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Clementine
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Slow development
Very little development work has been going on for a while as of mid-2017. Nobody is responding to bug reports.
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Tag editing
Clementine features competent tag managing for all music files, be it album art or just simple text entries.
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Resource exhaustive
Clementine uses up to two orders of magnitude more CPU than VLC and takes up about 180 MB of memory, plus additional memory for spawned processes (tag-readers), while VLC uses 80 MB with no other processes.
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Intuitive and fast to set up
Clementine is easy to get up and running with lyrics, equalizer, online info, etc., within minutes after installation.
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Doesn't allow gapless playback
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Sensible UI
A fork of the 1.X line of Amarok, Clementine favours usability over design trends.
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Bit perfect output no longer configurable
Audiophiles want to play their expensive HD albums.
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Very good folder organization
Organizes your music folder based on the tags of your library.
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Too bloated by default with things like LastFM that can't be removed
When you install it, you get ton of internet radios and services plugins, that you can't remove, only turn off. There is also useless stuff like artist info that doesn't work and stuff.
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Remote app for Android
There is a very good remote app for Android. The app lets you do a lot: from the usual volume controls to checking the lyrics on your phone. You can even download the songs from Clementine onto your phone.
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Not customizable
It doesn't allow you to modify its interface by dragging toolbars around etc.
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Supports a lot of online services
Clementine includes support for services such as Ampache, Google Play Music, Spotify, and many internet radio stations such as Jamendo and Icecast. It's also possible to search all available sources (local and online) at once, as well as mixed content playlists.
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Horrible user interface and confusing layout
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Built-in equalizer for custom sound
There is a built-in equalizer with many presets from genre-specific rock, pop, and party, to experiences such as large hall and live. You can also tweak it yourself and name your own preset.
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Ugly
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Creates playlists based on past music you listened to
Clementine gathers the user's listening data to use for smart playlists. Clementine uses your listening history to play music similar to the music you play most - which typically is music you will like but maybe haven't discovered yet.
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Goes crazy with CPU and RAM
Takes its toll on your system's CPU and RAM.
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Built-in format conversion
Users can format any of their music files to a different format with Clementine's built-in format conversion tool.
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Default settings aren't great
Although this is subjective, you might have to do some tweaking before you like it.
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Can display song lyrics
Fetches lyrics from several lyric providers.
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Ugly ressource hog with no features and buggy without hotfix
And yet Nr. 1 recommended because of nerds being accustomed.
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Looks good and is really responsive
Unlike some other players in this list, Clementine doesn't seem to go unresponsive in the Ubuntu 16.04 system and looks really good with options for Visualization too.
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Slow to start in Gnome/Cinnamon
It takes about the same time to start as an IDE or Photoshop.
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Decent library management
Clementine allows the user to move and organize audio files easily. Some examples include the following: It's easy to find a specific album song (find artist, select album, select song). It's easy to add songs to a playlist and queue the songs. It's easy to rename files from their metadata (artist, album, song number, etc). It's easy to add cover images. There are options to find duplicates, untagged songs, etc.
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Not a lot of documentation
Clementine does not offer a lot of documentation, which can make discovering its features a bit difficult.
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Buggy
Clementine is probably the most fully featured music player for Linux, however it has its own issues. It crashes and experiences occasional memory leaks that can slow down your system.
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Database regularly messes up
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Sometimes messes up taskbar
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Last.fm support is broken
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Cannot choose which tag profile to use
I use Tag2 (ID3:2.4) which doesn't seem to be the default tag used and I can't see a way to choose this.
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No way to search on filename
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License:
GPL-3.0-or-later
Release Date:
2016-19-04
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Mopidy
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Capable of streaming music from cloud services via extensions
Extensions permit the streaming of music from cloud services such as Spotify, SoundCloud, and Google Play Music.
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Many front-ends
MPD clients and HTTP extensions/clients can connect to your Mopidy server. Front-ends range from web front-ends, mobile applications, to even console clients.
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Available as a Docker file
Mopidly's Docker file can be found here allowing for quick setup.
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MPV
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Integrates with streaming services
When used with youtube-dl.
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Minimal theme support
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Needs no additional codecs
Everything MPV needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed.
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Lack of a typical GUI can be jarring to some
The minimal interface comes at the cost of beginner-friendliness. You need to know keyboard shortcuts by heart, settings are set in text files, right-clicking won't bring up a menu, etc.
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Minimal interface
Click to open files and get Video with sound (and passthrough of codecs like DTS etc) for a perfect cinema experience. Works okay for many files. Default window is not much more than a title bar - and if you drag/resize the window it resizes the video and leaves no empty areas. There is no visible control or display unless you use mouse/keyboard over the window. This is the best player to use unless you're going for a media center (then use MPV based Plex Media Player to display and play the Plex Server library).
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Up to date
Always up to date, rapid development.
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Extremely responsive
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Caches livestreams
Intelligently caches livestreams and enables jumping within the cached stream.
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Fast
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Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Android
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Audacious
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Streamlined player not weighed down by unnecessary options
Audacious is a classic music player at heart that has not felt the need to weigh itself down with an assortment of unnecessary options. Advanced functionality can be attained through plugins available from within the program.
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No manual sorting fields
There is no option to add one's own categories to the sorting fields.
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Tons of plugins
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Updates are not very frequent
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Lightweight
My audacious uses only 18.5 MB of RAM. It has a Winamp visualization style that's very minimized and convenient.
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No bit perfect output past 24bit
Audiophiles require this, and while most users might not notice a difference, audiophiles will appreciate the improved audio quality.
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Support for Winamp themes
Audacious can switch from its GTK interface to one that matches the looks of the famous Winamp player. What's even better is that this interface supports any Winamp themes, which allows for more options.
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Buggy
For example when using Visual Studio Code and Audacious you get flicked out to the gnome login screen.
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Folder oriented player, but able to play any music container and highly configurable
Lets you play, delete and even change metadata of your music files.
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The easiest player for multiple types of files
It plays dts, aac multichannel, etc.
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Compatibility with most media formats
It's able to reproduce most of media formats without external plugins.
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Windows, Linux, BSD
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Rhythmbox
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Buggy and slow when there's a large music collection
Can't cope with a large music collection.
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Loads of features
Rhythmbox allows you to extract CDs to MP3s while listening, and you can also burn CDs from playlists. You can listen to Last.fm and podcasts through Rhythmbox, which has support for lyrics and more.
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Not crossplatform
The only bad part of RhythmBox is that I cannot install it on other OS's.
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Plugins add only the features you want
Rhythmbox has built-in support for first and third party plugins. Instead of adding a bunch of features not everyone will use, you can download just the plugins that you want.
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No album artist field
Most other modern music players come with an Album Artist Field when sorting music. Collaboration is very common these days and often a song would feature multiple artists, but sometimes it's easier to just sort for Album Artists. It's a rather simple feature, yet Rhythmbox has repeatedly shot down its users for making that request.
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Podcast management
Rhythmbox features built-in podcast management.
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No folder browse/add-to-playlist view
So few music players seem to let you browse by your directory structure and add songs to a playlist that way. That's unfortunate because it's a really useful feature and eliminates the problem of mistagged music.
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Pre-packaged!
Rhythmbox comes pre-packaged with distros like Ubuntu, so you can just start listening to your favorite music - no apt-get install!
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Still no built-in equilizer
Rhythmbox has been around for a good while now and yet there is still no default built-in equalizer. An equalizer allows users to tweak the audio to their preference. It can also help compensate for hardware (for example, lots of headphones are bass heavy, but to get a more balanced sound an equalizer can tune the bass down a touch).
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Internet radio
Rhythmbox has built-in support for users so that they can add their own streaming audio / internet radio channels.
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Crashes often when there's a large music collection
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Reliable
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No CUE file support
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Good organization
Music can be browsed by the usual artist and album, but Rhythmbox also allows for genres which aren't supported by all music players. It also has a very useful queue box.
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Sayonara
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Looks really cool, and does have cover art
It is so flexible it respects your local theme, or can be set to a theme, very slick, independent dark mode. And yes, it does show your cover art!
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Playlist driven play back
If you install Sayonara, hook it up with your music directory, and want to have it play by clicking a music file and let you surprise yourself with its shuffle... it won't. It will play that double clicked song, but then just plain stop untill you double click that next one. To have it just play through your collection, you first have to make a playlist, and only then let Sayonara play that (randomly). No deal breaker, but certainly an non-intuitive hassle preventing "click that in my library, play and don't bother me no more".
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Closes to panel while playing...
It closes to the icon (tray) on your panel, while it keeps playing. Clicking the icon you can open it again, or pause/ stop/ play it there. Great to get it out of your way when you're working with cool sounds in the background.
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Dynamic playback
Sayonara works with a dynamic mode shuffle method, that quite often eliminates any surprises and comes with "the same" suggestions when your collection is smaller. It can be switched off though (bottom left switches, under your playlist) if you don't like it. All the options will require you to "look into it" though, since it is somewhat confusing...
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Does conky...
If you are one of those who like to close your player to panel and see what it plays in your conky? Sayonara can do that over dbus, whether you like just artist and title, a progress bar, or even the cover art in your conky.
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Sorts by the users options
Has everything you may need onboard.
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Many plugins standard
Has many plugins out of the box, e.g. internet "radio"streams, equaliser, sprectrum analyser, bookmarks, audio converter, broadcast, playlists, lyrics for the song you're playing, and more. It's the full music enjoyment experience. If you like minimalistic, Sayonara can do that too.
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GPLv3
Release Date:
2011
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Open Source
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Music Player Daemon
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Multiple frontends available
MPD is a music player server that requires a separate client for user interaction. There are many frontends available, with the most popular being ncmpcpp.
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Not a music player, only a music server
You know how you need your browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) to access web pages? The browser is what YOU touch, see, and interface with, but in order for it to give you anything it must connect to a server that "serves" appropriate content. mpd is the server in this analogy, NOT the thing you actually use. The front-ends that are available for mpd, now those are music players.
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Features provide a good music experience
While mostly bare-bones, Music Player Daemon does include a few features which help make it perform well. Buffer support ensures that your music continues to play without interruption even when your system is under an extremely heavy (but temporary) load, gapless playback starts loading a song just before it's needed so that it's ready to play the instant the last song ends. Meanwhile, crossfading allows your songs to blend into one another for continuous playback.
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May not conform to how you organise your library
MPD expects you to have all your music in a single folder (music_directory) and use symbolic links to retrieve other resources.
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Easy to use with various outputs
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Poor tagging support
Does not support enough tag types.
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Requires a refresh every time you add music
MPD won't automatically refresh it's library - if you add music to your music folder, you will have to manually tell MPD to refresh or else it won't add the new music.
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MPlayer
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Needs no additional codecs
Everything MPlayer needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed.
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Not much documentation on the use and configuration
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Easy shortcut keys
Quick skip ahead buttons and other shortcut keys.
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Contrary to review, some media that play well in vlc does not play in mplayer
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No bugs , no lag in the video display
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Doesn't support directory playback
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Works via CLI and has multiple frontends to choose from
Some of the more popular frontends include Deepin Media Player, GNOME MPlayer, KPlayer, KMPlayer, Rosa Media Player, SMPlayer and Xt7-Player.
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Lacks a built-in visualizer
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Multiple forks
Some of the more popular forks include MPlayer2 and mpv.
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Nice theme available to choose from
Also, the video window is separate from the main window making it less cluttered while playing audio
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Windows, Mac, Linux
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DeaDBeeF
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A lot of plugins
DeadBeef has a lot of different plugins users can use to customize the interface, controls, and options.
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shuffle mode doesn't play an entire huge playlist (over 25 days)
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Lightweight
DeadBeef uses few system resources, making it great for low end systems and for those requiring a media player that uses as few resources as possible.
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GTK-App
So there is basically no integration into non-GTK desktops.
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Extremely customizable
DeaDBeef has support for title formatting scripting, like foobar2000, which allows you to customize group patterns, the converter output, the window titles, etc. to your needs. DeaDBeeF also has a Design Mode, which allows you to add new widgets to the interface and move/delete existing ones.
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Terrible GUI
stop reinventing (ugly) guis. play music and get out of my way.
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Uses GTK2 or GTK3
Users are able to choose a GTK2 or GTK3 build of the application to use within DeaDBeeF.
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Fails when opening a CUE file
Doesn't work even after 30 minutes of tweaking. Not as good as Audacious.
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ALSA plugin allows bit-perfect pipeline to DAC
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Ubuntu's sound menu buttons don't work
DeaDBeeF shows up in the sound menu; however, clicking the next/previous buttons doesn't do anything.
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Supports single-album CUE files
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Not as many options as other players
When it comes to options DeaDBeef may not have as many as other more prominent music playing applications.
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Smooth and easy
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Clunky
I've seen people showing lyrics - but I can't figure out how to make that work. It's very difficult to use the 'design' function (unlike Guayadeque) to re-arrange and design the interface beyond something like a music list and artwork...
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Offers a ReplayGain scanner out-of-the-box
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Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD
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Quod Libet
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Great for organizing and editing large collections
Quod Libet gives the user the necessary tools to edit and organize their library from within the app. There is support for tags as well to help you quickly find the music to fit your mood. To help you sort through large libraries, you can use the filters which help filter by genera or other search perimeters.
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(not) customizable
If you get a player, you want to make it yours. QL has a lot of stuff preconfigured, which you can't make as you want it. So base is great, but never makes it to be come yours.
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Lots of plugins available
Quod Libet offers many plugins including Last FM sync, lyrics support, and iOS sync.
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Doesn't support playlist files
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Powerful search syntax
Quod Libet has powerful search syntax options, which are very useful for creating smartlists or querying a big music collection.
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The GUI could have more eye-candy
There aren't any icons within the GUI, just text. This makes it feel more like a library management tool than an audio player. A little polish would go a long way here.
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Easy to use
Despite very good library management capability, Quod Libet is easy to use. The base music player doesn't have too many features, making it a breeze to use. However, if you want to go deeper you can install plugins. These plugins can sometimes add complexity, but it's up to you what you do or don't want.
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Rhythmbox clone
Can't find many differences with Rhythmbox.
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Integrates with IoT / home audio
Sonos, Squeezebox, ...
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GTK app
It will need a bit more of resources in a non qt environment.
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Built-in Soundcloud support
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Plugins could be better integrated
Lyrics are not downloaded automatically in Quod Libet, while simply viewing lyrics could be made a lot more accessible. There is also little information pulled from last.fm - scrubbing works, as well as there being no artist info or suggestions for similar artists.
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Folder view
Quod Libet has multiple viewing modes, including Folder (File System) hierarchy view. The only other program to have a good folder view would be Sayonara.
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Uses quite a bit of memory
Quod Libet can use up to 130 MB.
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Customizable looks
There are a few controls that allow the user to change how the player looks.
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Fast & Small
Fully functional and takes up little space on the hard drive.
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cmus
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CLI only
CLI makes Cmus clean, fast and minimalist.
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No album art
cmus does not display album art
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Does not use a lot of memory
Cmus only uses about 15 MB. This is a very small and light media player, which is ideal for people with low end hardware.
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CLI only
No graphical interface is available for cmus. Everything is done through CLI (command line interface).
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Good library structure
A lot of music players may act more like playlist viewers rather than a music library. cmus sorts by Artist > Year > Album.
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Difficult to use
Cmus uses odd keyboard shortcuts such as "C" to pause, "E" to add songs to queue, and "4" to edit the queue.
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Works very well with tags from MusicBrainz database
cmus will factor in additional data from the MusicBrainz database while sorting. For example sort orders for arist or album, and the original release date for an album (in the case of a re-release).
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Can't play wavepack files
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Fast
A lot of music players will be slow when starting if they have huge libraries, but CMus starts fast no matter the library size.
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Customizable keybindings for a personal experience
You can add keybindings for just about anything - including seeking (forward/backwards 1 minute, for example) which isn't supported by all music players.
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No mouse required
cmus does not require a mouse as it runs in the terminal
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Open source extensions and scripts
On GitHub you can find the official WIKI where there are a dozen extensions and scripts from color themes to a lyrics viewer and the ability to play YouTube songs.
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qmmp
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Offers some skinning options
Qmmp allows the user to drastically change its look via skins. It can use Winamp and Xmms skins, as well as a list of 12 skins made specifically for qmmp that can be found here.
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Interface is not particularly intuitive
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Small single-window interface
Unlike more popular players that draw a huge window taking up the entire screen, with tons of knobs and menus popping out in new windows, qmmp gives you a single tiny window (that looks pretty much the same as Winamp used to look) with the basic controls and the playlist. The rest is available through a menu.
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Lightweight and supports almost all formats
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Plugin based
You can extend it with plugins.
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Qt-App
No matter what OS or desktop you use Qmmp will integrate well
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Clean and simple interface
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Depends on libaries
It depends on libaries instead of big fat toolkits like gstreamer.
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integrated file browser
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Supports cue sheets
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Guayadeque
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Starts fast
Most other players start rather slowly. This one is written in C++, and the end result is excellent speed.
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Development seems to stall since 2016
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Doesn't use much memory
Once installed, Guyadeque only uses about 15 MBs.
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Sidebar lists multiple artists as one artist
A song with multiple artists labeled like "Artist 1; Artist 2; Artist 3" will not be displayed under all three artists, but rather under an artist labeled as "Artist 1; Artist 2; Artist 3." This makes actions as simple as queuing up an album with multiple artists a huge pain.
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Well-implemented auto playlist
After music has finished playing, Guadayeque will play a similar type of music.
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Songs with differing artists in an album are displayed as separate albums
Suppose Album 1 by Album Artist A has a lot of songs by Artist A, with one song that features Artist B. Album 1 will get fractured across different artists in the sidebar.
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Handles large music databases very well
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Interface is too busy
There's a lot shown on each of Guayeque's screens, and the more important buttons (play/pause and skip buttons) are small and hidden in the top left corner. Most users use music players in the background, meaning they will be switching back and forth with whatever else they're doing. As such, having larger buttons in a more prime location would be preferable.
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Smart play
It automatically make a playlist song-by-song you hear from your music file. It finds similar songs. So, as you listen to a song an endless playlist with similar songs is about to happen..
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Sometimes freezes and crashes
This can happen if you change some settings i.e. add or remove tabs etc.
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Lots of niceties / options / integration
Last.fm shows your profile in the software and also displays info about the artist. Lyrics are downloaded automatically when you want to see them. Cross-fading between songs keeps music constantly coming, which is very important when using music to block out ambient sounds. VU (volume unit) Meters give you something to look at while the music is playing.
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Clean appearance
Guayadeque has a clean yet customizable appearance.
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gmusicbrowser
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Great with large libraries
This program uses a tagging system to help you find the music you're looking for, and can even help find duplicates. It will also automatically sync with a folder, meaning you don't have to manually initiate a scan.
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It won't install on Linux Mint 21
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Cool AutoTagger
The smartest auto tagger out there. It has an intelligent regular expression system to tag the files based on the filename contents. If the name contains something like Band -Album - Track -Title www.download.mp3, the system lets you filter the metadata fields.
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Held back by performance issues
Can be very slow, uses a lot of resources, and has a decent amount of lag when going between songs.
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Large assortment of layouts
You can pretty much emulate your favorite media player layout inside of gmusicbrowser as it has a large assortment of pre-made layouts as well as an insurmountable amount of options for custom layouts.
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Doesn't support media keys
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Remembers playing/pause status even after restart
With most other options, you have to start the player, wait a few seconds, then click Play. Gmusicbrowser spares you the wait and plays music automatically upon startup (if you were playing music when you closed it previously).
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Unusual keyboard shortcuts
Space does not pause, for instance. This would have been useful, as hitting the space bar is easier than finding the play/pause button - most music players use the space bar in this fashion.
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Intelligent auto playlists
Automatically generated playlists with the criteria you decide. Great for big collections.
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Some plugins are outdated
Several plugins works on older versions of libraries no longer available for recent distros.
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Poor library management
Initial load may have issue skipping parts of ones library, re-scanning may not resolved the issue. It also may tax ones CPU quite a lot, during these load attempts.
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No WMA support
For those with older libraries that may still have unconverted WMA files, this can be a non-starter.
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Large assortment of features and layouts may be confusing
Some people may find all of gmusicbrowsers layout and options daunting to figure out.
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XMMS
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2
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Pro
Support for Winamp themes
XMMS is able to use any Winamp skin available.
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Looks are dated and may be unappealing
XMMS is pretty long in the tooth now and it's design definitely reflects that.
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Simple and familiar music player
Many users should be pretty familiar with the interface as it has been built to match that of the popular Winamp player.
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Spotify
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Pros
6
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Huge collection of music and fast access to newly released songs
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music. The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
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Free account have lots of ads
If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else.
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Related artists
Helps to find new authors based on your previous picks
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Discovery is terrible
The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it.
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Client's functionality can be extended via third-party apps
Spotify desktop client allows for third-party apps. They extend the functionality of Spotify and many of them offer new ways of discovering music. Noteworthy apps include Moodagent, Last.fm, Swarm.fm, ShareMyPlaylists, The Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Shuffler.fm.
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Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
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Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
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Has a free version
A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music.
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Weekly Discover playlist uses a great algorithm
A playlist generated by Spotify based on your listening habits and released every Monday. The algorithm used by this playlist is great and stands out from its competitors.
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Platforms:
Web; Android; iOS; Linux; Windows; MacOS
Playlist Sharing:
Yes
User-Created Playlists:
Yes
Offline download:
Yes
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VLC
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Pros
13
Cons
4
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Pro
Free, open source, and cross-platform
VLC is licensed under the CC-SA v3.0+ and available on Windows, OSX, and Linux with source code available here.
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Not really meant to be a music player
VLC is made to be a video player. Therefore, it won't carry out actions such as managing your music library.
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Simple to setup and use
VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.
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Lacks libraries and advanced music player features
VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.
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Very versatile and easy to use
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Absence of personalization
VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.
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Doesn't require additional codecs
Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
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Contains some insignificant but irritating flaws
Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.
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Tons of advanced settings
Besides basic configurations, video player has an extensive amount of adjustable settings.
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Doesn't manage your music library for you
You organize your music into folders any way you want. Want to play an album? Drag and drop. No tags, no confusion, no fluff. Easy.
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Can be almost completely keyboard-driven
VLC includes keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The video player can be controlled with simple and customizable keyboard commands.
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Surprisingly Lightest on Resources
Yes. Lightest. Even better than the ones known to be light. Both when playing music, only a single song or when playing a video. Either in terms of Ram and Cpu. Compared with almost all, including the ones from Windows like mpc-hc .. or light ones from Linux like Alsa Player, Audacious, SmPlayer .
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Can play every format video available (as of 2017)
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Includes Blu-Ray playback support
Blu-Ray playback support was added on July 13th, 2014. It allows playing back DRM-free Blu-Rays with the help of libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus.
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Supports a GUI interface and an ncurses terminal interface
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Can easily stream music across your home network from any device on the network
Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package
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Large amount of extensions
VLC has a large amount of extensions.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, AppleTV
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Lollypop
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Pros
11
Cons
5
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Super intuitive way of organizing and browsing albums and artists
You can view all the albums you have in one long list. Clicking on one of them will bring a popup at the bottom of the screen where you will see a list of all the songs on that album.
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GTK App
Its a GTK app so integration in other desktops is terrible it also uses GNOMEs ClientSideDecorations so it will break many window managers.
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Works fast and reliably
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No equalizer
Lollypop still does not have an equalizer.
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Super flexible layout
The latest version has a good full-screen layout and is very responsive. Goes very smoothly from full screen to minimal player (also being a GTK+ app).
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Good party mode
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Integrates with the MPRIS sound menu
This applies for most players in the "Linux world", but not for all. Therefore I consider it worth mentioning.
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No In-App Volume Control (0.9.242)
It has no in-app volume control, it has to be managed through system 'Sound control/Applications'
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Huge development
There is constant improvements, librem and gnome3 is possibly the future.
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Requires a well organized music collection
Lollypop will be a pain to use if music is badly tagged. The setup is a one time thing, but it can be a pain to organize a large library.
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Cloud music
Lollypop allow you to play music from the web (iTunes charts and search from Spotify).
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Integrates well with many desktop environments
One example being the conditional use of client side decorations (a.k.a. header bars) depending on the currently active desktop environment.
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Good party mode
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Clean, light and works very well.
The only one that can play a lot of files without to stop.
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Queue option lets you change what's playing on the fly
You can add songs to a queue, and then re-order or remove songs as you please. It works similarly to a temporary playlist.
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Online radio integration
The newest version features a nice interface for adding, browsing, and playing online radio stations. This gives you access to more music than you would normally have, which can help expand your music library for free.
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mp3blaster
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Awesome sound quality!
Absolutely beats the quality from SMPlayer with mpv in the background.
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Robust playlist support
mp3blaster has great playlist support, especially when compared to other terminal music players as many don't have playlist support at all.
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Shrotcut keys shown at the top of the app
mp3blaster, by default shows the shortcut keys at the top of the player, making it easy to see how to control the app.
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yarock
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Pros
3
Cons
5
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Con
Doesn't support playlist files
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Easy to switch between different collections
Yarock's database supports multiple music collections, which can be switched between easily.
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No working packages
Almost impossible to get it to install and work.
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Does not meddle with your tunes
If you have spent your precious time crafting your music collection the way you like it and don't want any 'jumped up alarm clocks' renaming and altering your tags, Yarock is a good choice for you.
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No ability for mass tag correction
In yarock, album covers can't be added to the files, meaning there's a lack of music fingerprint technology.
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Multiple views
Yarock offers multiple views when browsing one's music collection, including artist, album, or track.
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Lacks music fingerprinting ability
This application does not have any music fingerprinting abilities such as musicbrainz, which limits the apps usefulness.
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UI may be confusing
First-time users may find the UI un-intuitive.
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Platforms:
Linux
License:
GPL v3
Price:
Free
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