Linux

Qmmp

For the most part I use ncmpcpp with mpd, but sometimes whenever I just want to listen to a single file I use mpv --no-video instead....

MPD + Cantata
For the most part I just lump all my music into one playlist regardless of album or genre, but day to day I also use several different computers, and I find MPD to be the best for syncing configurations across all of them. Cantata also allows me to see album artwork and track information really easily and has good touchscreen support compared to terminal-based MPD clients.

I stream from my Navidrome server, Supersonic is great.

VLC because it works with everything and it doesn't try to organise my music collection for me.

mpd + ncmpcpp

Nothing honestly. Couldn't find a music player that doesn't look like a file manager, has good search and queue features and doesn't make strong assumptions about how music is organized. Tried to run Musicolet through waydroid but it doesn't support Nvidia gpus

Strawberry [clementine fork]

Strawberry.

Our desktops are almost identical, lol.

No one really. I've tried a bunch but never found one that felt just right. Clementine is the one that gets the closest.

I really wish MusicBee had a Linux port, it's the only thing I miss from Windows.

How do you get dark mode in Strawberry under KDE? I remember trying to follow some guides and not having much luck. But that was a long time ago at this point. Does this "just work" now?

Probably a tie between audacious, strawberry, and qmmp

I simply play music using mpv.

Clementine

Rythmbox. Syncs to my iPod Classic.

mpd + Emacs frontend. There are dozens of us

Clementine

My distro came with Rhythmbox and I've pretty much just stuck with it. It does podcasts and radio which I appreciate and I can also edit track metadata in it. For playing music from my file browser I use MPV because it's fast.

lightweight media server Super fast indexing. Smooth web client. Also supports the subsonic api. I've been using the web client locally for some years now. I can also access my library on the go with substreamer on Android which is great. https://github.com/epoupon/lms

Rhythmbox

I'm a fan of cmus. simple and easy.

VLC when I'm listening to local files, ncspot for Spotify.

G4Music

Strawberry+1

strawberry-qt5 from AUR

Strawberry if I had to have something visual with buttons.

cmus right now because it loads my rather large library in a split second. mpd works great as well.

More important than the player for me is sorting, though. Beets is my saviour. I could never sort the 5 or 6 albums I get by hand and tag them by hand.

I used to like deadbeef as well, quod libet is great. There really is something for everyone when it comes to something for music. If only there were as many great email clients.

Just mpv for me. Simplest and most versatile option

Sayonara

I agree with Strawberry. I'd love if Music Bee ever got a linux port or equivalent though

if I'm using gui on my laptop, then amberol

if I'm using my headless server, then you can't get anything better than mpd