Sounds like deadbeef

• https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
• https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

I remember using foobar2000 on windows and then trying out deadbeef on linux. The problem is it falls into a demand gap on linux. People drawn to foobar2000 tend to be power users but on linux there is way more options available for power users.

Like how the author enjoys the directory based music browser for the exact same reasons I did. My music wasnt tagged correctly but it was manually sorted correctly by me. On linux the solution is to use beets to automatically sort and correctly tag all of your music.

Then there’s the issue of the player. On linux the titan is MPD, a music player server. MPD has no UI but and client can have any UI it wants. Then you get stuff like, mpc, ncmpc, ncmpcpp, cantata, etc. Once you learn about all the possibilities of MPD, you dont want to use a foobar2000 clone unless its a MPD client.

Also writing plugins in a custom language (fooscript) is usually a bad idea. Just use Lua. Its literally what lua is built to do.

Very cool! Still early, so ran into some bugs:

• Buggy playback on some files. Would either not play or play back glitched. Using Pipewire plugin.
• Inconsistent vert/hori split behavior. Not sure I completely understand what I was doing wrong, but when editing the layout sometimes a split would open to the right of the widget area I was trying to split.

Anyway, I like that Foobar can group albums next to their cover art in a playlist. Made visually scrolling through a large playlist much more interesting IMO, and fooyin does it well! Now to see if I can tweak the size of them.

I’m looking forward to it. A good directory browser is important, however I’m surprised to learn that most other players don’t have it

The best music player on Linux is still foobar2000 in WINE, so I will definitely be trying this out.

Here I am chilling with Amberol

This looks promising. I always yearned for Foobar2000 to be on Linux natively.

However layout editor part is quite confusing (adding widgets seem to add them not where I want them at), and I couldn’t get it to play any music, as both drag and drop to a playlist and open file option in the menu causes the program to crash. Plugins didn’t load at all until I manually copied them to the places fooyin was looking for, though I wonder if this is an AUR package issue or not.

I’ll keep using DeaDBeeF despite some complaints I have with it for the time being, and will keep a close eye on this one.

I love VLC

Lollypop is better.

Tbh I use mplayer from the command line and that’s always worked great for me.