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Best plex music player for linux desktop? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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So i just saw the post here about harmonoid. Very good looking app, but it's only for a local music library.

I have mounted the iscsi disk that i also use for my plex library so i could just use harmonoid to play my plex music.

But that's not what i want. I want to be able to use the playlists i make on plex, use the files for which i made custom metadata etc.

I know the plexamp app is available on linux. But i see that it's basically just the android app ported to linux and the whole UI is absolute garbage for a desktop imho.

So does someone know a good open-source desktop music player that syncs with my plex library and playlists? I really like symfonium on my android phone for it's customizations but it's not available on linux...but something like that? Or something like harmonoid but with plex support?

Thanks !

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[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (12 children)

The reason i want a dedicated music app is for the fine-tuning.

Every good music app lets you control your audio quality very well. Equalizers, cross-fading, etc. But i don't want to do that via my system equalizer.

So the plex-desktop app and simply opening it in my browser are out of the question sadly...

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Hmm, not sure what else sorry. Perhaps look into setting audio controls per app and adjust them for the Plex app?

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (10 children)

nah that's only one part of the problem...my philosophy is that i want dedicated apps for every thing i want to do.

I don't want to use a browser to play my music, i want a browser to browse the internet and a music player to play my music. Because that way i can get the best results when i use a specialized app for every specific thing i want to do. You know, the fundamental linux philosophy^^

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

At this point web browsers are essentially operating systems themselves capable of running a wide variety of specialised apps.

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