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Over the past few days I've been going through the various music players on linux and noticed some sound worse than others. Strawberry seems to be the most recommended but it sounds worse to me than audacious does, and I'm pretty sure it's not placebo.
Can any loonix audiophiles chime in? It's not something I'm super anal about but I'm curious about what most people here use assuming you've compared it with the other options.
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>>108557113
I use feishin connected to my navidrome library
Its alright, but I'm no audiautist
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>>108557113
you can customize everything in the fooyin ui
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>>108557113
audacious is the best one don't bother with anything else
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>>108557113
>DeaDBeeF
>Audacious
>mpd+ncmpcpp
>mpc
>xmms2
those are your options
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>>108557113
mpc + i3wm binding modes + fzf
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>>108557113
i use cmus, which is run through the terminal
nice if you're already used to vim, wish it had the ability to shift playback rate like foobar2000 thoughbeit
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qmmp 1.x branch
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>>108558349
Winamp UI clones are still the best btw. Not moving away from this UI even though I am now a Linux user.
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>>108557113
Qmmp
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I’m probably the only guy liking it but I use Amarok.
The layout just makes sense to me and features such as the dynamic playlists are exactly how Ilike to listen to music.
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>>108557113
mpd doesn't work out of the box but also doesn't take long to fix.
Just use a launcher and sxhkd to control it, no fancy UI neded.
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>>108557113
>it's not placebo
it is until you blind-tested it
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>>108559041
How do you CRUD in your db without an interface? Manually from cli?
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>>108559041
#!/bin/zsh -i

fzfconfig() {
fzf --no-header --ansi --preview-window=up,16,nohidden \
--preview='nvimpager -c ~/.config/music_player/fzfkeys/mpd_view_queue' \
--bind='\
<:execute<mpc volume -1>,\
>:execute<mpc volume +1>,\
enter:execute<mpc play {1}>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-p:execute<mpc toggle>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-h:execute<mpc cdprev>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-l:execute<mpc next>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-S:execute<mpc shuffle>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-R:execute<mpc random>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-r:execute<mpc repeat>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-s:execute<mpc single>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-d:execute<mpc del {+1}>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-x:execute<mpc crop>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
alt-c:execute<mpc clear>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
ctrl-s:execute<mpc save {q}>+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
esc:clear-multi+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
ctrl-c:clear-multi+reload<mpc playlist | nl>,\
ctrl-d:clear-multi+reload<mpc playlist | nl>'
}

function mvq {
mpc playlist | nl | fzfconfig
mvq
}
mvq

#!/bin/zsh -i

fzfconfig() {
fzf --header=' -- ADD FILES -- ' --ansi --preview-window=hidden --bind='\
enter:execute<mpc add {}>,\
esc:clear-multi,\
ctrl-c:clear-multi,\
ctrl-d:clear-multi'
}

maf() {
pushd ~/Music/
(( fd --color=always --type=d . | rg -v 'data-cddb' );( fd '*.flac' --color=always -g . | sed 's?\./??g' )) | fzfconfig > /dev/null
popd
maf
}
maf

#!/bin/zsh -i

fzfconfig() {
fzf --header=' -- OPEN PLAYLIST -- ' --ansi \
--preview-window=up,80%,nohidden \
--preview='nvimpager -c ~/.config/music_player/fzfkeys/mpd_open_playlist; mpc playlist {}' \
--bind='\
alt-r:execute<mpc renplaylist {+} {q}>+reload<mpc lsplaylists>,\
alt-d:execute<mpc rm {}>+reload<mpc lsplaylists>,\
esc:reload<mpc lsplaylists>,\
ctrl-c:reload<mpc lsplaylists>,\
ctrl-d:reload<mpc lsplaylists>'
}

function mop {
mpc load $(mpc lsplaylists | fzfconfig)
}
mop
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>>108557113

music players on linux suck ass
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>>108561753
Everything sucks on linux except Emacs/Vim, a web browser and GCC
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>>108557113
MPD
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>>108557113
for me it's mpd+ncmpcpp. at first i did it for internet points, then learned to love it
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>>108557113
Only ever used Audacious. No idea why distros insist on bundling <some other shit>
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i use youtube music, it is included in youtube premium
you can listen to every song almost
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>>108557113
banshee just werks
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>>108557113
music players arent actually handling the way that the audio is being streamed or created. there isnt any way they could change the sound, besides a developer wanting to mess with people and purposely altering it with eq or compression for some reason
just pick the UI you like best, and use pipewire.
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If a certain music player sounds "worse" than others when playing the same audio files, it's probably bugged. That should not ever happen.
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>>108563132
i like musicbee
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>>108557113
I switched to strawberry from audacious a couple of years ago and have never noticed any difference in the sound. You might want to check your settings.
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>>108563330
strawberry is ripoff from clementine...
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I still use Clementine.
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>>108558457
based as fuck
do you have the theme and wallpaper? i love that window border
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>>108563348
how does that relate to his reply at all?
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Linuxfag (NixOS, ofc) here, this is my setup:

My main setup is a self-hosted Navidrome[1] w/ library managed by beets[2], Supersonic[3] for PC playing, and Ultrasonic[4] for Mobile.

For loose/local-files, Audacious[5], and mpv[6] for everything else


[1]: https://github.com/navidrome
[2]: https://github.com/beetbox/beets
[3]: https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic
[4]: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.moire.ultrasonic/
[5]: https://audacious-media-player.org/
[6]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
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>>108557113
I use Rhythmbox, it just werks.
I tried strawberry.
I tried lollipop.
That shit couldn't just play my songs on shuffle.
I don't even want to like Rhythmbox because it's gnomeshit, but it's the most straightforward player.
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Why use an media player when modern media servers have all that plus the ability to access music anywhere?
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>>108564898
zoom zoom
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>>108564898
I've never listened to music in public.
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>>108558189
cmus really feels like the only good music player nowadays. Works great.
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>>108557113
anything that uses mpv
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i personally use cider. it gets the job done but its only worth it if you already have an apple music subscription
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Its just too hard for linux devs to have a fully featured music player
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>>108557113
strawberry is all you need
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>>108566434
i have a folder with like 10k flacs and it's struggling to open them
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>>108566611
10k files in 1 folder? why?
I'm using strawberry (big fonts cause on a tv).. I used to use clementine.
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>>108566611
the initial index scan takes a while. after that, the program should open the folder quickly.
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>his music player doesn't have a built in dac
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>>108557113
I like Quod Libet (GUI) and cmus (TUI)
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>>108557113
Advantage of a standalone music player over just VLC?
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qt fooyin
Gtk gapless

Simple as.
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cmus>>>
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>>108567698
why is it good
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>>108567831
it's to the point, lightweight, pretty while avoiding visual fluff and is cli based, which i just think is comfy.
im not an audiophile, so it's possible that it lacks things specific features that such people make use of, but for me it's perfect.



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