Hello guys,
I’m looking for a music player, I have checked some wikis but none of those give me their personal opinion of the music players thus I would like to know your experience. Currently I am using musikcube as I just though it would look since since it can use your terminal colorscheme and I have also used Cue.
Anyway, what music player would you recommend for someone who has thousands of songs and wishes to create playlists seamlessly. Thanks in advance
Edit: Gave most of your recommendations a fair shot. In the end I decided to go for MPD + Ymuse since it was exactly what I needed plus Ymuse is gtk so its automatically themed for me. Thank You All Guys!
fair to say I was Ymused…
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 17•25 days ago
i dont believe in streaming of any kinda, my data is local
I don’t know why but this made me want to play that Windows pinball game like the old times
- Kualk ( @Kualk@lemm.ee ) 7•25 days ago
Jellyfin, i own my streaming
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 2•24 days ago
This is what a NAS + Plex/Jellyfin is for.
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 5•24 days ago
uhg plex? no way. i cant imagine any self hosters choosing plex
- Katlah ( @eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•25 days ago
I use Strawberry personally.
- 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) English3•25 days ago
If there’s any other Cantata enjoyers reading this thread while feeling sad that it’s not maintained anymore, Strawberry is the closest alternative.
- Takios ( @Takios@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•25 days ago
I’d been using Cantata for many years but recently switched to Strawberry. It’s pretty good, the dynamic playlist feature is the closest I have found to cantata’s though it still behaves a bit differently in details which is a bit annoying :/
- 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) English3•25 days ago
I too have noticed a number of minor behavioral differences that I’ve found annoying, but it is what it is. This was the closest I could find to an active fork of Cantata, but nothing has been released at this time, though the dev has expressed interest in a Qt6 port.
- bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) Deutsch2•25 days ago
The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?
- Takios ( @Takios@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•25 days ago
You can set certain filters and it will automatically fill the playlist with tracks matching those filters. For example I have a smart playlist set to contain all tracks that I rated 3 stars or higher.
- HakFoo ( @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•25 days ago
There are some canned choices like “50 newest tracks”.
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) English8•25 days ago
Audacious with winamp skins.
- bastonia ( @bastonia@lemmy.ml ) 1•25 days ago
I was actually looking to use Winamp. Does this skin makes it look exactly like Winamp? How do I get it?
- Piwix ( @Piwix@lemm.ee ) 1•24 days ago
Dont have it in front of me so instructions might be off, but Audacious can load any winamp skin you download, it is available as an option in the customization settings. You might have to drop it into a skins system folder on audacious, but winamp skins are one of the theme options you can pick on audacious. Looks just like winamp but the backend stuff is different (right click menu’s, etc.)
- m4 ( @m4@kbin.social ) 7•25 days ago
As any person that lives under a rock I barely blinked and everyone was using streaming services while I kept half of my hard drive full of pirated mp3 and never got to understand why people fell for that trap. I really like MPD, though when it goes yolo it’s a pain in the butt to re-configure it.
I used ncmpcpp for like 10 years (or even more, but I can’t recall) but only a couple years ago re-discovered ncmpc and liked its minimalism (compared to ncmpcpp, that is). Even wrote a couple stupid patches to change the default progress bar.
But a few weeks ago learned about mmtc. Which is written in rust.
I didn’t have rust installed and the 12 GB of RAM weren’t enough to compile rust in my Gentoo box so I used this as an excuse to buy more RAM. And then compiled rust and it took a bit more of an hour so I could use this shiny “new” MPD player. Only to discover its so minimal it doesn’t have an database update function - the author literally says you have to set a key combination to call mpc to do so.
My family fell for it, and it is really hard to convince them otherwise.
- pimeys ( @pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ) 6•25 days ago
Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.
- Kualk ( @Kualk@lemm.ee ) 3•25 days ago
Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.
For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.
For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.
With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.
Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin
Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/
- AVincentInSpace ( @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ) English6•25 days ago
I’m a big fan of MPD since it runs in the background and can be remote controlled from other devices in the house. Also supports every format under the sun up to and including chiptunes. May or may not be useful to you though.
- airikr ( @airikr@lemmy.ml ) 5•25 days ago
I found QMMP few years ago. As a fan of Winamp, I haven’t looked back yet. QMMP is compatible with Winamp skins too.
- Azzk1kr ( @Azzk1kr@feddit.nl ) English2•25 days ago
Wow I forgot I once made a DragonBall Z skin for winamp. It’s still there :D Blast from the past!!
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 1•25 days ago
thats actually what this is, qmmp
- Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 4•25 days ago
No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)
oh man, that not even my “Today I’m feeling overwhelmed by my emotions so I cue my emotional playlist till I figure out a rational plan” But thanks anyway :)
- flamingos-cant ( @flamingos@feddit.uk ) English4•25 days ago
Lollypop, it’s a bit dated in terms of design for a GNOME app but it has all the features you could want. Can’t comment on playlists though, I have never used playlists and honestly don’t get the point of them.
I was like you, did not get the point of playlists until I got into techno and some other genres that most people would consider “trashy”. Plus there are some collections of Movies/Games that fit nice into a playlist. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I will check it now :) .
- Dreyns ( @Dreyns@lemmy.ml ) 4•25 days ago
I’m using Clementine for now it has nice management features, it’s overall pretty great. Only downside is that some minor gestures are broken and the UI is not really pretty ’
- kirbowo808 ( @kirbowo808@kbin.social ) 10•25 days ago
I would personally recommend Strawberry if anything since development of Clementine has been dead for a long while now, whilst it’s also of fork of Clementine too with frequent updates.
- Dreyns ( @Dreyns@lemmy.ml ) 3•25 days ago
Oohhh i’ll surely check this out ! Thanks ! (I prefer strawberrys to Clementines anyway)
yep, it does not have the looks. hehe, seems alright to me though.
- cirdanlunae ( @cirdanlunae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•25 days ago
I’m a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly…)
Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it’s nobody’s business
- Marty_TF ( @Marty_TF@lemmy.zip ) 3•25 days ago
i selfhost navidrome and use feishin on linux desktop, and symfonium on mobile.
- zod000 ( @zod000@lemmy.ml ) 3•24 days ago
Probably a bit late, but I really like Quod Libet. It is very extensible, runs light, has excellent tagging and filtering, and just feels similar enough to how I set up my foobar2000.
- harsh3466 ( @harsh3466@lemmy.ml ) 2•25 days ago
Currently running Navidrome on my server and using substreamer on mobile, with the webui on desktop.
- Shareni ( @Shareni@programming.dev ) 2•25 days ago
Better search, I remember someone asking the same question recently. If I remember correctly, the general consensus was mpv + different frontends.