Hello everyone.

I’m on a campaign to move my audio listening closer to nearly all offline. My current quest is to research which are the best options for offline music player on the PC.

I have a mix of FLAC and MP3 files, and desire to add more high end music files from physical media in the future. But the main need right now, is to learn what are the best free music players out there.

My current knowledge of PC music players worth a try are, WINamp, foobar2000, and VLC.

What would you recommend I check out?

  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I use VLC and my library system is just file directories. I found wlnamp good but it wanted to use the media tags which were often a mess on compilation / collaboration albums.

    • spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      The one problem I have with VLC is that it waits to read the next file from disk until it’s time to play it, which can be disconcerting when switching from one track to the next.

      If you use cue/flac, then you don’t need to worry about this. VLC 4.0 will fix the problem, but until then I find strawberry to be an adequate solution.

      Strawberry is paywalled on windows, but WSL would be worth a try, and clementine, which strawberry is based on, is not.

      • SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Yeah it’s not ideal when adding multiple directories as it’ll only read a directory when it goes to play it. But I mostly listen to albums while driving so it’s not much of an issue. It’s a little annoying when trying to play all directories on random.