Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
  • ninepointeight@lemmy.ml
    4·
    20 days 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.

  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    20 days ago

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

    • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      20 days ago

      I had to dig to find Deadbeef, it is not mentioned in a lot of articles or music player round ups, I’m quite happy with it personally, although my needs are small, I have a big local library but it’s already mostly organized and tagged, so I just needed something to play from directories which was quite hard to find actually, everything uses playlists which I don’t want.

        • greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
          1·
          19 days 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·
            19 days 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.

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    20 days 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.

  • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

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

  • 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    20 days 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!)

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days 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.

  • PointyFluff@lemmy.ml
    12·
    18 days ago

    This is a terrible, ignorant, vibe-coded list. Arguably the fact that Spotify is your primary listening platform automatically invalidates any opinions on any linux media player you might stumble across.