Have you tried Strawberry? It’s the best one out there, imo.

I like Tauon Music Box.

Python based. Relatively easy to compile. It’s also on flathub.

I still miss armarok 1.4.10

I’ve been using PlexAmp for a long time, but I’ve had a lifetime subscription to Plex for several years now. They have versions for Linux and a headless version you can run on a Raspberry Pi (this one still requires PlexPass).

Haha currently I use VLC beta from the Ubuntu PPA, ran through Distrobox as I am on Fedora and they dont seem to damn care about RPMs. Also no beta Flatpak, even though this beta is sooo good, new UI and flac fixes.

Good for my PC but not for my crappy (but loved) netbook. Too CPU demanding.

I find it interesting how large the difference between tastes regarding music players is. After the development of Cantata ceased, I was unable to find any mpd client that I liked and decided to write my own instead (if anyone is interested, the code is available at https://github.com/dokutan/cmpdc)

I have been using g4 music and it works amazing and looks really nice on gnome https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.neithern.g4music

I haven’t heard of harmonoid but will for sure be trying this out! It looks great

Flutter makes such beautiful looking applications

Looks great, and it works great on my desktop. I also quite like its simplicity.

However, after playing around with it for a bit, I noticed one glaring flaw. It stores its playlists in one (potentially) huge playlists.json file. It’s great if you’re manually creating playlists from scratch. However, I’ve had several playlists that I’ve compiled from my time in iTunes, and then Media‌Monkey, all of which are now in an m3u format. I can play them in Harmonoid just fine, though it only shows song info for the first song in the playlist, even though it does play the rest of the songs just fine.

Meanwhile, since Harmonoid also has a mobile version, I also played around with it. My playlists worked better over there as it shows the track information for all tracks, not just the first one. I haven’t dug up the files to see how they’re being stored, though.

I guess a feature like “playlist import/export” can be requested. Personally though, looking at the JSON data within the playlist.json file, however, IDK:

{
    "playlists": [
        {
            "name": "History",
            "id": -2,
            "tracks": [
                {
                    "uri": "file:///home/user/Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumberAndTrackName.mp3",
                    "trackName": "TrackName",
                    "albumName": "AlbumName",
                    "trackNumber": 1,
                    "discNumber": 1,
                    "albumLength": 1,
                    "albumArtistName": "AlbumArtistName",
                    "trackArtistNames": [
                        "TrackArtistNames"
                    ],
                    "genres": [
                        "Genre"
                    ],
                    "timeAdded": 1554270035,
                    "duration": 0,
                    "bitrate": 0
                },
                // More tracks…
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Liked Songs",
            "id": -1,
            "tracks": []
        }
    ]
}

Really pretty! Honestly such good Ux. Love the player at the bottom.

Been looking for an alternative for iTunes for ages. iTunes runs like hot garbage on my PC, but for me it just seemed like there just wasn’t anything like it for offline music playback an d management. This looks very promising, I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!

thanks op, I’ve been meaning to rip my digital music collection

I’ve always used VLC and my file manager :-P