Thanks OP, this type of posts is honestly the only thing I can say that I miss from Reddit, I hope people keep making posts like this here.

Have you tried Strawberry? It's the best one out there, imo.

I just want winamp in working order.

Unfortunately, this is not actually free software, it is distributed under an EULA: https://github.com/harmonoid/harmonoid/blob/master/EULA.txt

I still miss armarok 1.4.10

I like Tauon Music Box.

Python based. Relatively easy to compile. It's also on flathub.

Embrace tradition, return to XMMS

Looks gorgeous. Unfortunate that Subsonic is under "likely impossible" features, but I will try this on my home PC at least.

Reminds me of MusicBee, good ol' days.

I've been using PlexAmp for a long time, but I've had a lifetime subscription to Plex for several years now. They have versions for Linux and a headless version you can run on a Raspberry Pi (this one still requires PlexPass).

I haven't heard of harmonoid but will for sure be trying this out! It looks great

Looks nice, a little bit basic though. I'm still using Foobar2000 for my local files, haven't found anything better even though I've looked.

Sadly still no alternative that comes even close to MusicBee.

I need one that does it all. Extremely large library, complete and complex searching, filtering, changing which columns are displayed/how, complete tags editing and display including less common ones, and the ability to add custom library tags (such as tags for grouping purposes, which I use extensively on top of Genre and Comment). Also need gapless play, ability to add fade in/out and control the length of that fade either when skipping or between all tracks, ability to edit the start/end of some tracks, etc. And good tools for auto-tagging, automatically fetching album art, easy re-organizing like MusicBee which allows you to auto-rename and move selected files along customizable rules, etc etc etc. MusicBee has tons of really good tools and 90% of them are basically required for how I organize and add to my library. And a clean and configurable UI where I can decide what I want to see and where it is, wavebar, visualizers, good controls and a nice auto-DJ, etc etc.

Works really well with Wine now, but still there's some annoying things like it not being detected as a media source, and not being recognized by the normal media buttons/widgets. Also recurring audio problems (need to refresh Pipewire or switch the sink) which have gotten better but still not quite there.

God audio stuff on linux still has a long way to go.

Really pretty! Honestly such good Ux. Love the player at the bottom.

Firefox (for Invidious)

Haha currently I use VLC beta from the Ubuntu PPA, ran through Distrobox as I am on Fedora and they dont seem to damn care about RPMs. Also no beta Flatpak, even though this beta is sooo good, new UI and flac fixes.

I find it interesting how large the difference between tastes regarding music players is. After the development of Cantata ceased, I was unable to find any mpd client that I liked and decided to write my own instead (if anyone is interested, the code is available at https://github.com/dokutan/cmpdc)

Good for my PC but not for my crappy (but loved) netbook. Too CPU demanding.

Using sonixd for desktop and finamp for mobile through my Jellyfin server and really liking it.

I did have to make a separate Jellyfin account for my music since I didn't want music showing up on the Jellyfin TV apps cluttering it up but not bad overall!

Finamp doesn't track new items in a playlist marked for offline play which is my main gripe atm.

Flutter makes such beautiful looking applications

Looks great, and it works great on my desktop. I also quite like its simplicity.

However, after playing around with it for a bit, I noticed one glaring flaw. It stores its playlists in one (potentially) huge playlists.json file. It's great if you're manually creating playlists from scratch. However, I've had several playlists that I've compiled from my time in iTunes, and then Media‌Monkey, all of which are now in an m3u format. I can play them in Harmonoid just fine, though it only shows song info for the first song in the playlist, even though it does play the rest of the songs just fine.

Meanwhile, since Harmonoid also has a mobile version, I also played around with it. My playlists worked better over there as it shows the track information for all tracks, not just the first one. I haven't dug up the files to see how they're being stored, though.

I guess a feature like "playlist import/export" can be requested. Personally though, looking at the JSON data within the playlist.json file, however, IDK:

{
    "playlists": [
        {
            "name": "History",
            "id": -2,
            "tracks": [
                {
                    "uri": "file:///home/user/Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumberAndTrackName.mp3",
                    "trackName": "TrackName",
                    "albumName": "AlbumName",
                    "trackNumber": 1,
                    "discNumber": 1,
                    "albumLength": 1,
                    "albumArtistName": "AlbumArtistName",
                    "trackArtistNames": [
                        "TrackArtistNames"
                    ],
                    "genres": [
                        "Genre"
                    ],
                    "timeAdded": 1554270035,
                    "duration": 0,
                    "bitrate": 0
                },
                // More tracks…
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Liked Songs",
            "id": -1,
            "tracks": []
        }
    ]
}

Been looking for an alternative for iTunes for ages. iTunes runs like hot garbage on my PC, but for me it just seemed like there just wasn’t anything like it for offline music playback an d management. This looks very promising, I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!

I've always used VLC and my file manager :-P

thanks op, I've been meaning to rip my digital music collection