Quod Libet vs Lollypop

Quod Libet gives the user the necessary tools to edit and organize their library from within the app. There is support for tags as well to help you quickly find the music to fit your mood. To help you sort through large libraries, you can use the filters which help filter by genera or other search perimeters.

Quod Libet offers many plugins including Last FM sync, lyrics support, and iOS sync.

Quod Libet has powerful search syntax options, which are very useful for creating smartlists or querying a big music collection.

Despite very good library management capability, Quod Libet is easy to use. The base music player doesn't have too many features, making it a breeze to use. However, if you want to go deeper you can install plugins. These plugins can sometimes add complexity, but it's up to you what you do or don't want.

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Quod Libet has multiple viewing modes, including Folder (File System) hierarchy view. The only other program to have a good folder view would be Sayonara.

There are a few controls that allow the user to change how the player looks.

Fully functional and takes up little space on the hard drive.

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.