I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It’s so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme 😆

How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y’all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!

  • vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    3 days ago

    I also use Rhythmbox, the UI is clean and simple. Other music players either are too complicated (UI has too much clutter, play queues) or want to automatically import all audio files in my home directory into the library, which is annoying. But to be fair, I haven’t tried a lot of other players, because I’m happy using Rhythmbox.

    • Dlolor@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Oooh, I’ll have to check this one out. I still dualboot Windows for a couple of things and one of the things I’ve been missing a lot is a player as good as MusicBee. Strawberry comes pretty close, but not quite. Luckily I’ve found that MusicBee works really well through Bottles, but I would prefer to use a native application.

    • maracuya@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      I am also a fan. Nicely shows album art, and has the “play similar” feature which I find to be very useful. I just pick one album I know I want to listen to, and it chooses the subsequent albums.

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I use strawberry now, which is a clementine derivative. Having my library in one column on the side and just pulling stuff from the library to a variable custom playlist is my preferred player style. Exaile is also like this, and deadbeef too if your library is organized and you add the filebrowser plugin. I use strawberry over those two because it’s the only one I can get from the main arch repositories and I try to minimize AUR usage.

      Pragha actually fits this style too and is still in the arch repos, but I don’t understand why because it stopped getting upstream updates years ago and is a buggy mess compared to strawberry with no advantages.

      I definitely miss the clementine remote though, being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don’t know any other player that has similar.

      • pirat@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don’t know any other player that has similar.

        Well, you can remote control playback in Kodi through apps like Kore, and browse the libraries, but it’s a totally different experience in comparison to dedicated music player apps. Kodi is more like software for a home theater PC, a.k.a. media center.

        The best viable solution I can think of, that includes a desktop UI and remote control from a phone, would be hosting a Jellyfin server for the music library, then using the client app for Android to remotely control another client app running on your desktop. I do that everyday (but mostly for video content), since I’m using my phone to control playback on a Raspberry Pi running Kodi with the “Jellycon” client add-on, but that could be any other Jellyfin client, such as a regular Jellyfin desktop client.

        • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, I wasn’t considering kodi and jellyfin as music players because they serve a broader purpose than that, but I guess they should count. I do have jellyfin set up for movies and shows, but I’ve stuck with strawberry for music because the player interface is a bigger priority for me than having a remote is.

  • aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.brPortuguês
    2·
    3 days ago

    I think its almost perfect, just need a plugin to be able to show lyrics synchronised with the song

      • aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.brPortuguês
        2·
        3 days ago

        I’m old fashion, I put the synchronised subtitles on the mp3 files manually as a hobby, using Musicolet on Android, but I can see why is not a thing anymore

    • merci3@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      3 days ago

      the UI kinda looks like a QT based Rhythmbox. I’ll give it a try later 😀

      • Teppichbrand@feddit.org
        1·
        3 days ago

        I can’t decide between Fooyin and Rhythmbox. I’d love to stick with Rhythmbox, but I really miss waveform view.

  • Artopal@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 days ago

    Lightweight? I guess things have changed in the last 15+ years… I personally settled on Sayonara. Then I discovered Nuclear. Still undecided.

    • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Same for me. I was using foobar2000 back on windows. When I switched to linux I found out I set up my foobar basically the same as vanilla Clementine was set. So I was sold instantly. Later switched to Strawberry, because I felt Clementine is too long dead and it also started to glitch icons on newer qt for me. Strawberry is great.

    • merci3@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      Thanks for the tip 😁 Where did you get Tauon from? The AUR? There is an official flatpak release, which I presume would be more stable.

      • yopyop@feddit.nl
        1·
        3 days ago

        From AUR yes. I did not test the flatpak. It needs some time to know how to use it but it is rewarding.