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DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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It 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've never found a playlist editor better than Winamp. Open a folder tree of all of my music and I could quickly enqueue an hour of exactly what I wanted to hear and if that changed, swap in a few tracks, or an entire album or act from a folder. It took a long time to build up my library and I knew it very, very well.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

#92

DeaDBeeF has been my goto for a while now because it's the only linux music player with the extremely specific feature I used in winamp: enqueue is an arbitrary list so you can have a playlist, leave it in order and/but/then play a song multiple times in a row. everyone else it's a toggle so you enqueue a song and then enqueue again and it removes it; if you want to listen to a song multiple times before moving on yo…

Does it have "Stop after current track"?

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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post #54

It 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.

Does that mean you need to click on the next song to play ever ~3m ? Because that sounds worse than having to flip the vinyl every ~5 songs.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

#94

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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.

Does that mean you need to click on the next song to play ever ~3m ? Because that sounds worse than having to flip the vinyl every ~5 songs.

It depends. In short, in that workflow, yes. But that's normally because I'll think of a song or get one stuck in my head I want to hear, as I don't listen to music all day.

You can also multiselect files or folders to open as a playlist, if that's your thing.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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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.

I've really been liking plexamp on my phone & desktop. It's not perfect & I've recently swapped to just using an iPod but it was good while I was using it.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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It's amazing how bad software developers are at naming their projects. At least this one is unique enough to be searchable, and could probably be SEO'ed above the computer lore (indeed, at least for me it's already #1 for "deadbeef" on the Google SERP). The worst are when they pick a generic English word for a project that has nothing to do with that word. I'm not going to name and shame, but there are so many exampl…

It's because we don't care, labels are arbitrary and if your app is any good you can call it Chimpanzee Hot Dog Fart and people will still use it. Honestly, my personal stretch goal for my dev career is to invent an app that's so useful to corporate America as to be indispensable and then call it ThumbBum just to force people to reference it in professional contexts. "Jared I need you to get on ThumbBum right now. Li…

This is exactly why Terry Gilliam named his production company Poo Poo Pictures. He liked the idea of studio executives having to ask their assistants "Did the Poo Poo memo come in yet?"

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

#98
post #48

> runs on GNU/Linux distributions, macOS, Windows, *BSD, OpenSolaris, and other UNIX-like systems. > Each platform’s native UI toolkit is employed to deliver the best experience > GTK2, GTK3, ALSA and PulseAudio on Unix systems If the author is here, please understand that there is no "native" UI toolkit for Linux or BSD. These platforms have several widely-used desktop environments, some of which use the Qt toolkit…

DeaDBeeF already has both GTK and Qt UI plugin options, so just use the one that’s most native to your desktop (GTK: GNOME/MATE/XFCE/Cinnamon, Qt: KDE/Trinity/LXQt). If those UIs aren’t sufficient for some reason, since they’re plugins they can be forked and tweaked or if one was so inclined, they could write a whole new UI plugin. No need to wait on the author.

And while it’s true that Qt fits into a GTK desktop better than the reverse, I still find myself preferring using apps written with the toolkit that matches the desktop in both cases.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Other 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

I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

#100

Other 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

You could add mine to that list: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
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