I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It’s so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme 😆

How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y’all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!

  • flubba86@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I like Strawberry, for two reasons:

    • It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.

    • It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.

  • chockblock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use Rhythmbox to edit/import/maintain my music collection and sync my iPods, and then I use Lollypop to play my music from my computer. Lollypop has next to no of the aforementioned features but its just nice to look at and simple.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    can anyone suggest a tool to re-assess all my ripped mp3s and flacs with artist/track title info? I ripped ages of music from CD, and at some point a lot of the data got dicked up.

  • shikitohno@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I use mpd and ncmpc++, myself. My library got too large (Just shy of 70,000 songs now) and all the GUI players choke and freeze when I try to scan my library, including Rhythmbox and QuodLibet. I’m kind of interested in how inori develops, since ncmpc++ isn’t getting any active development beyond fixing bugs when things break with updates, but I’m also pretty happy with it for now.

  • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I just went on a journey looking at different local music players.

    Just tried Rhythmbox. It’s not terrible, but not great either. It looks very bare bones.

    Of the ones I’ve tried, I like Elisa the best. I spent a ton of time getting HQ artwork and quality metadata on my files and Elisa really shows that off. Rhythmbox barely shows any artwork. I just have two complaints about Elisa. First, Qt apps just don’t feel right in Gnome for various reasons: fonts are often too thick, icon contrast is bad, and Qt theme is weird for non-Breze. It also has weird scrolling behavior: it has forced scrolling smoothing and acceleration.

    Runner up is Sayonara. It’s Qt based, but actually feels decent in Gnome. Overall I like the UI more than Elisa, but unfortunately it doesn’t handle showing my library as well. Artwork is duplicated (it shows albums multiple times if songs in them have different years) and some artwork is inexplicably missing.

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I use strawberry now, which is a clementine derivative. Having my library in one column on the side and just pulling stuff from the library to a variable custom playlist is my preferred player style. Exaile is also like this, and deadbeef too if your library is organized and you add the filebrowser plugin. I use strawberry over those two because it’s the only one I can get from the main arch repositories and I try to minimize AUR usage.

      Pragha actually fits this style too and is still in the arch repos, but I don’t understand why because it stopped getting upstream updates years ago and is a buggy mess compared to strawberry with no advantages.

      I definitely miss the clementine remote though, being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don’t know any other player that has similar.

  • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It literally hasn’t changed even a tiny bit since I first saw it in 2006 :)

    I currently use Strawberry - a well maintained fork of the old Amarok player before they redone the UI for KDE 4. It does what I care the most:

    • Tree view collection with artist -> album grouping
    • Files view
    • Lyrics
    • Tag editor
    • Queue
    • Last, but definitely not least - gapless playback
  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I used it on Mint. I liked it. I use Strawberry now because it can bypass software decoding and output audio directly to my DAC.

  • Mx. Nichole@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I use it occasionally but mostly I use terminal players like cmus or musikcube (aliased to mcu, because… geek)

    Mostly I live in my shell with zellij and do basically everything on cli. Even web browsing (allbeit non graphical) can be done with stuff like lynx or w3m. And for fanfiction that’s fine.

    • merci3@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Just out of curiosity, what advantages do you think cli apps have for this sort of application? Is the experience snappier?

      • Mx. Nichole@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Honestly I use an app called zellage and I like being able to put my music player(cmus) and artwork ripper(cmus-art), and usually a visualizer (wtf can’t I remember it’s name).

        There’s no particular advantage so much as my personal preference for staying on keyboard and off mouse. I have everything bound to key chords that I’ve more or less memorized so it’s a quick ctrl+t n for new tab ctrl+p v move pane down , etc etc and I can do all of it more or less by feeling.

        It’s largely an aesthetic preference, but It’s also that I have a slow system. So I can keep ram use down. 2nd gen core i3 problems (shrugs)

  • aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.brPortuguês
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    2 months ago

    I think its almost perfect, just need a plugin to be able to show lyrics synchronised with the song