Been enjoying Rhythmbox, what are your thoughts?
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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.
being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don't know any other player that has similar.
Well, you can remote control playback in Kodi through apps like Kore, and browse the libraries, but it's a totally different experience in comparison to dedicated music player apps. Kodi is more like software for a home theater PC, a.k.a. media center.
The best viable solution I can think of, that includes a desktop UI and remote control from a phone, would be hosting a Jellyfin server for the music library, then using the client app for Android to remotely control another client app running on your desktop. I do that everyday (but mostly for video content), since I'm using my phone to control playback on a Raspberry Pi running Kodi with the "Jellycon" client add-on, but that could be any other Jellyfin client, such as a regular Jellyfin desktop client.
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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.
I just read that navidrome
Handles large libraries!
Plays well with gigantic music collections (tested with ~900K songs - 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3)
Though, I don't know if any of the supported Subsonic API clients can handle as much...
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Cantata.
Same here. Nothing even comes close, at least in my opinion - it's comparable to foobar2000.
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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)
Is this the one? https://zellij.dev/about/
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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 UX more than Breeze, 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.
I really enjoyed Elisa too! It looks modern and does a great job at showing off metadata
But I still sticked with Rhythmbox because of:
1- it's GTK based, and I'm currently on Gnome (the reason why when using KDE, I stick with Elisa)
2- I kinda did not understand how managing playlist in Elisa works? Maybe I missed something, but Rhythmbox just seemed more simple and direct to the point with that.But yeah, I do agree with you that Rhythmbox really lacks in the "showing album covers off" space. But in my personal usage, I don't tend to be looking at the UI of the music player on the desktop anyway, since I usually just play music on the background while doing other stuff.
On mobile (android) on the other hand, I'm enjoying Gramophone for not only showing larger covers, but also matching it's own Material You colors to the respective music you're playing, it's neat
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Side question that may be relevant since this is for local collections. Does anyone have a recommended tool for ripping and tagging audio CDs (e.g. with musicbrainz support)?
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Is this the one? https://zellij.dev/about/
Yup that's the program
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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!
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.
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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!
Cider, apple music
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being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don't know any other player that has similar.
Well, you can remote control playback in Kodi through apps like Kore, and browse the libraries, but it's a totally different experience in comparison to dedicated music player apps. Kodi is more like software for a home theater PC, a.k.a. media center.
The best viable solution I can think of, that includes a desktop UI and remote control from a phone, would be hosting a Jellyfin server for the music library, then using the client app for Android to remotely control another client app running on your desktop. I do that everyday (but mostly for video content), since I'm using my phone to control playback on a Raspberry Pi running Kodi with the "Jellycon" client add-on, but that could be any other Jellyfin client, such as a regular Jellyfin desktop client.
I do have jellyfin set up for movies and shows, but I've stuck with strawberry for music because the player interface is a bigger priority for me than having a remote is.
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I used to use cmus before the streaming services got to me
cmus forever!
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I never managed to make Tidal work. How did you do it?
+1 — I tried getting the gosh darn API key for hours with no success. Share your secrets (original commenter)!
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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!
I really just want a media player that:
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Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)
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Has ReplayGain support (lots do)
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Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)
Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.
Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.
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I really just want a media player that:
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Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)
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Has ReplayGain support (lots do)
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Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)
Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.
Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.
Clementine does all those things.
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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
Fork of Clementine you mean.
I am still using Clementine. Strawberry is missing some features.
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Clementine was the best
Still is. I use it everyday.
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Clementine does all those things.
Yes, bigger than that. I have tried Clementine.
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Yes, bigger than that. I have tried Clementine.
Got it. My initial thought was you wanted to see the cover when it was playing. This makes more sense now. I don't use covers in the catalog part because my library is way too big. I would never be able to scroll through them all!
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I just read that navidrome
Handles large libraries!
Plays well with gigantic music collections (tested with ~900K songs - 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3)
Though, I don't know if any of the supported Subsonic API clients can handle as much...
Gonic works pretty well with my library, and Tempo is fine for a client. I mostly just put stuff on an SD card in my Fiio these days, though.
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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!
I'm currently using Sayonara, but Rythmbox is perfectly fine too.
