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I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It's so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme π
How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y'all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!
I prefer Quod Libet but I have fond memories of rhythmbox.
Absolutely classic music player. The iTunes 1.0 UI pattern, which was pre-enshittification. To my eyes, I still donβt think Iβve ever seen a more overall efficient and descriptive way of browsing a local music library.
Awww... iTunes is that bad now? Man....last time I used iTunes was probably 2010 or so. Bummer.
Love Rhythmbox! I used it way way back when I first installed Ubuntu (back when it was good) and it was part of a special nostalgic feeling of having been ushered into this new linux world, and I think it lets you rate your songs 1-5 stars (if you want) and I had a lot of fun doing that.
I also use Rhythmbox, the UI is clean and simple. Other music players either are too complicated (UI has too much clutter, play queues) or want to automatically import all audio files in my home directory into the library, which is annoying. But to be fair, I haven't tried a lot of other players, because I'm happy using Rhythmbox.
Fooyin is also a solid choice.
the UI kinda looks like a QT based Rhythmbox. I'll give it a try later π
It still can't sort or browse by album artist, which makes it a real pain to use. You have to apply a patch and compile it from source to make it usable.
Clementine or strawberry for me
Same for me. I was using foobar2000 back on windows. When I switched to linux I found out I set up my foobar basically the same as vanilla Clementine was set. So I was sold instantly. Later switched to Strawberry, because I felt Clementine is too long dead and it also started to glitch icons on newer qt for me. Strawberry is great.
You can have a look at this superb list for you to test other softwares : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
Tauon is really, really great. But because it is not the most stable on my system (arch) I mainly use Strawberry which is also great.
Thanks for the tip π Where did you get Tauon from? The AUR? There is an official flatpak release, which I presume would be more stable.
From AUR yes. I did not test the flatpak. It needs some time to know how to use it but it is rewarding.
Well i personally doesn't like big screen audio player like clementine or rhythmbox, i like music player as simple & mini as possible like QMMP
I like cmus best. It is both as simple and as complicated as I need it to be.
mpd for me
I use it occasionally but mostly I use terminal players like cmus or musikcube (aliased to mcu, because... geek)
Mostly I live in my shell with zellij and do basically everything on cli. Even web browsing (allbeit non graphical) can be done with stuff like lynx or w3m. And for fanfiction that's fine.
Just out of curiosity, what advantages do you think cli apps have for this sort of application? Is the experience snappier?
Honestly I use an app called zellage and I like being able to put my music player(cmus) and artwork ripper(cmus-art), and usually a visualizer (wtf can't I remember it's name).
There's no particular advantage so much as my personal preference for staying on keyboard and off mouse. I have everything bound to key chords that I've more or less memorized so it's a quick ctrl+t n for new tab ctrl+p v move pane down , etc etc and I can do all of it more or less by feeling.
It's largely an aesthetic preference, but It's also that I have a slow system. So I can keep ram use down. 2nd gen core i3 problems (shrugs)
My only complaint with Rhythmbox is that it lets you close it while playing a song and then the ui is gone but the song keeps playing. Insanity!
I use Rhythmbox to edit/import/maintain my music collection and sync my iPods, and then I use Lollypop to play my music from my computer. Lollypop has next to no of the aforementioned features but its just nice to look at and simple.
i can't leave foobar2000 until i find something that has dolby headphone π₯² and it's sometimes wonky in wine
has dolby headphone
What does that mean?
there's a dolby headphone addon for it and it creates like a 3d sound. all alternatives I've tried so far suck ass.
I just looked up the initial release, it was in August 2001. I don't remember the first time I used it, but it was probably 20 years ago. Still remains my favourite for the reasons you mentioned.
For a second, I misread this and thought Rockbox had a desktop port.
Never heard of it, but looks like a cool project!
Command line mplayer has been plenty for me.
I think its almost perfect, just need a plugin to be able to show lyrics synchronised with the song
I'm happy with just reading lyrics on the browser lol
I'm old fashion, I put the synchronised subtitles on the mp3 files manually as a hobby, using Musicolet on Android, but I can see why is not a thing anymore
I use audacious with a winamp skin.
Been liking Amberol lately, but it's extremely simple. Nice UI though.
I've been sticking with music players that can output directly through alsa. I settled on strawberry cause it can do that and also has other features that i care about baked in ootb. Deadbeef can also output directly through alsa and i liked it for the most part, but what i didn't like was that things like mpris support wasn't baked in, so i would have to mess with plugins. I don't know if there are any other players that can output directly through alsa, those are the only two that i could find so far.
I love rhythym box, but had an issue getting it to show grillo dlna media shares, had to add dleyna packages and dleyna-grillo then everything was discoverable