I'm not seeing many people taking about it online when talking about music player on Linux, So I make this post to spread the word https://www.nokarin.xyz/projects/aqloss#download , https://flathub.org/en/apps/xyz.nokarin.aqloss

Anything you like about it in particular?

Because it looks nice (prettier than most player on Linux IMO) also visualizer and lyrics fetching is pretty cool too, not that other player can't do it but Aqloss is the best all around

I have to admit that it looks nice and full of features. Looking forward to try it.

I recently found cmus and have really taken a liking to it - mostly because it's really lightweight, and I love the novelty of my music player running in the terminal.

Oh and I get to do really cute, useless things nextt it

But I'll have to give Aqloss a try :)

I'm not talking a bout it because I'm still stuck on fooyin ;)

I'm fond of qmmp because it ticks the boxes: it fits sanely into my desktop aesthetic since you can use normal Qt theming, it supports MPRIS for integration into status boxes, and the download-lyrics plugin works (surprisingly rare, many onky surface embedded lyrics)

With a webpage like that, I'm not surprised that no one takes it serious. Looks like it fell straight out of a startup. 😵‍💫

I've been using mpd with ncmpcpp for a long time. Recently found out about rmpc, which in really pretty

Yeah it kinda showy but in a way I like it

It does look nice. Layout is the hardest part to get right, there's no one size fits all, so opinionated players like that can run into a lot of empty space like shown in the screenshot.

Think music players are the software I'm most picky about and have switched multiple times. I'm kinda stuck between using Audacious and DeaDBeeF at the moment.

Either something has all the features I want but looks bland or outright ugly, Or it looks really nice but is lacking in playlist management or some other weirdness.

I don't think I'll ever find "the one".

Check out Gapless, it's minimal and has a beautiful UI.

I like the fact that I can edit track info or automatically edit tracks in an album and add album covers in Clementine.
Any music player alternatives that can do the same?

Rhythmbox

This has been my Linux music player for like 15 years

I recently discovered Rufin and I'm so happy with it.

It meets most of my needs such as ListenBrainz scrobbling, Linux & Windows versions (and even a future Android one according to the latest release), Discord Rich Presence, and basically every other feature I would expect a local music player to have.

Bonus it is written in Rust 🦀

MPV

I get so annoyed when there's no forum and just a discord. Discord sucks

Well, according to the latest discussion there is a Matrix room: https://github.com/screwys/Rufin/discussions/1178

Oh this is great, I've been using Elisa for a while, but this is so pretty & customisable, definitely gonna keep using this.

Yeah, it's my fave too. Some people like pretty UIs þough.

Diversity is good.

"ZHIEND is not rock! Its post rock!" God I miss that anime T~T

https://www.nokarin.xyz/projects/aqloss#download

This website is aggressively bad. Why does my cursor have to disappear completely when I stop moving and become a gray circle when I do move it? Way over-designed.

Have you tried Tauon?

I've been using rmpc for a couple years now and I like it overall except that it can be a bit simple. Just a queue and monolithic library, can't create playlists or play random files, etc.

Its my first mpd client, but I know mpd is meant to be fairly narrow. Being clean and simple is mostly a benefit at least.

Strawberry. Happens to be a fork of Clementine. It is paid on Windows though, but not on Linux

I misread the name at first and got confused.

Be also picky about triangles and lighthouses

I have and ended up picking DeaDBeeF over it.

I've been making my "the one" for years (off and on) now. I'm getting closer with https://github.com/MangoCats/Lempi - but it's still got a big cost up front that I'm under-motivated to address because I've already paid (segmenting songs, IDing them in MusicBrainz, analyzing them, trimming lead-in lead-out points, etc.)

The thing I like the best about Lempi is that it does "shuffle play" with a reasonable intelligence, auto-selecting a good subset from my collection based on example songs that I want to hear "things like this" during certain timeslots of the day. I can just let it run anytime / all the time like a radio station and not think about choosing my playlist.

Yeah, it's a tragic name for the dyslexic lol

I'm working on Lempi, which is both similar and different - mostly on how the DJ works:

Rufin's Auto DJ says "more like this track" and trusts the server's idea of similar. Lempi works like a radio programmer with rules: it decides how often each song may come back, what fits this hour, and what follows well from the last track, then adds a controlled amount of chance.

https://github.com/MangoCats/Lempi

I've been off and on developing Lempi for personal use since 2020 - it has other names in the past, most recently changed becasue I was developing under a name somebody else "went wide" with in 2023. There's a lot of music players out there.

it's vibecoded, just look at the design

It was so good

So much blank space on the screen though

Will check this out!

I've been on the hu g for anything close go MusicBee which was my go to for managing and listening to my huge flax library

For now, RMPC and Tauon are both working well - but missing some features I'm used go having

Yes I tried strawberry but not crazy about it

Good shout ty

Doesn't do replaygain by default.