Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    This is weirdly timely, considering I installed Feishin last week in my never-ending quest to find a music player that’s as familiar and useful to me as iTunes.

    Initially I was put off at having to also install Navidrome just to be able to listen to the music I alredy have available to me, but ultimately it’s ok. And yeah, Feishin is nice. Perhaps a little ‘busy’, but compared to Strawberry it’s minimal, stripped down application. I know everyone seems to love Strawberry, but I hate it. I shouldn’t have to make a playlist in order to be able to listen to an album. Just let me press play on the sodding album!

    Anyway, yeah +1 for Feishin here.

    • starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev
      2·
      2 months ago

      For iTunes based music player there is also rhythmbox which is standalone (no subsonic server needed). It’s what i used until i ultimately switched to navidrome + supersonic. I’ll check out feishin since that didn’t come up in my initial search last year. Ive liked supersonic though. It has a decent, simple UI and you can play albums by clicking on them

      Edit: ok feishin seems pretty cool. I might stick with this

    • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I stopped using iTunes around 2012 and I expect its design has changed quite a bit, since then; Banshee was a perfect capture of it, then, and I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement for Banshee since development halted on it.

      Granted, the most important qualities, for me, is for the player to allow tagging within the app. and to rename and organize the files by their tags automatically once those tags have been modified and every Linux developer seems to hate that so my unique requirements seem to largely drive my impediment.

  • ninepointeight@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 months ago

    There is too much focus on GTK4 libadwaita apps in this article. Libadwaita apps already dominate the front pages of Flathub everyday because of obvious bias.

    On the Qt/KDE side, Elisa, Fooyin and Cantata are good recommendations.

  • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Using Electron for something that should be lightweight like a music player should be an automatic disqualification.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      For music library management and playback? Why would they mention it? Just because it can play audio formats doesn’t mean it’s suitable for every use case or they’d have to mention every FFmpeg frontend too.

  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    “The state of Linux music players” but no mention of Audacious or Deadbeef? For shame.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, I did not expect them to do that title justice, because how in the hell could anyone try 200 music players, but how did they get down to 7 and somehow skip some of the most popular players…? Did all of those somehow look broken on their setup? 🫠

        • greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I don’t see anyone mentioning Fooyin, which seems to be an attempt at being an open source clone of Foobar2000, right down to its plug in system.

          Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren’t using it? Do they just not know about it? Its missing a few features here and there, but the UI is so 1 to 1 that I can’t imagine trying to use anything else as a replacement.

          • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren’t using it? Do they just not know about it?

            The latter, I assume, as I confess I had never heard of it before you mentioned it. Now that I’ve checked it out, it looks very promising! Thanks for the heads-up.

  • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I feel stuck between players that feel old and aged like Strawberry, and yet more electron apps like feishin. I’ve been using Supersonic, but I’d like to see more variety

  • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Feishin, SuperSonic, cmus, and kew are the only ones I really like with kew being my personal favourite.

    I don’t need much from my music player as I just like to hit shuffle on all my songs (6000+) and kew just does that.

    I’ve also started thinking about doing streaming music again as I currently have a month trial with Qobuz and I really like it. Thankfully lastnight I was FINALLY able to find a linux Qobuz player, QBZ, that works very well as I’m not a fan of the Qobuz webplayer.

      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        .cue files are there to inform your player about where songs/chapters start in a record. It’s mostly for situation where you have ripped CDs as singular files and not tracks. It’s a frequent occurence in lossless torrents (.flac, .alac, .wav, audiocd territory) and the reasoning behind that may be that it keeps the most exact copy of a CD without any user-side interference, and .cue files are text files laying alongside your cd rip (and probably a log of ripping). Such interference may also be seen as unwanted in some cases, e.g. when the record is mastered that way one track seemlessly flows into another, so any way to cut between them is arguable.

      • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Lidarr can’t even get a reliable metadata provider or allow people to define their own without forking the project. It’s pretty mismanaged.

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Lollypop is actually a GTK3 app (it looks pretty dated on my mostly GKT4 GNOME setup) and it’s imo still the best GNOME music app. I’m honestly suprised they say Lollypop’s UX sucks but then praise RecordBox’s because I can’t stand RecordBox (why make me double click to play a song* and don’t get me started on the Artist+Album view). Also surprised Gapless didn’t get mentioned here, I think this is actually pretty decent though its queue system could use work.

    *The dev says this choice is so you can select songs and instead you should use the little play button next on the right side of all playable entries.

  • 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    For my mpd + ncmpcpp folks I would highly recommend RMPC. It’s more of a modern take on TUI players (and actually supports displaying album covers!)

  • eagerbargain3@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    wait spin a docker container with navidrome and another docker with aonsoku web player and call it done or use any subsonic compatible clients. And this work anywhere!