Music Player/Managers Thread

[sukhoi_su37]

What do you use to manage and play your music? Why? What do you like about it?

I'll start. I've been using mpd+ncmpcpp since the start of this month. And while I (like everyone) hate the name, it just works and is comfy. I fucking love ncurses programs.
But what I REALLY want is something like winamp for GNU/Linux. They just haven't come up with a good enough alternative. I wanted to use qmmp since that's what its whole idea is but I'm on a tiling WM and the two don't play nice together.

 

[sukhoi_su37]

I'll review some players I've used. Although I've played with foobar, amarok, qmmp and xine, it wasn't long enough to have an opinion on them.


[9.5/10] MusicBee
I've used MusicBee for the longest time (back when I was on windoze) and it's the closest to what I want out of a music player. It's lightweight. The UI is very very configurable. It comes with a gorillion skins out of the box, an in-house skinning utility, and it also supports background images. It can even scrobble with a plugin. Although I don't like that it comes with some unneccessary features, plus the super unwieldy tag editor.

[4/10] DeadBeeF
Tries to be foobar. A shittier foobar. Your database does NOT update manually, and although there is a plugin for that, it DOESN'T FUCKING WORK. You have to remove and then reselect your music folder every time for it to update. Is okay otherwise.

[9/10] WinAmp
Does what it does very well. But it's bloated with features nobody uses, like podcasts and radio. It also tries to be a general MEDIA manager beyond just music but honestly who uses winamp for that?

[10/10] ncmpcpp
The ultimate based music MANAGER, not PLAYER. It really sticks to the unix "do one thing and do it well" principle. It's an ncurses program that just manages your damn music, and that's all it does. For the actual music-playing, it talks to MPD, acronym for "Music Player Daemon" which one can venture a mighty guess as to what that does. So it's obviously super lightweight, not that things tend to be heavy in the music player world. It doesn't work out of the box as it needs to be configured which filters noobs.

 

[pixyc]

still usually use youtube for most casual listening but i do curate my own personal collection, though i don't really have a good app for listening through my whole libarary. if i need to reference something ill usually just open it up in my bog-standard foobar2000 (or IINA when im on mac). if i did though i'd probably be using musicbee. think i also used Dopamine 3 for a bit, don't remember much but it was kinda nice i think.

 

[elite]

I've tried a couple of music players, there's alot that stuck out to me for instance, a windows only (unfortunately) but very capable music player named XMPlay.
It worked really well on my machine even on Linux! (Provided if you have Wine) plus has a variety of themes ranging from an underground radio station to a fucking modern theme for an old player (There's also plugins that spice it alot)
For the theme i use the more minimal Neutron, It's nice and sensible.
for a old winamp-styled player, i generally used Audacious, It has support for winamp's themes for it but on windows? It's maybe clunky to convert BMP assets into PNG to use on Windows. Plus you have to enable a setting to turn it from a modern music player into Winamp.
Though i've since moved on to Quod Libet.
Has alot of plugins and can be customized with GTK2+ themes, Yes that's what i use.
It just werks.

Those are what stuck out to me

 

[Anon]

idk if this is good music managing but I prefer foobar2k with sort by file structure. I keep my audio in ZIPs and RARs.
sort by album/artist gets confusing so file structure is it for me ; the reason for this is already sort my shit before scanning.

also this for linux

Though i've since moved on to Quod Libet.

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for me personally in a music player minimalism is king with lists rather than grids

 

[7EVEN]

XMPlay (now that I'm still on Windows 10)... really capable when you arm it with fuk ton of plugins, and with skins looks dope af. I also love WinAmp for the almost same reasons, though since I'm really nerdy about 'balls-on-accurate' module playback, XMPlay is always the choice (for .MODs, .XMs, .S3Ms etc).

 

[WilliamAtomika]

Long time AIMP user, but couple years ago switched to clementine. It is very similar, but works on linux and is FOSS.

 

[sukhoi_su37]

clementine

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>qt application

linux

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>linux

 

[WilliamAtomika]

>qt application

>linux

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Yeah. Debian X11 KDE, it just works.

 

[elite]

Yeah. Debian X11 KDE, it just works.

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Install Linux From Scratch.
in all fairness don't

 

[Xeraser]

give me winamp (and musicolet) or give me death
it just works

 

[nosuchwordasherring]

Never been quite one for special music players, but I used cmus a while back on my old laptop for this and that and it was satisfying. Bit clunky on the keyboard shortcuts (probably my fault), but I enjoyed the simple af skin.

 

[Anon]

give me winamp (and musicolet) or give me death
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>Initial D
>Akatsuki Records
>Dragon Force
damn I literally listen to that