DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
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#82It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is just streaming everything off the net, no local storage required. (I'm writing this as a disapproving old geezer, just in case it wasn't clear.)
There's a large and growing number of music players for streaming from your own server. You get the best of both worlds by owning your music and having it accessible anywhere.
They are all so poorly written though.
None of the OSS media players come even remotely close to the UX of Spotify, and that's speaking as someone who has paid way too much for Roon because it's at least 80% of the way there.
Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#83It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is just streaming everything off the net, no local storage required. (I'm writing this as a disapproving old geezer, just in case it wasn't clear.)
I must be an even older geezer, as I detest all the late wave music players that became full screen things that load music from everywhere.
I organize my mp3s into folders by genre, then named by artist - title. To play one I double click it from the system file browser, and just want a tiny, og winamp style player to open and play that one song. Or multi select for an instant playlist.
Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#84Other fun music players: - https://foobar2000.org - https://volumio.org - http://rhythmbox.org - https://amarok.kde.org - https://cmus.github.io - https://museeks.io - https://fooyin.org - https://audacious-media-player.org - https://www.clementine-player.org
Just to add to the list: mpg123 [0]
It's not "ultimate" by any stretch, but it's a really good command-line mp3 player, and the one I use the most. It's been a long time since I've researched it, so there may be better ones out now.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Music players are a great example of a type of app that at first brush seems simple and difficult to do badly, but in reality is littered with subtleties and bits that hinge on the preferences of the user, all of which can make or break the app. Makes it easy to understand why there’s more players than can be counted but few worth using.
That's because they all try to be more than they should be. I don't need or want a visualization option. I don't need or want an equalizer. I don't need or want a library. Those functions properly belong in other places or in the waste bin. My music library is on my filesystem and is sorted and arranged as I prefer. When I want to play an album I drag it over to MPC-HC. When I want to create a custom playlist, I open…
Are you sure that you actually want to use a computer to play music?
Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#86It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is just streaming everything off the net, no local storage required. (I'm writing this as a disapproving old geezer, just in case it wasn't clear.)
I must be an even older geezer, as I detest all the late wave music players that became full screen things that load music from everywhere. I organize my mp3s into folders by genre, then named by artist - title. To play one I double click it from the system file browser, and just want a tiny, og winamp style player to open and play that one song. Or multi select for an instant playlist.
I do the same thing, and players (mostly on Android) that only support metadata-based browsing annoy me to no end. Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!
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#87My favorite Linux one these days: Gapless. (simple but beautiful)
https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.neithern.g4music
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#88If you are a KDE user, I highly recommend fooyin, which is essentially a Qt6 clone of Foobar2000: https://www.fooyin.org/
Off-topic, but Depeche Mode's Exciter came out in 2001!
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#89It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is just streaming everything off the net, no local storage required. (I'm writing this as a disapproving old geezer, just in case it wasn't clear.)
Plexamp is a good player for your local files (personal server) that you can stream.
I use it and it's mostly great, but the experience on Linux desktop isn't the best as it feels like primarily a mobile app.
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#90Some people I know love it but it just doesn't work for me in the way I use a music player. It's similar to foobar2000 in some ways which depending on your preferences can be good or bad. And the name is terrible. Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky. Quod Libet and Rythmbox would seem closer to my ideal interface-wise, but scored massive own goals they seemingly will never recover from. How in 2025 mu…
What your exact issues with quod libet? As someone who's main criteria were (1) replaygain support (2) good album artist sort and (3) simple interface, quod libet is where I landed.
What are the own goals you speak of?