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How is it possible that there's no good music player software for Linux like Musicbee for Windows? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please stop me if this is not the appropriate place to speak of issues like this one.

I believe an introduction is due. I have been a Ubuntu user for a little more than a year now and while the whole ecosystem is fantastic and smooth to use, it boggles me that there's still no app that can match the versatility and easiness in use that Musicbee provides. Strawberry pales in comparison, foobar2000 is clunky and clumsy, Rhythmbox is really without any option for control over your library... Even Tauon (the most complete music player I have found so far) becomes overly, uselessly complex in certain moments. What's your take on this issue? What do you use for browsing, editing and playing your music collection? Is there any way we'll ever see something like Musicbee on Linux distros?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is question for each and every open source software ever.

Making new stuff is fun. Polishing it to the point where no one will have problem with it, those last 5-most-boring-percents, is soul sucking.

Do you want music player that someone enjoyed making it? Or you want one where someone that was bored doing it and you don't even know who that is? (this is first time i heard of musicbee, maybe they had fun and were enjoying making it, but i couldn't find any name attached to that software. is it just one guy or multiple teams?)

Even if it wasn't true for musicbee, it is true for most software out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just want a good one. I am a dev myself and can empathize, but still.