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When comparing Tauon Music Box vs Mellow Player, the Slant community recommends Tauon Music Box for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Tauon Music Box is ranked 4th while Mellow Player is ranked 31st.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight and works well on RPi4
Pro Can change the views to be discreet
Pro Has subsonic / airsonic support built right in
Pro Easily able to edit gstreamer command
If you want to get your BT Headphones working.
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 Does not support playlist files
Con Packaging
Only available through the AUR, flatpak, SlackBuilds (unofficial) and NixPkgs (unofficial).
Con Can't make app always on top
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.