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?

  • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
    27·
    10 months 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
      6·
      10 months 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·
        10 months 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·
      10 months ago

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

  • eksb@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    10 months 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.

  • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
    151·
    10 months ago

    I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that spotify sucks, they hate artists but love Joe Rogan. If you can’t buy albums via bandcamp, Tidal offers quality and royalties far superior to Spottily. You can transfer your playlist in a few clicks and the price is almost identical (6 accounts for like $15/m).

    • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      Thr issue with spotify I have is only one. Its pretty good at predicting new songs with radio that I may like and I usually use the radio feature as I dont like to repeat my own playlists over and over.

      • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        Tidal’s algorythm is excellent for suggestions and the radio feature works well. I wasn’t sure at first but after a few months of listening to my stuff, Tidal strated to get really good at suggestions. My only issue left is how picky the search engine is Any spelling mistake will get you no results, but I can live with that. I work in studio environnement so getting access to uncompressed master files is huge for me.

        • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 months ago

          I gave it a short try just to see if my fav artists are there. Yes. Didnt expect this. Also feels much more serious than spotify. I will see if the algorithm does its job.

          Its weird how at first it only displayed music I would never listen to or is not near the artists I selected at the beginning. I guess I need to listen and favoritize them. And wait?..

          Edit: It got a bit better over time. But there are a few songs still missing on Tidal 💀

    • visnae@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      One Swedish company for another. Joke aside, isn’t the whole problem with royalties in the music scene still the issue that the record labels taking 90% of profits?

    • greencactus@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      But didn’t they had the issue with supporting MQA, which kinda was a scam? As far as I know they now switched to FLAC, but it still feels a bit weird.

      • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah MQA felt indeed bit of a weird for a lossy codec. FLAC is a real lossless format that’s been around for a long time, I’m glad they now use it. I like the fact that Tidal can be set to different quality on wi-fi vs phone data. Anyway, Tidal is still a buisness with only profit as a goal, but they give 3 times more to artists. Best way to support artist will always be by going to shows and buying albums and merchs, but most people wants a streaming sevice so IMO Tidal is the best right now. One day maybe Funkwhale or another decentralized option will offer a real revenu model for artists.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      mpd is the best music player on any system

      I’ve started using Cantata as a graphical front end, though

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      10 months 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·
        10 months 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·
          10 months 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·
            10 months 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·
        10 months ago

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

    • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      10 months 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

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.eeEnglish
    141·
    10 months ago

    I don’t really love any that I’ve tried so far, but I dislike Audacious the least. FLAC, Musepack, and ReplayGain support are requirements for my library.

    The last one I loved was foobar2000 on Windows, which supplanted Winamp. Linux UIs mostly feel a bit clunky by comparison. When the window has focus I like to have spacebar for pause/play, arrows up/down for primary gain, and arrows left/right for seek.

    • さようなら@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      YES, foobar2000!

      I also gravitated towards Audacious, but I foobar2000 was 10/10. Might consider running it through Wine, since Audacious is not quite there unfortunately

  • JbIPS@lemmy.world
    131·
    10 months ago

    I use CMUS because I mainly work within terminal, without a mouse, and the controls feel like Vim