surely check this out ! Thanks ! (I prefer strawberrys to Clementines anyway)
yep, it does not have the looks. hehe, seems alright to me though.
Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.
Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.
For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.
For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.
With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.
Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin
Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/
i dont believe in streaming of any kinda, my data is local
Jellyfin, i own my streaming
I don’t know why but this made me want to play that Windows pinball game like the old times
That space pinball game thing? It’s available on Linux, I saw it in the AUR a few months ago.
god bless the AUR
It’s been downhill since winamp (UI wise).
Just use VLC
I use Strawberry personally.
If you use a DAC, I can recommend Strawberry for the USB to DAC support.
What does strawberry different in such case?
I found QMMP few years ago. As a fan of Winamp, I haven’t looked back yet. QMMP is compatible with Winamp skins too.
Better search, I remember someone asking the same question recently. If I remember correctly, the general consensus was mpv + different frontends.
i like cmus.
I don’t have any suggestions for you, sorry. Now-a-days I just use Spotify or YouTube and stream stuff, then download the songs I really like, for offline play on my phone. I just wanted to comment on how much I miss the late 90’s early 2000’s era of WinAmp and having a real music collection. Sharing music with friends on CD’s, then eventually USB hard drives. Sadly way more fun than limitless access to anything you could want, on the internet.
Also shout out to GRiZ in your music list. That dude is absolutely fantastic, I love all of his stuff.
Hehe thanks. I download huge playlists and then listen to them offline because hate to wait for music to play, specially on Holidays. I recommend SimpMusic for you, lets you use Youtube Music privately with no ads and download music with no restrictions. As for how I download my music… my lawyer told me no to answer that.
I was born in 1996 but I feel you man, we used to share music with Infrared on those SonyEricssons and Nokias and then bluetooth.
