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Although I don't use DeaDBeeF as my primary music player anymore, back when I did, I wrote a plugin for using VgmStream with DeaDBeeF around 10 years ago, so I could more easily listen to video game soundtracks directly from the game files. For whatever reason, I have continued to maintain said plugin despite that I only use DeaDBeeF to test updates to it.
It's not on the plugins list because I haven't bothered trying to get it there. I don't think that list existed when I wrote this. I approached the author about upstreaming it instead, thinking it would be a good compliment to the builtin Game_Music_Emu plugin for emulating various old video game and computer audio chips. They seemed a bit upset that people didn't want to maintain external plugins, but actually I didn't really mind doing so. Maybe I should look into getting it on that list some day.
Either way, if streamed video game music formats are up your alley and you like DeaDBeeF, then shameless plug: https://github.com/jchv/deadbeef-vgmstream
It's the successor of Clementine.
ah mate, thanks. i was wondering why i couldn't download the windows build of clementine, seems like they're infra is not updated or something else.
Just to add to the list: mpg123 [0]
It's not "ultimate" by any stretch, but it's a really good command-line mp3 player, and the one I use the most. It's been a long time since I've researched it, so there may be better ones out now.
* xXx_nataliste420_xXx is now playing In the End by Linkin Park [3:36] [Playing] [played 467 times] [Nu-Metal]
The old Amarok was amazing. I still use Clementine to this day.
I just don't like the cover art manager, everything else is jut right for me.
I used to use Amarok. I switched to Quod Libet because its better for some genres - e.g. classical where I want to browse by composer, not performer.
Surprised media monkey never makes this list. I started using it initially because it worked work with my ipod but I still use it because if the visual UI. Cons are that it only works on Windows and there's a paid version. I've been investigating players over the past year and I've installed most of these but I'm always disappointed in how lacking they are in terms of just giving me a visually pleasing dark mode grid of album covers. It's nitpicky but it's something I absolutely want as a way to browse all my music.
I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/
You could add mine to that list: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
I'd be curious to try it but I don't understand from the site whether it is mobile only. It claims that there is a utility to sync with desktop but then it doesn't run on desktop?
It's both desktop and mobile. If you're browsing on mobile it will show you screenshots of the mobile app.
The sync app is separate, free app just used for serving files to the mobile app for syncing though.
I'm rather fond of QMMP, because being built with normal Qt5 and a very vanilla stock theme, it integrates nicely into my "You're going to look like Motif come hell or high water" desktop theming philosophy.
I also find that I never got into playlists, so something that can easily be coaxed to just swallow 100Gb of content and let me occasionally search for a specific track is my speed.
I have very fond memories of XionPlayer; https://www.xionplayer.com/
The amount of visual flare that thing managed to produce in the heydays of WinXP was stunning, felt like operating a scifi-movie prop with all of the alphablended animations shooting out of the player window at times.
But none of those whips the llama's ass.
audacious can, with its winamp mode
WACUP can!
Can vouch for Audacious, clean straight-forward UI and neat plugin functionality if needed (along with equaliser functionality which is what originally got me on board). Bit of a heavy feel from QT backend though so I might try out DeaDBeeF..!
Musicbee is king!
getmusicbee.com
museeks seems to be the only one with a nice gui. The rest looks like Win95 or worse.
It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is just streaming everything off the net, no local storage required.
(I'm writing this as a disapproving old geezer, just in case it wasn't clear.)
I must be an even older geezer, as I detest all the late wave music players that became full screen things that load music from everywhere.
I organize my mp3s into folders by genre, then named by artist - title. To play one I double click it from the system file browser, and just want a tiny, og winamp style player to open and play that one song. Or multi select for an instant playlist.
I've never found a playlist editor better than Winamp. Open a folder tree of all of my music and I could quickly enqueue an hour of exactly what I wanted to hear and if that changed, swap in a few tracks, or an entire album or act from a folder. It took a long time to build up my library and I knew it very, very well.
I do the same thing, and players (mostly on Android) that only support metadata-based browsing annoy me to no end. Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!
I've been using Music Folder Player (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.zorillasoft...) for over a decade for this very reason.
I think Android has now made this type of player almost obsolete. Every app has its own file sandbox and apps must go through an abstraction for media that works poorly.
> Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!
I see you don't know the challenges of disk access on Android for developers.
Well I'm almost 50 and ripped my first (shit quality) 64kbps mp3 somewhere around 1998 or earlier. But I switched to a library view and stopped individually managing folders when iTunes first appeared (24 years ago?). I just concentrated on proper tagging, including mood and instrument. I spent that more time ripping CDs and using tag editors than worrying which folder they were in (but that took care of itself with good tags). With a library you can still play an album, or a whole artist catalog, but also a whole genre, a mood, all you top rated music, or an automatic playlist that plays your least recently played, or least played but highly rated music from a mood, instrument, genre etc etc.
These days I use musicbee which has extremely customizable views, so you can browse your music however you want. My wife tends to pick a specific album, whereas I tend to be in a specific music mood so I hunt around for tracks and make a two hour playlist for it. She'd be happy with folders probably but it would kill me not to be able to search for instruments and moods. How else are you going to get a trumpet and piano playlist? Remember every song name?
> Remember every song name?
I know it's crazy, but yes! Nothing drives me crazier than seeing an actor and trying to remember where I saw him/her in before, and hearing a song I know but don't know the name.
I use Shazam liberally but it's pretty bad at the non mainstream stuff. I end up finding it with searches and screenshotting it for my reference.
Not that you asked any of this, but I -have- to know the name of a song I like.
Does that mean you need to click on the next song to play ever ~3m ? Because that sounds worse than having to flip the vinyl every ~5 songs.
It depends. In short, in that workflow, yes. But that's normally because I'll think of a song or get one stuck in my head I want to hear, as I don't listen to music all day.
You can also multiselect files or folders to open as a playlist, if that's your thing.
Infinite autoplay of stupid recommendations is so annoying too.
You don't need to always listen to new pieces of music to enjoy music. Once you realize that you can focus on owning the stuff you like and listen to that most of the time
Plexamp is a good player for your local files (personal server) that you can stream.
I use it and it's mostly great, but the experience on Linux desktop isn't the best as it feels like primarily a mobile app.
There's a large and growing number of music players for streaming from your own server. You get the best of both worlds by owning your music and having it accessible anywhere.
They are all so poorly written though.
None of the OSS media players come even remotely close to the UX of Spotify, and that's speaking as someone who has paid way too much for Roon because it's at least 80% of the way there.
I've really been liking plexamp on my phone & desktop. It's not perfect & I've recently swapped to just using an iPod but it was good while I was using it.
UX of Spotify - you mean annoying podcasts, ads for the concerts by the bands you've never heard of and mixes with ghost artists?
My main issue with Spotify is how bloated it is, how they ruin the UX with almost every update.
Evermusic https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evermusic-cloud-music-player/i... is pretty solid.
eh, for the masses yes but it depends on what people u surround urself with.
If you are a KDE user, I highly recommend fooyin, which is essentially a Qt6 clone of Foobar2000:
I've been using strawberry since moving to linux since there was no good foobar2000 replacement but I just discovered fooyin these past couple of days and this is so convincingly close that I can pretend it's just foobar2000.
That's not to throw any shade on strawberry, it's also incredibly good, but foobar2000 will always have it's claws in me.
foobar2000 actually runs very well in Wine.
couple years ago, i did try but after hours of attempts, i just couldn't install working version of Eole-foobar-theme, is it possible to run these days?
I've never heard of that. It looks like it packages some dodgy components, notably foo_spider_monkey_panel. I only know that fb2k with its official components work reliably.
Unfortunately, the theme is written in javascript, so this is basically a middleware It was the first and last time i was able to perfectly customize my player to what i wanted though
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thank you! i thought i had to use elisa for the rest of my time it's still missing some foobar stuff but i like it
Unfortunately it has the same problem as all flatpak software of breaking network shares on restart.
There are also .deb and .rpm packages: https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin/releases
Off-topic, but Depeche Mode's Exciter came out in 2001!
Another vote for fooyin! A foobar2000 like player that feels right at home in Plasma is a dream come true.
DeaDBeeF has been my goto for a while now because it's the only linux music player with the extremely specific feature I used in winamp:
enqueue is an arbitrary list so you can have a playlist, leave it in order and/but/then play a song multiple times in a row. everyone else it's a toggle so you enqueue a song and then enqueue again and it removes it; if you want to listen to a song multiple times before moving on you have to add it to the actual playlist multiple times and I do not want to do that.
literally the only important feature to me in a music player.
Qmmp does that too! It's (with deadbeef the primary) my secondary player, where I have a short playlist with songs that are meant to loop an indefinite amount of times.
Does it have "Stop after current track"?
>music player with the extremely specific feature I used in winamp
If you have any windows boxes around, WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project) is a recent-build of winamp without the bullshit. And includes the Enqueue feature.
cmus does this as well.
Some people I know love it but it just doesn't work for me in the way I use a music player. It's similar to foobar2000 in some ways which depending on your preferences can be good or bad.
And the name is terrible.
Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky. Quod Libet and Rythmbox would seem closer to my ideal interface-wise, but scored massive own goals they seemingly will never recover from. How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind.
Since I subscribe to Plex I find I'm using Plexamp more than anything else, but that's not really open source.
> Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky
Strawberry isn't the most solid program (a few times a year, its search hiccups and gets stuck for a few seconds), but it carries the torch of Clementine's UX - which is my ideal music listening experience.
Which itself carried the torch of Amarok 1.x's UX. No software rewrite, not even GNOME2→GNOME3, ever hurt me as much as Amarok 1.4 → 2.0
Compare Amarok 1.4: https://amarok.kde.org/files/amarok14/shot7.png
To Amarok 2.0 alpha 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20110820190636/http://blog.lydia...
It was so widely disappointing that the “Amarok 2.0 FAQ” had an entry for “IMO Amarok 2.0 looks terrible” even though that's not a question lol https://web.archive.org/web/20090208231357/http://amarok.kde...
Luckily the Clementine project came along to deliver a straight port of Amazon 1.4 from Qt3 to Qt4 which was all 99% of people really wanted.
*James Rolfe voice* What were they thinking‽‽
Right - how could I forget Amarok ? And I too was pushed to Clementine by Amarok 2.0
Ouch. I loved Amarok 1.x back in the day. That was... something.
I have tried A LOT of different music players over the years on Linux and the amount of ones that do not offer a single easy way to find a given album by a given artist is truly maddening.
I have recently landed on Tauon which has a pretty particular UI that is pretty unlike most others, but after some getting used to worked well for me. Audacious is mostly fine as well, but at some point I did not want to use it anymore because it would just stop responding to MPRIS events too often
For remote playing I have been really enamoured with Navidrome (in combination with Symfonium) lately. It's not super pretty, but it really has the best organization of albums I have seen so far and I kinda just dont use it for local files, because I dont want to do everything in the browser...
Music players are a great example of a type of app that at first brush seems simple and difficult to do badly, but in reality is littered with subtleties and bits that hinge on the preferences of the user, all of which can make or break the app.
Makes it easy to understand why there’s more players than can be counted but few worth using.
That's because they all try to be more than they should be. I don't need or want a visualization option. I don't need or want an equalizer. I don't need or want a library. Those functions properly belong in other places or in the waste bin. My music library is on my filesystem and is sorted and arranged as I prefer. When I want to play an album I drag it over to MPC-HC. When I want to create a custom playlist, I open the playlist and drag songs over in the order I want. I don't need a psychedelic visualization, my use case for playing music on my pc is as background audio. The function of an equalizer is to make up for shortcomings in my speakers and belongs there. The media player should convert an encoded file into PCM data to be shoved out the DAC. Leave the file managing to my file manager. The sound shaping to my speakers. And the crap frequency domain visualizations in the trash.
None of this is universal.
Putting the equalizer upstream at the speaker level means that all of your audio is affected by it. And yet there are many times where I am playing certain types of music, such as classical or tracker impulse chiptune that needs some adjustments - i'd much rather be able to adjust it at the playlist and/or player level.
The advantage of a music player that builds a library from a set of folders is that it's infinitely faster to be able to do fuzzy searches particularly around metadata such as Idv3 tags.
Etc. etc.
I’ve of two minds on this. On one hand I agree, because the more functionality a music player has the more likely some of it will miss the mark, but on the other hand I find file managers as they currently exist are somewhat inadequate and incapable of fully replacing a library management system in a music player.
Without going too far out into the weeds, lack of integration between filemanagers/filesystems and music players is the main problem. File managers aren’t conducive to sorting by audio file metadata - even those that support it force the user to manually enable those columns in list mode and support is spotty across file formats, meaning the user has to fall back on “hacks” like modifying filenames to sort properly when sorting by name.
Additionally, the browser-type design that’s dominant in file managers doesn’t lend to versatile use with other programs.
This is one area where I think BeOS had the right idea. There, audio metadata was accessible by way of the filesystem which made it easy to access by applications and meant that the file manager more robustly supported sorting by that metadata. Additionally, the file manager was similar to that of Classic Mac OS where windows were dead simple and each represented a single folder, which made it easy to use a file manager window as a playlist window.
>My music library is on my filesystem and is sorted and arranged as I prefer.
How do you manage albums that could be classified as two or more genres?
Are you sure that you actually want to use a computer to play music?
It sounds like you don't need or want a music player.
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Perfect. The only thing left is to convince every other user to share your opinions. </s>
Quod Libet handles album artists properly with the right sorting options? (And also it's one of the few that supports original release date, another seemingly essential feature that few players support.)
In Musium (https://docs.ruuda.nl/musium/) I also handle collaboration albums that have multiple album artists, based on Musicbrainz album artist id.
If they changed something in the last year, maybe. But last time I dug into this in detail they screwed it up out of the box, specifically by refusing to use the same mp3 ID3 tag that most other software including Picard uses. So for FLACs it worked, but for MP3s it did not, until I went in and edited the code.
At the time, the developers claimed changing it to work as people would expect it to would break existing user workflows and so they wouldn't do it.
>And the name is terrible.
The name is just a piece of hacker lore from back in the day
I know what it is, that doesn't make it good.
It's amazing how bad software developers are at naming their projects. At least this one is unique enough to be searchable, and could probably be SEO'ed above the computer lore (indeed, at least for me it's already #1 for "deadbeef" on the Google SERP).
The worst are when they pick a generic English word for a project that has nothing to do with that word. I'm not going to name and shame, but there are so many examples of new project that get posted to HN monthly that have irrelevant and unsearchable names. We see things like "Show HN: Banana - A lightweight URL parsing library in Rust". WTF does URL parsing have to do with bananas? How do you expect that word to be uniquely searchable back to your project??
I think that "Go" (the programming language) takes the crown.
It is one of the most common words in the English language. It is also one of the most popular board games in the world, and it has nothing to do with it. It can mean plenty of other things, just look at the Wikipedia disambiguation page. It is enough of a problem that it is often called "golang" to make it more searchable.
And ironically, it is made by Google.
The best part is that it wasn't even an original name within the domain of programming languages: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
Agreed that Go is a terrible language name. Just go use Go to make a game of go while riding the GO train.
C is pretty terrible too, being a popular and extremely influential language with a one-letter name.
"Why hasn't Gimp found mainstream success?"
"Adoption of our Ogg Vorbis format isn't where we hoped it to be"
"Fork me on Git"
Git is just a hobby project named after the author, like Linux.
Yes, really:
https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index...
Neat! Both Linux and Git are examples of terrible product names.
The thing that gets me is application launchers, I'm fine with any clever and obscure name you pick for something that's intended to be behind the scenes as presumably there's going to be a certain amount of promotion or awareness inside whatever domain is involved. However if a launcher (or a repository/app store as an earlier step) just gives the clever name with no context to what it does rather than "CleverName - media tag information editor".
It can go too far the other direction too, for example the generic names like Files, Phone, etc either preloaded on the device by the manufacturer (eg Samsung) or by Google, or some third party.
Yes, my tablet has Contacts (icon: a blue figure on a white background), and then it has Contacts (icon: a white figure on a blue background), depending on which tech firm I want to spy on my social relationships.
> It can go too far the other direction too, for example the generic names like Files
The worst is when an application's display name is different from its actual name. Like on my MATE desktop it took me years to fully internalize that “Files” is actually `caja` if I want to invoke it from a terminal. At least Nautilus was a type of shell lol
Probably meaningful in another language. For instance it means "box" in Spanish, or in the language of the Pali Tipitaka it means "giving up".
It's because we don't care, labels are arbitrary and if your app is any good you can call it Chimpanzee Hot Dog Fart and people will still use it. Honestly, my personal stretch goal for my dev career is to invent an app that's so useful to corporate America as to be indispensable and then call it ThumbBum just to force people to reference it in professional contexts. "Jared I need you to get on ThumbBum right now. Lives are at stake."
This is exactly why Terry Gilliam named his production company Poo Poo Pictures. He liked the idea of studio executives having to ask their assistants "Did the Poo Poo memo come in yet?"
Isn't it obvious ? Lightweight URL parsing library in Rust is just Bananas!
But i totally get your point.
I'm wondering that if some random gibberish might even be better to name a project nowadays. At least there would be less SEO collision.
My experience is that the most overloaded software project name is “Apollo”. I worked at one big company that had three different internal services by that name. I blame NASA for this one :v
If it makes you feel any better I worked for a company that referred to each of an internal tooling library, an externally-facing web app and an offshore consultant as 'Zeus'
Blame the ancient Greeks!
I really miss Foobar2000 on Linux (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows), so this looks like it might be just up my alley - especially since it has custom tag support.
Still using wine+foobar2000 as my music player here. The only issue I can think of is sometimes when when turning my screens off and back on, the UI might be glitched and need a restart.
> (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows)
Really? I noticed it's slower to start up but other than that it seems the same. I use it pretty regularly because foobar components handle formats the others can't.
Other than that, I'd say Audacious is the closest Linux analogue to foobar2000. My one big gripe was freezing up for a bit when a stream cuts out (blocking socket?) but they fixed that.
Last time I tried it (quite long ago), I recall having some audio issues. Maybe I should try again... that was back when my old audio interface (that only ever worked on XP, since they never released production-grade drivers for Win7) finally died.
Give it another try. I switched to Linux in 2022 and have been using fb2k via Wine all this time, and it runs perfectly.
> How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind
Apple Music on macOS broke album artist (click the artist column a few times) a few releases ago and you now have to resort it on every launch. Maddening. They then added an explicit “sort by album artist” column which… does not work.
> How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind.
And many of the few that get "Album Artist" won't respect tags that set the sort order for it either. If you are lucky, they will at least special case "The" so that "The Beatles" are under B, but they'll still put John Denver under "J".
The only one I know of that gets both of these right is cmus; I don't choose to use a terminal-based music player, I'm forced to.
What your exact issues with quod libet? As someone who's main criteria were (1) replaygain support (2) good album artist sort and (3) simple interface, quod libet is where I landed.
What are the own goals you speak of?
> runs on GNU/Linux distributions, macOS, Windows, *BSD, OpenSolaris, and other UNIX-like systems.
> Each platform’s native UI toolkit is employed to deliver the best experience
> GTK2, GTK3, ALSA and PulseAudio on Unix systems
If the author is here, please understand that there is no "native" UI toolkit for Linux or BSD. These platforms have several widely-used desktop environments, some of which use the Qt toolkit instead of Gtk.
For what it's worth, Qt is an excellent cross-platform toolkit, and does a far better job than Gtk at looking and feeling native across all the major desktop environments and operating systems. You might consider it instead of Gtk for future work.
> If the author is here, please understand that there is no "native" UI toolkit for Linux or BSD.
You're wrong. When a library is native to some system, it does not mean that it is always shipped with the system. It means that it runs directly, without an interpretation layer in the runtime.
So GTK3 is native to Linux/Xorg. The desktop environment is irrelevant, and may not be based on GTK3.
The phrase "Each platform’s native UI toolkit" suggests that each platform has one specific native toolkit. That misconception is what I was addressing.
To put it in practical context, apps built with Gtk generally stand out like sore thumbs on Qt-based desktops like KDE Plasma, both in the way they look and in the way their widgets respond to input. This rather undermines the app's claim "to deliver the best experience" with its choice of UI toolkit.
But if you like, go ahead and believe that I'm wrong instead of trying to understand.
There are 'hacks' around this, which style one toolkit/widget set from another, in combination with themes/styles for these. Not for any combination by far, but some do exist. I think that started with RedHats Bluecurve. And then got harder with with later GTK3 and their forced (lib)Adwaita-crap and CSD.
By that logic GTK3 would be native to Windows as well.
Consider that for many GTK is also native. Mate/Gnome has been a standard for many years. Personally I'm getting more problems with Qt apps than GTK. Especially: font rendering, once a year or so Qt apps revert to outline fonts (I use bitmap OTB fonts as desktop font - i like pixel perfect quality in small sizes) or worse stop rendering font at all and I get empy menus. Second thing is IME support this also breaks very often on updates. Why Qt neglects such basic things I don't know, but because of the above I cannot call Qt 'excellent'
DeaDBeeF already has both GTK and Qt UI plugin options, so just use the one that’s most native to your desktop (GTK: GNOME/MATE/XFCE/Cinnamon, Qt: KDE/Trinity/LXQt). If those UIs aren’t sufficient for some reason, since they’re plugins they can be forked and tweaked or if one was so inclined, they could write a whole new UI plugin. No need to wait on the author.
And while it’s true that Qt fits into a GTK desktop better than the reverse, I still find myself preferring using apps written with the toolkit that matches the desktop in both cases.
MusicBee https://www.getmusicbee.com/
Very (very) longtime user, with just under 10K albums I can peruse. Took me a while to tweak everything in the UI to my tastes, but now I can't imagine using anything else to listen to streaming music.
And yes, I really do have that many albums. Most of them are LP's and CD's, the rest are from places like Bandcamp (https://bandcamp.com/jerhewet).
My favorite Linux one these days: Gapless. (simple but beautiful) https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.neithern.g4music
The thing that’s missing for me is discovery. Release Radar and the Discovery playlist and related artists on Spotify (for me) are currently top tier. I get introductions to artists no one else has with songs I often like. Last.fm used to do this? Maybe? But doesn’t seem like it anymore. Other streaming services, apple, tidal, quobuz, youtube, all seem lacking in one aspect or alter. Are there options on this?
Last.fm is still there and it's still supported by almost all players on linux. Even the ones that don't have a specific plugin for last.fm, there are player agnostic scrobbling clients. I wrote one for all MPRIS compatible players - which is basically all of them - and it includes other free services that work similarly to last.fm: libre.fm and ListenBrainz.
For me spotify's suggestions used to be good but degraded over time. I wonder if ChatGPT would be good at this? I assume so
I don't subscribe to the FOSS purism you often see in Linux projects.
But there's something refreshing about seeing a tool that just gets more useful over time. Contrast that with closed-source software, whose features are driven by OKRs and might vanish if a new PM decides they aren't promotion-worthy or important to the next billion users.
I do wonder about hygiene and vision on such projects. On the one hand, seeing what happens when dozens of people over the decades have all written players for their own weird pet format is cool. On the other, I imagine a lot of that falls out of maintenance if the guy who wrote one looses interest, or if the project gets ported to a platform he doesn't care about.
I also expect that the Linuxisms of "everything is a setting" and "control density over visual appeal" are natural consequences if nobody is in charge of setting a vision.
I know DeaDBeeF's lead dev (O. Yakovenko) from a game dev forum I frequented ~20 years ago. IIRC I regarded him as one of most competent people on said forum: he was an actual professional game dev, perhaps capable implementing a whole game from scratch, whereas most ppl on the forum were amateurs.
Tried a lot of music players so far. Currently Deadbeef is my default one, despite two things I don't like:
a) The search could be a bit more fuzzy (search "ade" and you won't find "adé")
b) importing a directory takes ages; what takes me 5-7 minutes is done by Quod Libet in <10 seconds.
Otherwise, love it!
DeaDBeef isn’t my primary player, but it does have some interesting capabilities that I use it for from time to time such as the ability to list chaptered AAC files as separate tracks (making it easier to navigate them).
The way it supports alternative UIs by way of its plugin system is interesting too. It’s neat to have a native GTK UI under a GNOME desktop, native Qt UI under KDE, and native AppKit UI under macOS with the same program.
Any other fans of Foobar2000? https://www.foobar2000.org/
Probably everyone that's a fan of deadbeef is also a fan of foobar2k.
Whoever is taking the screenshots has good taste in music.
DB is quite nice. Don't know if it still supports it but back in 2017-2019 it was possible to use terminal commands to control playback, similar to what one might use a more complex tool like mpd for, which I wrapped in Picolisp to be able to easily change the music without leaving the REPL and then hooked it up to a socket for remote control over the LAN.
Most of Linux based media players, including deadbeef, can be interacted with using MPRIS, a DBus interface, and there are multiple CLIs for sending/extracting information from them. I can recommend you the one I developed: https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-ctl , but there are others.
I understand pipes and forks, I don't understand DBus, so I'll probably keep on shelling out in my personal tools. These days I also rarely use anything else than mpv on full album files and network streams/web radio.
Might be useful for someone else though!
Well, DBus is basically a pipe with typed messages, but I understand. :D
At this point syncing playlists across devices is my main requirement for a music library player.
I still have Spotify but I mostly use Plexamp now and have pretty much phased out musikcube. I still have a musikcubed service container pushing a large playlist on repeat/shuffle to a FM transmitter though.
I mostly use a simple music player made by a friend for my daily needs. The design is inspired from spotify and It works really great. https://github.com/H0lyDiv3r/player
Has the bundling situation improved? https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef/issues/2017
This one was always kind of buggy, it was hard to maintain my custom config and figure out which plugins actually worked. Stopped using DeaDBeeF after my similarly whimsical Linux ricing phase. Can't recommend :/
My go-to has been AIMP for years and it has the same set of features plus a bit nicer skins/UI. Also an android version with the same feature set sans audio conversion.
Also, last update was in December, not in 2023.
I don't need music player on my pc, because mpv can be used for playing music. It also supports zip archives, so albums from bandcamp can be played without unpacking
I do too, but I found that it doesn't quite work well with stuff like .cue files the way it works with individual files.
With individual files I can at least (in console for example) `cycle-values keep-open always`, which makes mpv not continue to the next file after finishing the current file, however, it doesn't work when a chapter of a .cue file has finished, thus continuing on.
The killer feature that made me switch to DeaDBeeF was the replaygain scanner that works out of the box. I just wish it would integrate better with the KDE environment.
On desktop, I am using audacious with winamp skin, but I haven't found a music player on android managing properly my cue files...A bit annoying.
If I have to choose a music player I would go with aimp.
the immediate thought: why would I like to use it instead of foobar?
been using it for years. I prefer mpd but will use Deadbeef on linux and foobar on windows.
the ultimate music player was banshee. it was glorious :'(
Naah, foobar2000 FTW!
mpv for me. Why? Because I'm using it anyways for other stuff, like video, and it doesn't scratch when I FF >> or <<. Not skipping to the next track, just fast forwarding within one, or rewind in intervals. Which comes in handy when 'earsighting' new stuff, to sort it out fast without earbleed.
I mean, even yt gets that right in the browser. Why can't dedicated clients?
But can it sync my 5th gen iPod Touch? Nope. Game over.
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It's funny how a UI can look old. This looks like what Python Tkinter would spit out. Anyway at least for me software like this is more tangible nowadays (I could make it) though I'm not much of a music person (programming related to audio).
I also used to have mp3s but not anymore, with Spotify, SoundCloud, BandCamp or YouTube with UBO.
Yes, the clean look of a 'traditional' GUI is somehow refreshing now we're surrounded with dark patterns and inconsistent style over substance.
Reimplementing foobar2000 in Electron is sort of a running joke on the #foobar2000 IRC channel.
Just changing the technology isn't enough, the whole GUI needs an overhaul.
For example, browsing 'by album' just adds unsightly [+] icons that are hard to hit with fat fingers on a touch screen. There should be a carousel of album art that you can swipe left or right! If there's no album art, just show a grey card and the first 10 letters of the artist's name in 8pt white letters. Once you select an album, you see the tracks on that album sorted by length, because radio edits are short and obviously the most popular tracks, so they should be on top. If you click shuffle, it will shuffle all of the tracks of the current artist (since we showed the artist's name, well the first 10 letters, so you should be a fan of all of their work). But you can also add tracks to a playlist (that's not shown), by long-pressing them. And to remove them, double tap. Everyone will try those gestures at some point in time, so it's easy to discover. Besides, they will both make a sound. Don't worry about it not being loud enough, the UI sounds will play at volume 10, and they will pause the track being played, so you don't miss anything. Playback controls are easy, just one button to play/pause/rewind (double tap)/fast forward (triple tap). And long press (10% longer than short press) to reset the playback position. Wait, we also need a control to record audio to reclaim the space being used by the mp3 currently playing, like dubbing over a tape, extra-long press will do that. Maybe that's hard to remember, so quadruple tap will also do. There should be incessant popups to remember to use the replaygain functionality, without explaining what it does (store the replaygain figures on a Google sheet, but not use them for playback yet, because the volume control uses the pinch zoom-in and pinch zoom-out gestures and we're unsure which gesture to use to enable/disable using replaygain)
Crafted by Rajat
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