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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 anjel »

AIMP3[1] for windows is a fine Winamp style music player with many features beyond winamp, eg. Music library / excellent file format conversion. It has a platinum rating on WineHQ[2] and anecdotally works completely for me on Arch Linux with wine including plugins and (old skool)visualizations. AIMP3 also has a linux variant, but its got a much shorter feature list and is in a slow dev cycle, not ready for primetime.

[1] https://www.aimp.ru/?do=download&os=windows

[2] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by mmh0000 »

starky wrote: post #146

This is frankly one of the areas of Linux that I'm most disappointed about. I tried a number of these options for local players and found them all to be terrible. Especially considering that I really like the specific layout I've used for well over a decade on Foobar2000. I actually ended up installing Foobar2000 through Wine because of my frustration, only to find that it wouldn't start reliably.

Foobar2000 is ... tricky through WINE. Though I will proudly say that I did it, it took a lot of research into obscure wine configs. These are my notes from last time I did it, maybe you'll find them helpful:

  ```bash
  export WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/.wine-foobar2000  
  winetricks allfonts  
  for packg in vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun2012 vcrun2013 vcrun2015 vcrun2017 vcrun2019 vcrun2022; do winetricks -q $packg; done 
  winecfg # Set Windows version to 11
  ```

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by aorth »

puika wrote: post #5

How is Quod Libet not here? Cross platform and its plugin system should be enough reason on its own https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet

For local music it's my preferred client as well. I've set mine up to resemble the old iTunes interface, with three panes: artist (left), album (right), and song (bottom), and explicitly configured it to use album artists instead featuring blah blah.

For network-based music Navidrome is very good. A good client for that on desktop is https://github.com/victoralvesf/aonsoku. It's Electron, but I don't mind. Ironically, it was Tauri based until a few months ago and that was much heavier and buggy, which is what people complain about with Electron.

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by p0w3n3d »

Semaphor wrote: post #92
p0w3n3d wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe not metal but the whole Offspring - Americana has this thing

It also happens for metal. I said "rare" ;) One might not encounter it.

Still when listening to intro -> 1st song I have this tension in me building up, asking myself "when will the stutter come up? Is it now? Or later? Or was it there at all?". Like a torture

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by snapplebobapple »

tonoto wrote: post #150

Music Assistant ( https://github.com/music-assistant ) is really onto something good, and it looks like they are working towards native clients. Multi room, streaming, lyrics, DSP, catalogue of local media.

I came to say this too. It was super easy to get sendspin working as a systemd service on my bazzite based jellyfin media player computers hooked to my tvs and it works decently well. If I can figure out how to get bazzite to output audio on one hdmi port and video on the other so I can split the audio to my speaker system even when the tv is off it would basically be perfect.

Once the esp32 based stuff matures and people start selling competitively priced enclosure/speaker/esp32 combos in the sonos play 1- play 5 style it's going to be amazing I think.

Re: The state of Linux music players in 2026

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Post by PokemonNoGo »

barbs wrote: post #132
PokemonNoGo wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You might be interested in Fooyin? https://fooyin.org/

Exactly why i made my comment! Thank you! Will check it out! So many players out there for Linux it is hard to keep track!
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