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Been enjoying Rhythmbox, what are your thoughts?

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  • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

    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 πŸ˜†

    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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    It's an amazing music player and shit podcast app

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    • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

      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 πŸ˜†

      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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      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.

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        If you are an audiophile, nothing beat QuodLibet right now.

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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.

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          Clementine or strawberry for me

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          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.

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            Isn't it on flathub?

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              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.

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              I never managed to make Tidal work. How did you do it?

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              • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                I'm happy with just reading lyrics on the browser lol

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                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)?

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                  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.

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                    Elisa is also decent if you use KDE, QuodLibet is more on the customizable side.

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                    • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                      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 πŸ˜†

                      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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                      Lightweight? I guess things have changed in the last 15+ years... I personally settled on Sayonara. Then I discovered Nuclear. Still undecided.

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                      • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                        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 πŸ˜†

                        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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                        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.

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                        • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                          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 πŸ˜†

                          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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                          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.

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                          • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                            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 πŸ˜†

                            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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                            Clementine was the best

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                            • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                              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 πŸ˜†

                              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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                              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.

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                                Clementine was the best

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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.

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                                • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                                  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.

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                                  Musicbrainz picard has an option to tag files based on acustic fingerprinting

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                                  • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                                    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 πŸ˜†

                                    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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                                    I've been enjoying Tauon, it does the things I want

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                                    • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                                      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 πŸ˜†

                                      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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                                      Are there any music players that will play my mp3s and stuff but also let me play audio from youtube or spotify without logging in? On android I use Musify, which does this but is a little wonky.

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                                        I'd rather use Lollypop.

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                                        I am also a fan. Nicely shows album art, and has the "play similar" feature which I find to be very useful. I just pick one album I know I want to listen to, and it chooses the subsequent albums.

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                                        • merci3@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                                          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 πŸ˜†

                                          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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                                          It literally hasn’t changed even a tiny bit since I first saw it in 2006 πŸ™‚

                                          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
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