Been enjoying Rhythmbox, what are your thoughts?
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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!
If you are an audiophile, nothing beat QuodLibet right now.
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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!
Love Rhythmbox! I used it way way back when I first installed Ubuntu (back when it was good) and it was part of a special nostalgic feeling of having been ushered into this new linux world, and I think it lets you rate your songs 1-5 stars (if you want) and I had a lot of fun doing that.
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Rhythmbox has been my main music app for over 15 years now. Every now and then I'll check out other options but I always end up back after a couple days.
I do wish they would give the UI some attention. Nothing major, just a few visual tweaks to bring it inline with modern Gnome (the alternative toolbar plugin is really close)
I personally would like the album cover to be a bit larger
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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.
Just out of curiosity, what advantages do you think cli apps have for this sort of application? Is the experience snappier?
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You can have a look at this superb list for you to test other softwares : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/
Tauon is really, really great. But because it is not the most stable on my system (arch) I mainly use Strawberry which is also great.
Thanks for the tip
Where did you get Tauon from? The AUR? There is an official flatpak release, which I presume would be more stable. -
I think its almost perfect, just need a plugin to be able to show lyrics synchronised with the song
I'm happy with just reading lyrics on the browser lol
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Never heard of it, but looks like a cool project!
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No idea why you want that, but still... does this help any?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/17134/rhythmbox-still-plays-songs-after-exit
So I can have less windows open and cluttered, I like to keep my desktop minimal... And thx for the tip!
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Thanks for the tip
Where did you get Tauon from? The AUR? There is an official flatpak release, which I presume would be more stable. -
Just out of curiosity, what advantages do you think cli apps have for this sort of application? Is the experience snappier?
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)
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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!
Cantata.
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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!
It's an amazing music player and shit podcast app
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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!
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If you are an audiophile, nothing beat QuodLibet right now.
Oooh, I'll have to check this one out. I still dualboot Windows for a couple of things and one of the things I've been missing a lot is a player as good as MusicBee. Strawberry comes pretty close, but not quite. Luckily I've found that MusicBee works really well through Bottles, but I would prefer to use a native application.
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Clementine or strawberry for me
Same for me. I was using foobar2000 back on windows. When I switched to linux I found out I set up my foobar basically the same as vanilla Clementine was set. So I was sold instantly. Later switched to Strawberry, because I felt Clementine is too long dead and it also started to glitch icons on newer qt for me. Strawberry is great.
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Fre:ac seems to run in a wine package.
Isn't it on flathub?
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I like Strawberry, for two reasons:
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It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.
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It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.
I never managed to make Tidal work. How did you do it?
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I'm happy with just reading lyrics on the browser lol
I'm old fashion, I put the synchronised subtitles on the mp3 files manually as a hobby, using Musicolet on Android, but I can see why is not a thing anymore
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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)?
I use k3b for ripping and kid3 for editing metadata
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Oooh, I'll have to check this one out. I still dualboot Windows for a couple of things and one of the things I've been missing a lot is a player as good as MusicBee. Strawberry comes pretty close, but not quite. Luckily I've found that MusicBee works really well through Bottles, but I would prefer to use a native application.
Elisa is also decent if you use KDE, QuodLibet is more on the customizable side.
