DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems
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DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems
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#2deadbeef is good. took a lot of setting up to get it the way I like it.
I always found things to nitpick about music players, at least with deadbeef you fight with the layout editor then you have noone to nitpick but yourself
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#3I have been looking for a good media player for m4a files with lots of tracks. This is the only one I have found that supports titles for all tracks correctly.
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#4I used Foobar2000 for years in order to keep using OzoneMP after Winamp had fallen off the wagon. Based on what I remember of the software license for plugins (modified BSD with a no reverse engineering clause added if I recall correctly), it seemed clear that the devs felt that there was some secret property to their implementation that they wanted to protect. It wasn't obvious to me what that was, though, beyond maybe replaygain or floating point audio. Was there something specific? Does DeaDBeeF player also provide this alleged advantage?
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#5I used to be a huge foobar2000 fan with a huge FLAC library. A bit later I got used to iTunes, because there was no good foobar2000 alternative on macOS, and I dialed back the library. Then I said fuck it and moved all the way over to Spotify, trading music quality (and UI) for discoverability. And I don't see myself going back.
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#6Looks great, foobar2000 was my player of choice many years ago on Windows.
But these days I prefer the simplicity of mpv even for audio. It supports most audio formats, M3U playlists and HTTP, since I don't keep music locally anymore, and shows metadata and album art just fine, with a consistent UI across platforms and very lightweight on resources. Turns out I don't need much more than that.
It's even extensible with Lua, so scrobbling is also supported: https://github.com/l29ah/w3crapcli/blob/master/last.fm/mpv-l... .
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#7I used to be a huge foobar2000 fan with a huge FLAC library. A bit later I got used to iTunes, because there was no good foobar2000 alternative on macOS, and I dialed back the library. Then I said fuck it and moved all the way over to Spotify, trading music quality (and UI) for discoverability. And I don't see myself going back.
If a music streaming service came out that had a good API for integrating with 3rd party UIs I would switch in a heartbeat. For now Spotify is still a better experience than maintaining my own collection though.
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#8When I switched to Linux, I installed Wine just so I can use foobar2000. The main things I wanted was multiple playlists, shuffle (which should remain in that order until changed again - one of the reasons to shift from other players) and play again exactly from where it was left off on a reboot.
Once I came to know about deadbeef and found these features were present, I switched to it.
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#9I used to be a huge foobar2000 fan with a huge FLAC library. A bit later I got used to iTunes, because there was no good foobar2000 alternative on macOS, and I dialed back the library. Then I said fuck it and moved all the way over to Spotify, trading music quality (and UI) for discoverability. And I don't see myself going back.
If a music streaming service came out that had a good API for integrating with 3rd party UIs I would switch in a heartbeat. For now Spotify is still a better experience than maintaining my own collection though.
For what it’s worth, Roon + Tidal has been exactly that for me and since I started using both together, I’ve heard (and subsequently purchased) more good music in the four months I’ve been using in than in the four years before.
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#10I used to be a huge foobar2000 fan with a huge FLAC library. A bit later I got used to iTunes, because there was no good foobar2000 alternative on macOS, and I dialed back the library. Then I said fuck it and moved all the way over to Spotify, trading music quality (and UI) for discoverability. And I don't see myself going back.
If a music streaming service came out that had a good API for integrating with 3rd party UIs I would switch in a heartbeat. For now Spotify is still a better experience than maintaining my own collection though.
No, it really isn't. The time you spend with UI is much greater than time you spend managing your collection so bad UI is far worse than a couple of evenings getting your collection in order. Also you get to enjoy your favorite albums not getting taken down without warning or reason.