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!
Cantata.
Same here. Nothing even comes close, at least in my opinion - it’s comparable to foobar2000.
@WeAreAllOne @merci3 That’s my current player of choice on KDE. Sadly it’s no longer maintained. Hopefully some fork will succeed
I think I’ve read somewhere that there still is maintenance but can’t find it now. In any case Cantata works perfectly!
I’ve been a Linux user since 2005ish and a DJ since at least 2013. I’ve tried a lot of music players including Rythmbox. I settled on Clementine/Strawberry or Amorok, depending on use case. Haven’t used either of them recently.
With that said, there is no right answer. Find one you like!
I just looked up the initial release, it was in August 2001. I don’t remember the first time I used it, but it was probably 20 years ago. Still remains my favourite for the reasons you mentioned.
I’m just going to use this opportunity to publicly grieve again for Winamp fake becoming open-source: https://hackaday.com/2024/10/16/winamp-taken-down-too-good-for-this-open-source-world/
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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I think its almost perfect, just need a plugin to be able to show lyrics synchronised with the song
I’m happy with just reading lyrics on the browser lol
I’m old fashion, I put the synchronised subtitles on the mp3 files manually as a hobby, using Musicolet on Android, but I can see why is not a thing anymore
can anyone suggest a tool to re-assess all my ripped mp3s and flacs with artist/track title info? I ripped ages of music from CD, and at some point a lot of the data got dicked up.
Musicbrainz picard has an option to tag files based on acustic fingerprinting
TY!
I’ve been enjoying Tauon, it does the things I want
If you are an audiophile, nothing beat QuodLibet right now.
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Elisa is also decent if you use KDE, QuodLibet is more on the customizable side.
Are there any music players that will play my mp3s and stuff but also let me play audio from youtube or spotify without logging in? On android I use Musify, which does this but is a little wonky.
It’s an amazing music player and shit podcast app
Rhythmbox has been my main music app for over 15 years now. Every now and then I’ll check out other options but I always end up back after a couple days.
I do wish they would give the UI some attention. Nothing major, just a few visual tweaks to bring it inline with modern Gnome (the alternative toolbar plugin is really close)
I personally would like the album cover to be a bit larger
Same, I just really want the automatic playlists feature, but no other music players that look nice on gnome seem to have that. Pretty much all newish players are so minimal
TIL rhythmbox still exists.
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.
It literally hasn’t changed even a tiny bit since I first saw it in 2006 :)
I currently use Strawberry - a well maintained fork of the old Amarok player before they redone the UI for KDE 4. It does what I care the most:
- Tree view collection with artist -> album grouping
- Files view
- Lyrics
- Tag editor
- Queue
- Last, but definitely not least - gapless playback
Fork of Clementine you mean.
I am still using Clementine. Strawberry is missing some features.
