>>109604487
skinned vlc

https://aimp.ru

rmpc

shitty shell script that find's my entire music folder and pipes it into mpv shuffle

the default that opens when i double click an audio file

foobar2000 is neat, configured it once and enjoying it a lot. If you're nostalgic there's WACUP.

spotify with a script that removes the ads. I've found a lot of good music through it's algorithmic suggestions

strawberry

>>109604543
exactly this lmao

>>109604487
Right now Strawberry, though I don't particularly care for it. I tried Quod Libet a couple years ago or so, and liked the UI more, but it was full of bugs. It crashed so often that I never really got the chance to actually test it out, and now that I've got Strawberry configured I can't really be bothered to migrate again.

I couldn't find any other players that had the features I was looking for (smart/auto playlists, ability to rate tracks by half-star increments). Even so, Strawberry lacks support for the "Date added to library" field, so I've probably lost that data across my collection at this point.

>>109604487
Gapless has slick design and basic functionality, but there might be some minor bugs

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I gave up trying to find something great and settled on >>109605408

Main issue with it for me is that it lacks support for folders or custom playlists. Hate having to organize shit through albums/artists and what not. Just let me decide.

>>109604487
Winamp

youtube

>>109604487
qmmp
In its default design, no dumb winamp skin.
I discovered that i don't need anything more and that it provides all functionalities i want.

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>>109604487
Fooyin
Best I've found after giving up on getting foobar with catrox working well on loonix
Better in some ways desu

musicbee

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>>109604487

Clementine

>>109604543
can I see your shell script? Manually making playlists for mpv sounds cool

>>109604487
Qmmp at home. MPD + a selection of clients on the go.

>>109607060
it's just a simple

#!/bin/bash
find . \
-type f \( -name "*.wav" -or -name "*.flac" -or -name "*.mp3" -or -name "*.ogg" -or -name "*.m4a" \) \
! -path "./#SFX/*" \
! -path "./#Uncategorized/*" \
| mpv --af="lavfi=[loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-3:LRA=4]" --shuffle --no-audio-display --playlist=-

i just exclude folders that way, the actual list is longer but you get the idea

>>109605829
Superb choice. Qmmp, Strawberry, Fooyin, Quod Libet, and Sayonara are top 5 on GNU.

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>>109604487
strawberry just werks

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fooyin.

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foobar for downloaded stuff

and i'm on an apple music family plan and use the app on my phone and it is exceptionally convenient. On the infrequent occasion I want to use the subscription to stream on PC I use the apple music website because after 20+ years itunes on PC is still the jankiest piece of shit that ever was. Also at this point you'd think hardware performance gains would have outstripped their ability to make a media player dogshit slow but nope, going through their website is much more performant and responsive than native code.

is there any good way obtaining good quality flacs apart from ripping them from streaming sites via few sites that pop up from time to time?

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I hate how nothing on Linux comes close to this

>>109604487
youtube. i dont care about music enough to do anything other than look up a song i want to listen to on youtube and listen to it

>>109604487
Namida, on github

>>109604487
I run winamp 5.666 through wine
I've tried every linux music player under the sun and then some but none have an album grid and persistent playlists where I can drag and drop stuff into from the file manager on the left like winamp does

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>>109604487
mpd + ncmpcpp

>>109611599

Have you tried rmpc? It is a spiritual successor to ncmpcpp of sorts.

>>109611631
don't really see a reason to switch, but ty fren

>>109604487
cmus

>>109605645
Try rufin or this
https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.juancarlosbernal.FolderPlay

strawberry navidrome support sucks dick
they made it so the playlists dont sync to server, making it useless

>>109610575
>i haven't used anything like this on a platform i also haven't used, therefore it doesn't exist
There are tons of butt ugly players that look like an illiterate nigger redesigned Spotify, for Linux and every other OS.

>>109611104
>none have an album grid and persistent playlists where I can drag and drop stuff into from the file manager on the left like winamp does
Many do. Sometimes you just have to spend 30 seconds clicking a few things. Off the top of my head, all of the following do exactly what you describe:
Deadbeef
Fooyin
Qmmp
Sayonara
Strawberry

>I've tried every linux music player under the sun
You obviously have not.

>>109604487
Strawberry

>>109611599
looks like you're using mint, based take

>>109611705
>looks like you're using mint, based take
ye, I'm using LMDE :)

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I use eagle app. It cost 35 dollar but it's worth it.
I mainly use it to organise my porn folder.
But it has some use as a music player
i can retrieve song with the 1 to 5 star system, or with some notes or in the folder i put them or even with a tagging system.
even tho it can't read advanced music files like .ogg. It can't also play a music after the other so playlist doesn't even work.

Yeah i need a real music player.

I downloaded aimp a while back but it just don't have that sauce.

If someone can reccomend me something like eagle where i can easily retrieve song, can read video, AND is visualy apealing i'll be happy

Audacious with Winamp skin

>>109611686
>Deadbeef
>Fooyin
>Qmmp
>Sayonara
>Strawberry
I tried all of these and none of them do it the way I want it
Strawberry, fooyin and deadbeef for example does not have an album grid like winamp has

>local music in the big 26

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>>109612075
>Strawberry, fooyin and deadbeef for example does not have an album grid like winamp has
Something like this?
Library Filter -> Columns
Display -> Artiwork (no labels)

>>109612086
why would you ever stream music

>>109612125
which of those 3 is that, I'll give it a try

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>>109612086
>t.

Exaile or Deadbeef.

>>109612178
Strawberry