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What's your favorite music player on Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Let's just hope it's better than the music brains tagger itself. It's been some years since I've tried it. I'll admit. The mess it made the last time that has made me reluctance to give it another chance despite generally supporting what they do. I may just be a little OCD about my collection sometimes lol. But if it can actually get the right artist information, etc. Allow me to store stuff in a particular directory structure relatively easily and get cover art. It might stand a chance. I will give the AUR a check here in a bit to see if it has it.

Edit I will give it a little bit more try. But I haven't found any way to configure the data that it's pulling etc. Which is really going to limit it for my purposes. I have a lot of different things. That it's just not getting correctly. I tried only a few albums. But the data it pulled was for a different release with much fewer tracks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For what it’s worth, I have this problem sometimes when an album has multiple releases and you can choose which release to pull tags from via the context menu in Picard. There’s also a pretty powerful scripting language that you can use to specify the directory and file re-naming structure as well. It took me a while to get my structure set up properly but once I did it’s been a life saver in keeping my files organized.

If there’s something in particular you’re trying to achieve that’s not working I’d be happy to try and help!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I hadn't seen that yet. Although unfortunately, my experimenting with the tool ended abruptly last night when the LCD panel on the system went out. I may install it on a different system and see if I can figure out how to select releases that should solve the issue.