Musique vs Lollypop

The UI for Musique is pretty minimal. By not throwing every option in the book into the application, the developers are able to keep the interface clear of any clutter.

There is a queue on the right side of the player, which shows you what is coming up next. This makes it easy to add a new song or remove a song before it plays to be sure that you/your guests stay in the groove. You can also slowly transition to different genres, not to mention plan ahead and adapt as you need to.

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.

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).

This applies for most players in the "Linux world", but not for all. Therefore I consider it worth mentioning.

There is constant improvements, librem and gnome3 is possibly the future.

Lollypop allow you to play music from the web (iTunes charts and search from Spotify).

One example being the conditional use of client side decorations (a.k.a. header bars) depending on the currently active desktop environment.

The only one that can play a lot of files without to stop.

You can add songs to a queue, and then re-order or remove songs as you please. It works similarly to a temporary playlist.

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.