Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I’d ask here for suggestions first. Features I’m looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:
- Music folder can be anywhere, not only ~/Music
- In the list of songs by a given artist, I can sort by album year, but the tracks within each album stay in the correct order
- The player remembers where I left off the next time I open it
I’m using Rhythmbox and it’s great but unfortunately it doesn’t do #3 (if I missed some setting let me know please).
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Best options from the comments were Strawberry and Quod Libet. I think I’ll go with Quod Libet. Thanks all for the suggestions.
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mpd + ncmpcpp
I use Gapless. it’s pretty simple, but i mostly use it because it doesn’t look like absolute buns. i think it has what you want.
yt-dlp + vlc/mpv-cli and a terrabyte of ssd.
say no to the cloud, the seas are far comfier
AIMP Linux native version has been released, worth a try
Tauon has been great.
it’s not open source (it’s free though) and runs on linux through wine, but i like aimp.
Elisa, from kde
I like Sayonara
You can have a look at this list : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.
Amarok if you have a really large collection.
I’ve been using Strawberry for my local music for a bit, might not be the most modern looking, but I’d say it’s decent. You can set folders to be scanned, and if you double click an artist’s folder in the “collection” menu it’ll add all their songs to the queue in whatever order you’re sorting by. It’ll at least remember the last played song, so just pressing play should start that song assuming you didn’t clear the queue. Doesn’t seem to remember how far into the song you were before closing it if that’s what you’re after though.
Seems promising, thanks! I don’t care about song position, just that it remembers which song.
Seconding strawberry 🍓
If you like the command line aesthetic… Auditorium.
Or Kew
music player demon runs in the background and plays music (always remembers its position, and if you reboot while playing music it’ll continue playing automatically when the system is up again), and can be controlled by various clients like Cantata, Euphonica or Plattenalbum (they should all do 2.) and many others. It can output network streams, clients can connect over the network (control the music on your PC from your phone), utility demons to feed your play queue with similar or random songs…
Very versatile, though setup is a bit more complicated than with one simple program.
strawberry can do all iirc
Out of all the music players I’ve tried on Linux, Clementine variants like Strawberry are the best ones for my needs. I’m not entirely sure of #2, but otherwise yeah, it does all that and more.
Audacious is also a decent low resource player.
Audacious is also cool if you want to go “retro” and use old winamp skins.
Definitely agree - I usually use cmus because it follows my system theme as part of the terminal and kind of fits in anywhere, but for graphical players having options for skins is a must for me. Used to like all the options for this on AIMP when I used to use Windows.
I’m pretty sure if your metadata is correct you can enable the album year collumn and when applying a new sorting, it doesn’t touch the previous one.
So for example if you sort alphabetically first, then album year, it would be “grouped” by album year and inside each group it would be alphabetical. I say group because it could be that two albums released in the same year.
