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[–] kabe@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"The state of Linux music players" but no mention of Audacious or Deadbeef? For shame.

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had to dig to find Deadbeef, it is not mentioned in a lot of articles or music player round ups, I'm quite happy with it personally, although my needs are small, I have a big local library but it's already mostly organized and tagged, so I just needed something to play from directories which was quite hard to find actually, everything uses playlists which I don't want.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yeah, same. It's the closest thing I've found to foobar2000 on Linux, in many ways.

Edit: TIL Fooyin exists. -> Flathub

Thanks, @greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

[–] greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't see anyone mentioning Fooyin, which seems to be an attempt at being an open source clone of Foobar2000, right down to its plug in system.

Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren't using it? Do they just not know about it? Its missing a few features here and there, but the UI is so 1 to 1 that I can't imagine trying to use anything else as a replacement.

[–] kabe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren’t using it? Do they just not know about it?

The latter, I assume, as I confess I had never heard of it before you mentioned it. Now that I've checked it out, it looks very promising! Thanks for the heads-up.

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

It does remind me a lot of foobar, the interface builder could use a little work certainly it's a little tricky, but it works! I accidentally deleted the whole layout at first and had to rebuild it because I deleted the master container haha. It was a learning experience anyways, and now it's working great and looking how I want :)

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've used VLC in WIndows forever, but it started giving me glitchy behavior in Ubuntu. Tried to upgrade to see if it was an old version/Snap thing, got frustrated with it not working. So I went through all the lists of Linux players, tried most of them. I like Audacious. It's not perfect, but it works well, and I can deal with some of the minor things that are more preferences than problems. That's all I wanted.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Deadbeef comes the closest to what I want in a music player. If I could get rid of the playlist display at the bottom and edit tags, it would be perfect.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

and edit tags

Well, that sucks :( i was going to try it but i seem to be forever fixing tags, ao that's a must have feature