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I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It's so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme πŸ˜†

How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y'all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!

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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've been sticking with music players that can output directly through alsa. I settled on strawberry cause it can do that and also has other features that i care about baked in ootb. Deadbeef can also output directly through alsa and i liked it for the most part, but what i didn't like was that things like mpris support wasn't baked in, so i would have to mess with plugins. I don't know if there are any other players that can output directly through alsa, those are the only two that i could find so far.

[–] aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think its almost perfect, just need a plugin to be able to show lyrics synchronised with the song

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[–] MxNichole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I use it occasionally but mostly I use terminal players like cmus or musikcube (aliased to mcu, because... geek)

Mostly I live in my shell with zellij and do basically everything on cli. Even web browsing (allbeit non graphical) can be done with stuff like lynx or w3m. And for fanfiction that's fine.

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Well i personally doesn't like big screen audio player like clementine or rhythmbox, i like music player as simple & mini as possible like QMMP

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I've been enjoying Tauon, it does the things I want

Are there any music players that will play my mp3s and stuff but also let me play audio from youtube or spotify without logging in? On android I use Musify, which does this but is a little wonky.

[–] koffie@masto.nu 2 points 1 week ago

@merci3 Just a very solid player. Linux music players come and go but Rhythmbox has always been there.

[–] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 points 1 week ago

Cider, apple music

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I really just want a media player that:

  1. Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)

  2. Has ReplayGain support (lots do)

  3. Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)

Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.

Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.

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[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I'm currently using Sayonara, but Rythmbox is perfectly fine too.

[–] Chemo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really really don't get why you just can't organize your music in plain old folders with rhythmbox. Not Playlists, not Meta data. Just folders. Ist it that exotic? Is it that hard to implement?

[–] merci3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My musics are organized by metadata, playlists AND folders. I currently got about 1980+ songs locally, and felt like I needed all of these methods to keep them organized and good looking

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Gapless is a sexy gtk4 based player.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Couldn't figure how to use the equalizer of strawberry

[–] my@mastodon.de 1 points 1 week ago

@merci3 I use rhythmbox as a music and webradio player. It does a good job for this use case.

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