When comparing VVAVE Music Player vs Mellow Player, the Slant community recommends Mellow Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Mellow Player is ranked 31st while VVAVE Music Player is ranked 47th. The most important reason people chose Mellow Player is:
It is written in Qt so it requires less resources than a web browser or an electron application.
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Pros
Pro Open source (FOSS)
LGPL licensed.
Pro KDE/Qt-based
Looks great, uses known KDE/Qt controls and integrates with the KDE Plasma desktop (including KDE Connect, MPRIS Controls, KRunner and native notifications).
Pro Convergent
Can be used across platforms on desktop (Linux), Android and Plasma Mobile (Kirigami-based).
Pro Online streaming
You can use it to stream music. It also integrates youtube-dl. It can use your offline music to let you discover new online stream media.
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 Unstable on Wayland
If you even attempt to resize the program, it'll hang indefinitely.
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.
