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Add to SafariWhen comparing Gnome Music 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 Gnome Music is ranked 37th. 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 Simple clean and minimal interface
Pro Open source
Pro UI design consistent with GNOME desktop environment
Gnome Music is GNOME's default music player. If you use GNOME Desktop Environment, you'll feel familiar with other GNOME Apps like this one.
Pro Stable
Pro System-wide music organizer
Gnome Music automatically seeks and organises your music files throughout your system using Tracker.
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 Cannot change library folder
Con Too Simplistic
It works as a simple music player with a GNOME look, but it has very few features and almost no configuration options. Too bad.
Con Buggy
Gnome Music needs a tracker daemon running in the background and that thing never loads the music. It takes forever for a huge library to be loaded even if it was previously partially loaded.
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.
