Doesn't even mention MOC.
The state of Linux music players in 2026
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Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It depends on the genre, I’d guess. For metal, there’s rarely continuous songs, mainly sometimes intro -> 1st proper song.
maybe not metal but the whole Offspring - Americana has this thing
It also happens for metal. I said "rare" ;) One might not encounter it.
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#93Complaining about predatory business practices while dumping all your money to Taylor Swift is like giving the homeless guns and complaining about rising murder rates.
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#94I have lots of music in exotic formats and an installation of foobar2000 that plays all of them. I keep using foobar2000 even though I switched to Fedora KDE because I don't see any alternative that will allow me to play music without forcing me to convert everything. Also, I have an Android app to control foobar2000 from my phone.
Big downsides are that scaling is broken on Wine so the UI is tiny. Moreover, whenever I manually change tracks using the mouse, it lets out a massive fart before continuing normally. But I can live with that.
Hmmm, now that I think of it - I've never made any GUI app. Suppose I want to write my own music player, what's the best way to approach this?
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#95The thing I don't understand is alphabetic ordering of albums, which is the default most everywhere. Albums of a particular artist should obviously be ordered by when they were released (I don't care whether from newest or from oldest).
It appears I'm an alien: almost none of the music players' authors care about this - they happily show albums from A to Z.
I use Clementine which can be set up to order albums by year. Any other options?
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#96The thing I don't understand is alphabetic ordering of albums, which is the default most everywhere. Albums of a particular artist should obviously be ordered by when they were released (I don't care whether from newest or from oldest). It appears I'm an alien: almost none of the music players' authors care about this - they happily show albums from A to Z. I use Clementine which can be set up to order albums by year…
It's probably not gonna help you, but that's possible in Music (macOS). There are two sorting criteria, so you could choose to sort by artist first, then for each album of a given artist sort by year. Or you can sort all albums by year, then inside each year alphabetically (album or artist) if that's what you meant.
It's a simple option to implement. But most developers without UI skills don't seem to think about stuff like that.
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#97Something that wasn't mentioned in the article - if you're coming from Windows and using Foobar2000, you'll want DeadBeeF https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
I'll throw out Fooyin for QT
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
My own software on a raspberrypi, a bluetooth receiver on my yamaha amp and my phone between the two. Simple setup, a joy to use.
Can you elaborate what app (?) you use on your phone?
I made my own web app using boring technology(1). It's not available anywhere since it's completely tailored to my own needs so probably not useful to anyone else. Also some parts of the code need cleanup and there is no documentation.
(1) SQLite/Django/Bootstrap5/Unpoly app. SQLite is used for all the data and the full text search. Huey is used for background tasks. Tinytags gets metadata from audio files. LastFM API provides similar artists functionality. YT-DLP is used to fetch music that is not easy (for me) to get (no bandcamp, only on streaming, old stuff not easy to find...). Bootstrap provides a clean look and the usual responsive stuff. Dropbox API is used to maintain a copy of the music files in my dropbox account. The app currently handles a collection of 70k files and runs on a raspberrypi behind the caddy web server.
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#99For me peak musicplayer UI is still my customized foobar2000 setup on Windows. I need a waveform, a playhead, a good browser that can do both metadata based libraries and dumb folders fast and without lagging, a way to build/save/view/load playlists and a way to queue songs. Most players are just too basic or make the wrong or to many assumptions about my collection. Or the interface is just too cute and dysfunctiona…
I don't know how foobar2000 somehow got it so right so long ago and no one is replicating it making me stuck with it. I don't like the feeling of being stuck with software like this... What if it is abandonded or something...
Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026
#100Surprised there's no mention of the tried-and-true VLC.
VLC does not show up when searching for "music player" on nixpkgs [1] which is what was used. Searching for "media player" does [2].
[1] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&query=mus...
[2] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&query=med...