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!

  • flubba86@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 days ago

    I like Strawberry, for two reasons:

    • It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.

    • It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.

  • chockblock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    I use Rhythmbox to edit/import/maintain my music collection and sync my iPods, and then I use Lollypop to play my music from my computer. Lollypop has next to no of the aforementioned features but its just nice to look at and simple.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    can anyone suggest a tool to re-assess all my ripped mp3s and flacs with artist/track title info? I ripped ages of music from CD, and at some point a lot of the data got dicked up.

    • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 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.

    • Dlolor@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 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.

  • 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.

  • 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·
        2 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

  • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Love Rhythmbox! I used it way way back when I first installed Ubuntu (back when it was good) and it was part of a special nostalgic feeling of having been ushered into this new linux world, and I think it lets you rate your songs 1-5 stars (if you want) and I had a lot of fun doing that.

    • 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·
        1 day 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·
          1 day 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.

  • shikitohno@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 days ago

    I use mpd and ncmpc++, myself. My library got too large (Just shy of 70,000 songs now) and all the GUI players choke and freeze when I try to scan my library, including Rhythmbox and QuodLibet. I’m kind of interested in how inori develops, since ncmpc++ isn’t getting any active development beyond fixing bugs when things break with updates, but I’m also pretty happy with it for now.

    • pirat@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      I just read that navidrome

      Handles large libraries!

      Plays well with gigantic music collections (tested with ~900K songs - 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3)

      Though, I don’t know if any of the supported Subsonic API clients can handle as much…

      • shikitohno@lemm.ee
        1·
        21 hours ago

        Gonic works pretty well with my library, and Tempo is fine for a client. I mostly just put stuff on an SD card in my Fiio these days, though.

    • 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·
        2 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.