The thing that’s missing for me is discovery. Release Radar and the Discovery playlist and related artists on Spotify (for me) are currently top tier. I get introductions to artists no one else has with songs I often like. Last.fm used to do this? Maybe? But doesn’t seem like it anymore. Other streaming services, apple, tidal, quobuz, youtube, all seem lacking in one aspect or alter. Are there options on this?
DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
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Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#112> 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…
Consider that for many GTK is also native. Mate/Gnome has been a standard for many years. Personally I'm getting more problems with Qt apps than GTK. Especially: font rendering, once a year or so Qt apps revert to outline fonts (I use bitmap OTB fonts as desktop font - i like pixel perfect quality in small sizes) or worse stop rendering font at all and I get empy menus.
Second thing is IME support this also breaks very often on updates.
Why Qt neglects such basic things I don't know, but because of the above I cannot call Qt 'excellent'
Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#113DB is quite nice. Don't know if it still supports it but back in 2017-2019 it was possible to use terminal commands to control playback, similar to what one might use a more complex tool like mpd for, which I wrapped in Picolisp to be able to easily change the music without leaving the REPL and then hooked it up to a socket for remote control over the LAN.
Most of Linux based media players, including deadbeef, can be interacted with using MPRIS, a DBus interface, and there are multiple CLIs for sending/extracting information from them. I can recommend you the one I developed: https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-ctl , but there are others.
Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#114My go-to has been AIMP for years and it has the same set of features plus a bit nicer skins/UI. Also an android version with the same feature set sans audio conversion.
Also, last update was in December, not in 2023.
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#115It 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.
Infinite autoplay of stupid recommendations is so annoying too.
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#116Other 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
Musicbee is king!
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Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#117It 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.
Well I'm almost 50 and ripped my first (shit quality) 64kbps mp3 somewhere around 1998 or earlier. But I switched to a library view and stopped individually managing folders when iTunes first appeared (24 years ago?). I just concentrated on proper tagging, including mood and instrument. I spent that more time ripping CDs and using tag editors than worrying which folder they were in (but that took care of itself with good tags). With a library you can still play an album, or a whole artist catalog, but also a whole genre, a mood, all you top rated music, or an automatic playlist that plays your least recently played, or least played but highly rated music from a mood, instrument, genre etc etc.
These days I use musicbee which has extremely customizable views, so you can browse your music however you want. My wife tends to pick a specific album, whereas I tend to be in a specific music mood so I hunt around for tracks and make a two hour playlist for it. She'd be happy with folders probably but it would kill me not to be able to search for instruments and moods. How else are you going to get a trumpet and piano playlist? Remember every song name?
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Well I'm almost 50 and ripped my first (shit quality) 64kbps mp3 somewhere around 1998 or earlier. But I switched to a library view and stopped individually managing folders when iTunes first appeared (24 years ago?). I just concentrated on proper tagging, including mood and instrument. I spent that more time ripping CDs and using tag editors than worrying which folder they were in (but that took care of itself with…
> Remember every song name?
I know it's crazy, but yes! Nothing drives me crazier than seeing an actor and trying to remember where I saw him/her in before, and hearing a song I know but don't know the name.
I use Shazam liberally but it's pretty bad at the non mainstream stuff. I end up finding it with searches and screenshotting it for my reference.
Not that you asked any of this, but I -have- to know the name of a song I like.
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#119Other 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
museeks seems to be the only one with a nice gui. The rest looks like Win95 or worse.
Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
#120Other 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
I'd be curious to try it but I don't understand from the site whether it is mobile only. It claims that there is a utility to sync with desktop but then it doesn't run on desktop?