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When comparing Strawberry Music Player vs Mellow Player, the Slant community recommends Strawberry Music Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Strawberry Music Player is ranked 10th while Mellow Player is ranked 31st.
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Pros
Pro Alive Clementine fork
Pro Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
Pro Free
Pro Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
Pro Open source
Pro Possibility to convert songs to many different music file formats
Pro Streaming support for Tidal
Pro Smart playlist feature
Pro In-program tag editing
Pro Ability to play through sftp
Pro Native
It is written in Qt so it requires less resources than a web browser or an electron application.
Pro AppImage
It is available as AppImage so you can easily try it.
Cons
Con No song ratings
Con No Spotify support
Con No internet radios
Con No smart playlists
Con No podcast support
Con QML
It written in Qt-QML which ignores all Human Interface Guidelines and make the app look like a web page.
Con Not native
It's using qt5-webengine which is not much different from electron / a webbrowser.