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Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It's also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I'm curious what other people are using these days. What's your favorite player?
Clementine. I sometimes use the Navidrome web UI too.
MPD + Cantata
For the most part I just lump all my music into one playlist regardless of album or genre, but day to day I also use several different computers, and I find MPD to be the best for syncing configurations across all of them. Cantata also allows me to see album artwork and track information really easily and has good touchscreen support compared to terminal-based MPD clients.
mpd + ncmpcpp
For the most part I use ncmpcpp with mpd, but sometimes whenever I just want to listen to a single file I use mpv --no-video instead....
Nothing honestly. Couldn't find a music player that doesn't look like a file manager, has good search and queue features and doesn't make strong assumptions about how music is organized. Tried to run Musicolet through waydroid but it doesn't support Nvidia gpus
Strawberry.
Our desktops are almost identical, lol.
VLC because it works with everything and it doesn't try to organise my music collection for me.
Strawberry [clementine fork]
No one really. I've tried a bunch but never found one that felt just right. Clementine is the one that gets the closest.
I really wish MusicBee had a Linux port, it's the only thing I miss from Windows.
How do you get dark mode in Strawberry under KDE? I remember trying to follow some guides and not having much luck. But that was a long time ago at this point. Does this "just work" now?
My distro came with Rhythmbox and I've pretty much just stuck with it. It does podcasts and radio which I appreciate and I can also edit track metadata in it. For playing music from my file browser I use MPV because it's fast.
Probably a tie between audacious, strawberry, and qmmp
Clementine
lightweight media server Super fast indexing. Smooth web client. Also supports the subsonic api. I've been using the web client locally for some years now. I can also access my library on the go with substreamer on Android which is great. https://github.com/epoupon/lms
Clementine
mpd + Emacs frontend. There are dozens of us
I simply play music using mpv.
Strawberry+1
I agree with Strawberry. I'd love if Music Bee ever got a linux port or equivalent though
Strawberry if I had to have something visual with buttons.
cmus right now because it loads my rather large library in a split second. mpd works great as well.
More important than the player for me is sorting, though. Beets is my saviour. I could never sort the 5 or 6 albums I get by hand and tag them by hand.
I used to like deadbeef as well, quod libet is great. There really is something for everyone when it comes to something for music. If only there were as many great email clients.
Rhythmbox
Just mpv for me. Simplest and most versatile option
Amarok 1.4 from TDE
VLC when I'm listening to local files, ncspot for Spotify.
I'm a fan of cmus. simple and easy.
strawberry-qt5 from AUR
if I'm using gui on my laptop, then amberol
if I'm using my headless server, then you can't get anything better than mpd
