Link: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/
For podcasts and radio, you’ll need another program. But this is the closest any player has come to the Windows-only MusicBee masterpiece. Via Wine, I’ve been using MusicBee since I switched to Linux a few months ago, but it was tedious to set up.
Tauon Music Box has the best search I’ve ever seen, just type anywhere and start playback with left click or jump to song/artist/album with right click. It also has a great way to write filter and sort queries for custom libraries (the same as playlists here). F5 shows the current cover and song name in “fullscreen” with a frequency spectrum visualizer.
Screenshots from my library with custom settings:
I also consider using it to play my audiobooks, because you can separate playlists to scan separate folders and not get music and audiobooks mixed.
oh wow thanks for sharing. I had never heard about this player before. It seems pretty cool
Looks interesting, reminds me of a pared down Plexamp
My goodness, thank you for this. I hope the project continues for a while!
I hope that too, this is by far the best player I have tried on Linux.
I have been using this for a few hours now and it’s pretty great, so far my favorite of all the players I tried. Left the dev a few bucks on GitHub.
Does it use embedded lyrics or insist on using the internet?
Secondarily, does it offer any of the more useful tagging controls and library management features?
I keep looking for a Linux native player that can get close to musicbee. Haven’t found one yet, they all lack major features like batch file renaming and organization.
It always uses local lyrics when available, otherwise you have the option to right-click sidebar → search for lyrics (supports Genius and lyrics.ovh).
These are the options for metadata:
For actual tag management, I’ve used puddletag only. But there is some batch rename functionality in this player:
Does it have smart playlists that can combine other playlists?
Yes, you can even generate new playlist with right-click from an existing one (most played etc.). You can also combine multiple playlists/libraries to another playlist like this:
s"My First Playlist" s"My Second Playlist" ahttps://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox/wiki/Generator-Codes
Now, if you tell me it’s subsonic compatible and I can use that smartlist feature with subsonic music as a source, I’ll have found my new music player :)
Nice music collection!
