The best looking and feeling music player I’ve tried is Aonsoku, connected to a navidrome server.
Strawberry. Layout is great. It’s cross platform so it works on Windows/MacOS too.
I wish it had plugins like foobar though. I keep foobar for the ABX plugin when I encode music.
Strawberry or VLC. I wish someone would port Winamp but Strawberry is pretty close. I miss my skins. Showing my age here.
For clones of WinAmp for Linux, there’s qmmp (which I use) and I believe some distros still have an xmms package (xmms2 is a bit of a different beast). xmms hasn’t seen an update in a long time but like old versions of WinAmp it still works. Both of them have some support for classic WinAmp skins. Neither one supports the full feature sets of WinAmp such as the media library or video playback, so it depends on what parts of WinAmp you’re looking for.
WinAmp also runs under wine and basic stuff works, but last time I tried it I ran into issues with some of the plugins and the basic stuff is covered by qmmp so other than nostalgia reasons I didn’t really see much point in running WinAmp under Wine.
Linamp: It really whips the Alpaca’s ass!
(I wish this was real, lol)
VLC forever and always
All the cool people use VLC
Strawberry
Seconding this. I used foobar2000 until I switched to Linux, and Strawberry has been the best replacement I’ve found (actually better imo)!
Only downside is no DSD support.
I really enjoy Tauon.
Seconding Tauon!!
Cmus or mixxx
VLC.
But then I’m one of those strange people who doesn’t listen to music much, so maybe I’m missing a trick.
I listen to music a lot, and I also just use VLC. I have a well-sorted media collection and just drag whatever files/folders I want into VLC.
Been using vlc for… 15 years? Maybe more!
Fooyin is my local player, it’s basically Foobar2000.
Finamp is what I use to stream songs from my Jellyfin server.
Gapless
mpv. I have very simple taste.
Same, but that’s not a dedicated music player.
Same, but that’s not a dedicated music player.
Is it not? May I ask if there is a specific reason?
I will admit I also use mpv like my default video player, but it still is my default audio player and use it like one, with playlists and stuff like that ;)
A dedicated music player would not just play the file, but could organize, show album covers, etc. I don’t use one, like you I use mpv for pretty much everything.
Kind of splitting hairs there imo. MPV does show the album art if it is on the audiofile metadata for example. I think cmus would fail to be a dedicated music player given your definition.
It still clearly does all the “…,etc” that I mentioned. I don’t have skin in this game. I think of a “dedicated audio player” as one that as, uh, dedicated to playing audio. cmus and the like sure fit that. I think of things that can play audio, but don’t do much else, like mpg123, mpv, vlc, et. al, as not falling into that category. Not that they have issues playing audio. Just a design thing.
Thx, I had not considered those aspects.
Rhythmbox for me. I was using Spotify for a long time but I’ve been dialing that usage back a lot this year. Another factor was that I have an older PC and when I play games it uses more resources than I’d like. I took the time and setup my playlists in Rhythmbox and I’ve been happy. It’s not winning any design awards but it does the job.
Feishin, connected to my jellyfin server.
I also use Feishin, but connected to my navidrome server lol. Its such a good looking music player
I’ve been happy with Strawberry so far. The default music player in Gnome is okay-ish but I wanted a music player that can be set up with multiple music folders and Strawberry can do that.
Fooyin’s great so far.
That’s what I use but honestly I find the UI frustrating. Its difficult to search and make playlists
I came over to Fooyin from Foobar2k, so the UI translated right over.
