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The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by davidgerard »

rhdunn wrote: post #100
yellowapple wrote: post #80

Surprised 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...

This still comes across as ignorance of the area. How does one miss VLC?

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by slyfox125 »

Avshalom wrote: post #97
maqp wrote: post #3

Something 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

Fooyin is great. For those spoiles by foobar2000, there are no alternatives.

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by w4rh4wk5 »

kataklasm wrote: post #23
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #9

Maybe it's just me, but I still like the plainness of MPD + ncmpcpp.

Same here! But I recently switched from ncmpcpp to rmpc, which is a much more modern client! A lot more (easily) customizable compared to ncmpcpp as well.

Thanks, gotta check that out!

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by t-3 »

tasuki wrote: post #95

The 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 possible in mpd+ncmpcpp, but I just encode this in the filesystem hierarchy. My library is basically setup like music/artist/year album/trackno trackname. I had to spend a few hours going through by hand with perl-rename to normalize things, but after that it was great (I don't trust automatic tools to do these things after bad experiences with beetz and similar).

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by NoGravitas »

amazari wrote: post #47

Came here to note that contrary to what is said here, Lollypop is not "new", nor is it representative of current so-called "GNOME-isms". It uses UI idioms and technologies (gtk 3) of its mileage, 2017.

A lot of its UI idioms are quite unique to Lollypop, as well.

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by [deleted] »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #4

I'm a little surprised that anyone still plays music on their computer. Surely now we've moved into the era where we all have dedicated devices for that. Your phone for 99.9% of people, I'd imagine. And for the audiophiles there's a bunch of very high quality DAPs to pick from.

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Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by hulitu »

iberator wrote: post #89

Imo last good Linux player was... XMMS. Never understood why it went away from most distributions forever.

> Never understood why it went away from most distributions forever.

CADT.

"Because of the release of GNOME 2.0 and 2.2, and the lack of interest in maintainership of GNOME 1.4, the gnome-core product is being closed. If you feel your bug is still of relevance to GNOME 2, please reopen it and refile it against a more appropriate component. Thanks... "

Xmms uses gtk 2 i think. GTK is now at version 4 or 5.

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