Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It’s also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I’m curious what other people are using these days. What’s your favorite player?

  • Mx. Nichole@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 days ago

    I have been bouncing between CLI/GUI and several there of. On the CLI side I’m flipping back and forth between cmus and musikcube. I prefer cmus as it seems faster and has vim key motions an commands, but I like the TUI of musikcube better, its just got soo much extra stuff I don’t use. I’d love to find a rust rewrite of it that trimmed out the web-server and most of the plugins as I never use them (and yes all you suckless heads I know, I could edit source and rebuild it but… Ain’t nobody got time for that).

    Another point for these is being able to detach them, both work fine in detached sessions so I can start an album or playlist and just say that’s it, back to work. I use Zellij but I imagine using tmux or whatever would work just as well.

    Now as for graphical apps I tend to use Amberol or Rhythmbox depending on what I’m doing, honestly both go fairly unused most the time. But I like having options, Amberol is more geared towards playlist style music so mixtapes or albums not shuffle all. Whereas Rhythmbox will let me just click my library and go … both have good integrations to the widget stack in gnome and cinnamon as well as bars like nwg panel and Waybar.

    Ooh had a fun though and tested. Musikcube works better in tty mode. So I will sometimes open second users in tty mode with ctrl+alt+f(1-5) or even clone a session into tty mode. and i just checked and cmus doesn’t draw the whole screen only whats highlighted. so if you have to drop back to shell or something musikcube is the better option… although i imagine if you’re in that situation music players and such are not high on the priority list :/ .

  • eksb@programming.devEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    mpd + ncmpc

    I am but a simple man. All my music is FLAC. It is arranged neatly in folders. I just want to select an album to play. I do not need album covers, playlists, search, streaming, tags, lyrics, analyzers, or scrobbling.

  • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 year ago

    CMUS! I’m surprised more people aren’t using this. It’s very cool, ultra lightweight, and easy to use. Maybe I just like stuff that runs in the console.

    • Jack3G@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 year ago

      cmus is great, it checks all my boxes, and is much easier to work with than mpd imo. The only downside for me is that I can’t see any of the cover art :(

      • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There is no great/simple linux music player with proper cover display. Eliza was so wonky when I tried it months ago, the most simple functions didn’t work properly (like sorting for release year etc.)

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also the hotkeys are terrible, I really really want to use it properly, but those shortcuts are horrid.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      I feel this. If you could right click to interact with the text objects, then this combo would basically feel like foobar2000 for linux. I’m old enough to have missed how great foobar2000 felt after WinAmp started to get bloated (back before I got my hands on some Linux ISOs), so MPD + ncmpcpp just felt so refreshingly stripped down and a little nostalgic. I just fucking hate having to memorize a bunch of non-intuitive hotkey combos to do anything. Probably the same reason I’ve never bothered to properly learn Vim.

      • TheEntity@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        I’m an Emacs graybeard, so complex keybindings don’t scare me. My problem with ncmpcpp is twofold:

        1. It relies on MPD which is always a PITA to properly configure. Pulseaudio always managed to make it not work on a fresh system. Hopefully with Pipewire it’ll be better.
        2. The config format make no sense whatsoever. Especially the one with keybindings. It’s so cryptic I just stopped trying to understand it. Again, I’m an Emacs graybeard, to stress it as a point of reference.
        • tal@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 year ago

          MPD + ncmpcpp, I hate both and I’m yet to find anything better.

          I’m an Emacs graybeard

          Emacs does have a music player, emms, which is what I use.

          M-x package-install RET emms RET

          • TheEntity@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m aware but thank you. I’ve tried it before and didn’t like it. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, though I don’t see much benefit in tying my music player to Emacs.

      • dan@upvote.au
        1·
        1 year ago

        When I’m using Windows, I still use foobar2000 for listening to radio streams.

    • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      My fave too as it’s closest to foobar, critically with the tagging interface I prefer. Have you added any additional plugins to your install? I tried adding a few (music library, Discord Rich Presence) but must be the right sort of stupid not to understand the instructions. facepalm

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Rhythmbox. It was pre-installed on Ubuntu back when I was on Ubuntu, and I kinda just got used to it. Strawberry looks really cool though, I may have to give it a try

    • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Rhythmbox is great and works well for editing tags for my 15,000 track library. I went to Lollypop for a while trying to get some more features but I ended up back at Rhythmbox.