Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I’d ask here for suggestions first. Features I’m looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:
- Music folder can be anywhere, not only ~/Music
- In the list of songs by a given artist, I can sort by album year, but the tracks within each album stay in the correct order
- The player remembers where I left off the next time I open it
I’m using Rhythmbox and it’s great but unfortunately it doesn’t do #3 (if I missed some setting let me know please).
Thanks in advance!
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I use Lollypop
mpd + ncmpcpp
I use Gapless. it’s pretty simple, but i mostly use it because it doesn’t look like absolute buns. i think it has what you want.
yt-dlp + vlc/mpv-cli and a terrabyte of ssd.
say no to the cloud, the seas are far comfier
Tauon has been great.
AIMP Linux native version has been released, worth a try
Elisa, from kde
You can have a look at this list : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
Amarok if you have a really large collection.
Someone mentioned Immich recently and it sounded like the cool kids are using it now, so maybe it’s worth looking into. I’m just a cavedweller and use command line mplayer, but given all the song metadata, the features you mention are pretty easy to do. Is every song necessarily on an album though?
I’m just a cavedweller
Did I hear rock’n’stone?
If you don’t rock n’ stone you ain’t goin home
There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.
If you like the command line aesthetic… Auditorium.
Or Kew
I use the SMplayer, it’s IMHO the best Media Player. Capable of streaming, even YouTube, all needed Codecs for practically any mediaformats, portable version.
https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer
What about Navidrome as a server and Feishin as the client.
Or my second backup system mpd + rmpc (terminal music player with artwork support)
I’m currently using Strawberry. Before that Deadbeef (was perfectly happy with Deadbeaf, just tried something different). MPD with Cantata was on the cards but not got to it yet.
