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DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by pratikss »

grinchygrinch wrote: post #37

I sigh every time someone says deadbeef is great alternative to foobar2000. The greatest thing about foobar2000 is media library which deadbeef doesn't even have. Actually, no other player on the planet can compete with foobar's media library. I'm not sure what kind of magic it uses, but the second I put new files in directories where my music is, foobar2000 sees it and I can access it in foobar. Sometimes, I listen…

Let me introduce you to Tauon Music Box https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

It's Linux only and it's amazing. It does not automatically re-scan the folder for music but it's instant, may be in future it can do that.

I'm yet to find a music player that is so simple, uncluttered and powerful.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by amlib »

brnt wrote: post #48
amlib wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Closest thing to foobar2000 is Clementine, an Amarok 1 fork... The media library features are almost as good, if not for a nasty bug where using the filter in the library "tree view" can lock the app for many seconds for no reason. The normal search window/panel is not affected and is always instantaneous tough. I've tested dozens of media players on linux, most choke on my huge library, but clementine is perfectly c…

Actually, the closest thing in media library regard is Quodlibet, and its under active development.

I would agree with that, and indeed I used it for many years, were it not for it's performance. It's just atrocious under a big library. I would constantly get assaulted with what I could only assume were garbage collection pauses, the interface would constantly freeze in the most inopportune times.

It also had a pretty silly bug that went unfixed the entire time I used it where it would (rarely, triggered while moving around the playlist) say it's playing song X but in reality it's playing song Y.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by je42 »

misterS wrote: post #45
amlib wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Closest thing to foobar2000 is Clementine, an Amarok 1 fork... The media library features are almost as good, if not for a nasty bug where using the filter in the library "tree view" can lock the app for many seconds for no reason. The normal search window/panel is not affected and is always instantaneous tough. I've tested dozens of media players on linux, most choke on my huge library, but clementine is perfectly c…

There's https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ , a fork of Clementine, apparently created due to Clementine's inactivity. I've used it on and off on MacOS, but had some nasty locks which crashed the application. But speaking of Clementine: I'm amazed that development seems to have picked up again, commits are happening on Github ( https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine ) Last time I checked the repo it was s…

jup. unfortunately, strawberry has some gtk6 issues after they upgraded. with gtk6 dark skins seem to be broken.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by greatquux »

jasperry wrote: post #44

Could anyone comment on how deadbeef compares to audacious on Linux?

I'd be interested in that too, since audacious is what I usually run when I just want to listen to some random file, or live music where I need gapless mp3 support (what other players support it?) If I want access to my library I've been using Strawberry for that which is pretty good.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by Schlaefer »

je42 wrote: post #54
misterS wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ , a fork of Clementine, apparently created due to Clementine's inactivity. I've used it on and off on MacOS, but had some nasty locks which crashed the application. But speaking of Clementine: I'm amazed that development seems to have picked up again, commits are happening on Github ( https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine ) Last time I checked the repo it was s…

jup. unfortunately, strawberry has some gtk6 issues after they upgraded. with gtk6 dark skins seem to be broken.

Strawberry Qt6 looks fine here. Anything particular?

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by totetsu »

pjc50 wrote: post #42
grinchygrinch wrote: post #37

I sigh every time someone says deadbeef is great alternative to foobar2000. The greatest thing about foobar2000 is media library which deadbeef doesn't even have. Actually, no other player on the planet can compete with foobar's media library. I'm not sure what kind of magic it uses, but the second I put new files in directories where my music is, foobar2000 sees it and I can access it in foobar. Sometimes, I listen…

> I'm not sure what kind of magic it uses, but the second I put new files in directories where my music is, foobar2000 sees it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/obtain... ; the Linux equivalent is "inotify". > I press 'o' on a track and it opens a file explorer in the location where the track is located and it also selects it https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13680415/how-to-open-exp... On Linux…

i always just used foobar in wine. I wonder if its so quick when doing so.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by swixi »

antihero wrote: post #32
Toutouxc wrote: post #5

I used to be a huge foobar2000 fan with a huge FLAC library. A bit later I got used to iTunes, because there was no good foobar2000 alternative on macOS, and I dialed back the library. Then I said fuck it and moved all the way over to Spotify, trading music quality (and UI) for discoverability. And I don't see myself going back.

Don't delete your music man, I "slimmed" down my collection from 1TB+ to 200GB by deleting all the more "common" stuff I could easily find on Spotify only to realise that the versions I had (the original, pure, untouched music) was only available as fucking remasters etcetera. I miss Oink/What.CD.

> I "slimmed" down my collection from 1TB+ to 200GB by deleting all the more "common" stuff I could easily find on Spotify only to realise that the versions I had (the original, pure, untouched music) was only available as fucking remasters etcetera

Yeah, you get the version they choose. Admittedly, this is not something I run into often, but for example: the stereo remasters of the early Beatles albums sound terrible to me with headphones because everything is hard-panned (e.g. vocals are only in the right channel). These albums were originally mixed in mono and sound way better that way. It's impossible to listen to these albums in mono on Spotify even though digital versions do exist.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by egypturnash »

benrbray wrote: post #11

How is the tagging system in DeaDBeef? My music library has grown exponentially in the past year or so, due to boredom during covid, and I've come to the conclusion that playlists (as in, static lists of music files that you need to update manually) are functionally useless for large libraries. What I've been looking for, but so far haven't been able to find, is a system that creates playlists from queries to my musi…

iTunes does this. It calls them “smart playlists” and they are one of the reasons I don’t use other players. My copy spends most of its time wandering through a smart playlist designed to not play anything played or skipped within the last couple of weeks.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by marcodiego »

marcodiego wrote: post #47
benrbray wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I only very recently started expanding my music horizons, but here are some I picked randomly from my library. Lately I'm into desert blues / enka / math rock / city pop. Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACZA9dGvV4) Mdou Moctar - Tarhatazed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZvPoE0EH1o) 椎名林檎 – 人生は夢だらけ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnLHd2Ei3Y) Tatsuro Yamashita - LOVE SPACE (https://w…

Classic forró and "japanese math rock" that is what I'd call eclecticism.

Geographically speaking, these styles are almost perfect antipodes.
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