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Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It's also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I'm curious what other people are using these days. What's your favorite player?

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[–] eksb 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

mpd + ncmpc

I am but a simple man. All my music is FLAC. It is arranged neatly in folders. I just want to select an album to play. I do not need album covers, playlists, search, streaming, tags, lyrics, analyzers, or scrobbling.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Agreed, with the exception of album covers. I like it all to look nice on my Hidizs when I'm on the go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you discover new music? I'm the type that listen to the same thing over and over again but I realized even I rely entirely on autogenerated playlists of Spotify.

[–] eksb 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes I poke around Wikipedia and see what other artists collaborated with, influenced, or were influenced by artists I like, and buy their albums.

Sometimes I download highly-rated shows from random artists on Internet Archive's Live Music Archive

Sometimes friends recommend stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you download your music?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My client doesn't have to answer that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Almost got him

[–] eksb 7 points 10 months ago

If the artist has a way to buy and download from their website, I do that. Otherwise I buy CDs or vinyl and rip them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is a great idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

More of a gmpc kinda person. Unless there's a better GUI for mpd out there?

There's always mpdas for scrobbling