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DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Post by tripflag »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #68

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 have very fond memories of XionPlayer; https://www.xionplayer.com/

The amount of visual flare that thing managed to produce in the heydays of WinXP was stunning, felt like operating a scifi-movie prop with all of the alphablended animations shooting out of the player window at times.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Post by timonofathens »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #68

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

The old Amarok was amazing. I still use Clementine to this day.

I just don't like the cover art manager, everything else is jut right for me.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Post by gitaarik »

briHass wrote: post #106
fluoridation wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I've been using Music Folder Player ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.zorillasoft... ) for over a decade for this very reason. I think Android has now made this type of player almost obsolete. Every app has its own file sandbox and apps must go through an abstraction for media that works poorly.

I use Foldplay

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pnhdroid.f...

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Post by kyorochan »

wang_li wrote: post #15
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #8

Earlier 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…

It sounds like you don't need or want a music player.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Post by graemep »

timonofathens wrote: post #122
renegat0x0 wrote: post #68

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

The old Amarok was amazing. I still use Clementine to this day. I just don't like the cover art manager, everything else is jut right for me.

I used to use Amarok. I switched to Quod Libet because its better for some genres - e.g. classical where I want to browse by composer, not performer.

Re: DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

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Post by ungut »

This one was always kind of buggy, it was hard to maintain my custom config and figure out which plugins actually worked. Stopped using DeaDBeeF after my similarly whimsical Linux ricing phase. Can't recommend :/
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