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!
Edit: Best options from the comments were Strawberry and Quod Libet. I think I’ll go with Quod Libet. Thanks all for the suggestions.
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Another one for Audacious, especially with the Winamp themes. :-)
I also use mpv a lot when I need something from the terminal inside Tmux.
I use Lollypop
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.
I’ve seen Strawberry mentioned a lot but I’m definitely not a fan of its looks haha. Gapless on the other hand looks pretty sleek. It’s a bit less intuitive perhaps but I might give it a shot
AIMP Linux native version has been released, worth a try
mpd + ncmpcpp
Elisa, from kde
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Tauon has been great.
You can have a look at this list : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.
Amarok if you have a really large collection.
it’s not open source (it’s free though) and runs on linux through wine, but i like aimp.
I like Sayonara
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
I’ve been using Strawberry for my local music for a bit, might not be the most modern looking, but I’d say it’s decent. You can set folders to be scanned, and if you double click an artist’s folder in the “collection” menu it’ll add all their songs to the queue in whatever order you’re sorting by. It’ll at least remember the last played song, so just pressing play should start that song assuming you didn’t clear the queue. Doesn’t seem to remember how far into the song you were before closing it if that’s what you’re after though.
Yeah I like Strawberry too. It’s not flashy looking but it does everything I need.
Seconding strawberry 🍓
Seems promising, thanks! I don’t care about song position, just that it remembers which song.
