Guayadeque vs Lollypop

Most other players start rather slowly. This one is written in C++, and the end result is excellent speed.

Once installed, Guyadeque only uses about 15 MBs.

After music has finished playing, Guadayeque will play a similar type of music.

It automatically make a playlist song-by-song you hear from your music file. It finds similar songs. So, as you listen to a song an endless playlist with similar songs is about to happen..

Last.fm shows your profile in the software and also displays info about the artist.
Lyrics are downloaded automatically when you want to see them.
Cross-fading between songs keeps music constantly coming, which is very important when using music to block out ambient sounds.
VU (volume unit) Meters give you something to look at while the music is playing.

Guayadeque has a clean yet customizable appearance.

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.