I use Audacious.
It can use Winamp skins which is great, though lately I’ve been using its default UI.
I use Mopidy and NCMPCPP for mine
My janky 20 year old Foobar2k setup and plugin workflow is easily the thing I miss most when using Linux.
No mention of VLC?
Ive been using vlc so long I forgot there was anything else…
Really missing smth like musicbee :(
wait spin a docker container with navidrome and another docker with aonsoku web player and call it done or use any subsonic compatible clients. And this work anywhere!
No mention of Cantata, nor acknowledgement of Amarok’s recent revival. Whatever the reason might be for those omissions, this article doesn’t do a very good job of representing the state of linux music players.
Very nice article. Very useful.
is this your article? It’s a really nice summary and helped me narrow down some choices as I prep a box.
“The state of Linux music players” but no mention of Audacious or Deadbeef? For shame.
Yeah, I did not expect them to do that title justice, because how in the hell could anyone try 200 music players, but how did they get down to 7 and somehow skip some of the most popular players…? Did all of those somehow look broken on their setup? 🫠
Doesn’t even mention deadbeef lmao
Quod Libet’s my player of choice
I miss Banshee Media Player. We need a fork.
This was my music player for so long.
Built upon Mono and Gtk#
Oof, I tell you. Oof.
I doubt many devs will want to subject themselves to a Microsoft stack, so I wouldn’t put too much hope into a fork. Probably rather worth seeing if any of the current music players have a similar UX…
I use Lollypop and I love it. I would like it to have more information about the track being played. Which audio player do you recommend for Gnome that is in GTK4? Thanks