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What's your favorite music player on Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

MPD + ncmpcpp, I hate both and I'm yet to find anything better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel this. If you could right click to interact with the text objects, then this combo would basically feel like foobar2000 for linux. I'm old enough to have missed how great foobar2000 felt after WinAmp started to get bloated (back before I got my hands on some Linux ISOs), so MPD + ncmpcpp just felt so refreshingly stripped down and a little nostalgic. I just fucking hate having to memorize a bunch of non-intuitive hotkey combos to do anything. Probably the same reason I've never bothered to properly learn Vim.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm an Emacs graybeard, so complex keybindings don't scare me. My problem with ncmpcpp is twofold:

It relies on MPD which is always a PITA to properly configure. Pulseaudio always managed to make it not work on a fresh system. Hopefully with Pipewire it'll be better.
The config format make no sense whatsoever. Especially the one with keybindings. It's so cryptic I just stopped trying to understand it. Again, I'm an Emacs graybeard, to stress it as a point of reference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

MPD + ncmpcpp, I hate both and I’m yet to find anything better.

I’m an Emacs graybeard

Emacs does have a music player, emms, which is what I use.

M-x package-install RET emms RET

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm aware but thank you. I've tried it before and didn't like it. Maybe I'll give it another shot, though I don't see much benefit in tying my music player to Emacs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When I'm using Windows, I still use foobar2000 for listening to radio streams.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

mpd is the best music player on any system

I’ve started using Cantata as a graphical front end, though