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 😆
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!
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.
I really really don’t get why you just can’t organize your music in plain old folders with rhythmbox. Not Playlists, not Meta data. Just folders. Ist it that exotic? Is it that hard to implement?
My musics are organized by metadata, playlists AND folders. I currently got about 1980+ songs locally, and felt like I needed all of these methods to keep them organized and good looking
And is there any way to play songs by folder with rhythmbox yet? Haven’t looked into it for a while.
I’d rather use Lollypop.
I am also a fan. Nicely shows album art, and has the “play similar” feature which I find to be very useful. I just pick one album I know I want to listen to, and it chooses the subsequent albums.
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’m currently using Sayonara, but Rythmbox is perfectly fine too.
I really just want a media player that:
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Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)
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Has ReplayGain support (lots do)
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Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)
Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.
Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.
Clementine does all those things.I may have mistaken what you are asking for. Are you wanting a cover larger than a thumbnail in the “catalog” section?Yes, bigger than that. I have tried Clementine.
Got it. My initial thought was you wanted to see the cover when it was playing. This makes more sense now. I don’t use covers in the catalog part because my library is way too big. I would never be able to scroll through them all!
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Command line mplayer has been plenty for me.
TIL rhythmbox still exists.
I used it on Mint. I liked it. I use Strawberry now because it can bypass software decoding and output audio directly to my DAC.
Been liking Amberol lately, but it’s extremely simple. Nice UI though.
I enjoyed it at first, but it was too simple for my personal use. What it lacked the most for me was a playlist management, I didn’t find any option for that feature
Absolutely classic music player. The iTunes 1.0 UI pattern, which was pre-enshittification. To my eyes, I still don’t think I’ve 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.
mpd for me
Fooyin is also a solid choice.
the UI kinda looks like a QT based Rhythmbox. I’ll give it a try later 😀
I can’t decide between Fooyin and Rhythmbox. I’d love to stick with Rhythmbox, but I really miss waveform view.
It is heavily inspired by foobar2000, one of the GOAT under windows IMHO.
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 😁 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.
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.