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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. Strawberry is getting there but still doesn't have as many features.
Edit: huh, I didn't expect a downvote on Lemmy for my opinion. Is reddit leaking through? Weird.
Yeah I miss the visualizations in clementine, and project M doesn't seem to work for me on my system w strawberry. It loads but it doesn't seem like it's responding to playing music.
Depending on how it's packaged, the visualizations might be missing. I noticed that too.
Considering that I'm using Emby (selfhost), it's able to manage my music collection too and I can play the music from the web player exposed by it.
Couldn't find any that works for me. At the moment I just play my music in mpv from terminal.
Foobar2000 has been here for YEAAAARS, and I don't think there is a good enough equivalent for linux, and by that I mean playlist tabs, global shortcuts, etc
Aqualung—does the small set of things I need it to, and is content to operate on files and directories rather than force the creation of a "music library" that doesn't in any way match how I categorize my music (although if you actually want a music library, it can do that). Only issue is that it's still GTK2, which may become a problem within the next few years.
I used to use Amarok, but now I have a subscription to Youtube Music. It gives me a lot of flexibility on running it in a browser or on Android without worrying about syncing.
I usually listen to music on YouTube when I'm using a computer. When I play my own music, it's from my Plex server with plexamp with a phone. I rarely use the plexamp desktop app.
Desktop/Laptop: Ncmpcpp + mopidy-mpd + jellyfin-plugin
Mobile: Finamp
Homeserver: Jellyfin
With this setup I'm able to manage and play my playlists on every device.
I just use Navidrome's web client. It does everything I need. DSub on Android.
cmus is my favorite, elisa is my second favorite.
MOC
mocp
mpg123 of course
Spotify-wayland on hyprland. And I also definetly dont have SpotX-bash, a great spotify adblocker installed!
On Windows, I like Plexamp since I can keep all my music on a Plex server and access it whereever. There's a Linux version but I haven't tried it on Linux yet.
Firefox (invidious). Its free, no ads, and I dont have to store files locally.
Musicbee with wine! I have never been able to find something that does it all as well as musicbee, and I've tried almost every single linux music player. I have a huge music library, I add a ton of music regularly. I need auto-tagging, i need to be able to sort, filter and search, a very customizable interface, all of the mp3 tags including obscure ones, gapless playback, configurable fade-in/fade-out, etc etc. With the exception of a few little nitpicks like not integrating well with the KDE media widget, and some occasional annoyances with pipewire, everything works great.
Spotube
Plex or Plexamp with Tidal integration.
cmus
So fast and satisfying to navigate around
Haven't used it in a while but Amberol is simple (all I need) and gorgeous (which I care about).
I'm a DeaDBeeF fan. i used it on windows and still use it on linux
Foobar2000, which is a Windows application but available as a snap using wine.
I really want to use DeaDBeeF because it is Linux native and has similar customization features (I like big album art, for example), but sadly its library management leaves a lot to be desired compared to Foobar's. I don't want to have to generate a playlist every time I want to listen to an album, nor do I want to have to clear that playlist when I'm done.
I haven't found any other player with even remotely similar customization available.