i dont believe in streaming of any kinda, my data is local
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I don't know why but this made me want to play that Windows pinball game like the old times
That space pinball game thing? It's available on Linux, I saw it in the AUR a few months ago.
god bless the AUR
Its also on Flathub. ~~I think it is a WINE wrapper~~
It was reimplemented a couple of years ago - don't have a link to hand but it's on GitHub - so it's likely to be native.
Jellyfin, i own my streaming
I use Strawberry personally.
If there's any other Cantata enjoyers reading this thread while feeling sad that it's not maintained anymore, Strawberry is the closest alternative.
I'd been using Cantata for many years but recently switched to Strawberry. It's pretty good, the dynamic playlist feature is the closest I have found to cantata's though it still behaves a bit differently in details which is a bit annoying :/
I too have noticed a number of minor behavioral differences that I've found annoying, but it is what it is. This was the closest I could find to an active fork of Cantata, but nothing has been released at this time, though the dev has expressed interest in a Qt6 port.
The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?
You can set certain filters and it will automatically fill the playlist with tracks matching those filters. For example I have a smart playlist set to contain all tracks that I rated 3 stars or higher.
There are some canned choices like "50 newest tracks".
As any person that lives under a rock I barely blinked and everyone was using streaming services while I kept half of my hard drive full of pirated mp3 and never got to understand why people fell for that trap. I really like MPD, though when it goes yolo it's a pain in the butt to re-configure it.
I used ncmpcpp for like 10 years (or even more, but I can't recall) but only a couple years ago re-discovered ncmpc and liked its minimalism (compared to ncmpcpp, that is). Even wrote a couple stupid patches to change the default progress bar.
But a few weeks ago learned about mmtc. Which is written in rust.
I didn't have rust installed and the 12 GB of RAM weren't enough to compile rust in my Gentoo box so I used this as an excuse to buy more RAM. And then compiled rust and it took a bit more of an hour so I could use this shiny "new" MPD player. Only to discover its so minimal it doesn't have an database update function - the author literally says you have to set a key combination to call mpc to do so.
My family fell for it, and it is really hard to convince them otherwise.
I found QMMP few years ago. As a fan of Winamp, I haven't looked back yet. QMMP is compatible with Winamp skins too.
Wow I forgot I once made a DragonBall Z skin for winamp. It's still there :D Blast from the past!!
Audacious with winamp skins.
I was actually looking to use Winamp. Does this skin makes it look exactly like Winamp? How do I get it?
Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.
Jellyfin has mobile and desktop clients.
For me for a long time it was a coin toss between Plex and Jellyfin.
For some long forgotten reason I ended with Emby and eventually migrated to Jellyfin as its true free open source fork.
With jellyfin DLNA server i can play same music on Apple TV, etc. although DLNA clients are certainly not as nice as native apps. One can offset problem with playlists.
Both have quick start wiki pages like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Jellyfin
Official documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/
I'm using Clementine for now it has nice management features, it's overall pretty great. Only downside is that some minor gestures are broken and the UI is not really pretty '
I would personally recommend Strawberry if anything since development of Clementine has been dead for a long while now, whilst it’s also of fork of Clementine too with frequent updates.
Oohhh i'll surely check this out ! Thanks ! (I prefer strawberrys to Clementines anyway)
I'm a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly...)
Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it's nobody's business
I'm a big fan of MPD since it runs in the background and can be remote controlled from other devices in the house. Also supports every format under the sun up to and including chiptunes. May or may not be useful to you though.
MPD. Is the way. Queue is playlist. Save queue as playlist. Playlist in folder. Load playlist to queue. Load playlist to queue. Playlists con...conc...concatentatetded. Concatenated.
I much like Quod Libet. It has a clean, functional interface to manage your local music collection. Also support for Plugins is nice.
You can create Boolean Logic filters like (played < 10 times AND genre = classical AND composer = Mozart) which I appreciate. And some of the included tools like being able to automatically create meta data tags from file names (for instance - - .mp3).
It's the best replacement for Music Bee (Windows only) that I've come across.
i selfhost navidrome and use feishin on linux desktop, and symfonium on mobile.
Currently running Navidrome on my server and using substreamer on mobile, with the webui on desktop.
i like cmus.
Lollypop, it's a bit dated in terms of design for a GNOME app but it has all the features you could want. Can't comment on playlists though, I have never used playlists and honestly don't get the point of them.
I was like you, did not get the point of playlists until I got into techno and some other genres that most people would consider "trashy". Plus there are some collections of Movies/Games that fit nice into a playlist. Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I will check it now :) .
No one commenting on your playlist? You're cathartic music experience is showing :)
If you use a DAC, I can recommend Strawberry for the USB to DAC support.
I'm a big fan of Plexamp.
Just use VLC
installed foobar2000 with wine. nothing can ever beat it. and i has to have dolby headphone.
I have always loved FB2K, but I didn't like using it in linux. It was slow to start (which is snap's fault) and was tough to get working in a stable state once I started trying to use components that I prefer (probably wine's fault, but who knows).
Probably a bit late, but I really like Quod Libet. It is very extensible, runs light, has excellent tagging and filtering, and just feels similar enough to how I set up my foobar2000.
i use moc because the command line aesthetic
For some reason I use YouTube music most of the time.
Vlc would be my choice for local. And maybe a jellyfin for my server.