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!

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    I used it on Mint. I liked it. I use Strawberry now because it can bypass software decoding and output audio directly to my DAC.

  • Chemo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I really really don’t get why you just can’t organize your music in plain old folders with rhythmbox. Not Playlists, not Meta data. Just folders. Ist it that exotic? Is it that hard to implement?

    • merci3@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      My musics are organized by metadata, playlists AND folders. I currently got about 1980+ songs locally, and felt like I needed all of these methods to keep them organized and good looking

      • Chemo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        And is there any way to play songs by folder with rhythmbox yet? Haven’t looked into it for a while.

  • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    It literally hasn’t changed even a tiny bit since I first saw it in 2006 :)

    I currently use Strawberry - a well maintained fork of the old Amarok player before they redone the UI for KDE 4. It does what I care the most:

    • Tree view collection with artist -> album grouping
    • Files view
    • Lyrics
    • Tag editor
    • Queue
    • Last, but definitely not least - gapless playback
    • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Fork of Clementine you mean.

      I am still using Clementine. Strawberry is missing some features.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    6 days ago

    I really just want a media player that:

    1. Has good media library support based on tags (lots do)

    2. Has ReplayGain support (lots do)

    3. Lets me have an album art panel bigger than a thumbnail (and here is where so many options fall short, including Rhythmbox)

    Deadbeef seems to be the closest due to its good customizability, but the plugin which allows for actual media library capability is apparently Mac-only, for some unfathomable reason.

    Gonna be stuck with Foobar via Wine for a fair sight longer, I think.

    • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Clementine does all those things. I may have mistaken what you are asking for. Are you wanting a cover larger than a thumbnail in the “catalog” section?

        • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Got it. My initial thought was you wanted to see the cover when it was playing. This makes more sense now. I don’t use covers in the catalog part because my library is way too big. I would never be able to scroll through them all!

  • njordomir@lemmy.world
    15·
    8 days ago

    I’ve been a Linux user since 2005ish and a DJ since at least 2013. I’ve tried a lot of music players including Rythmbox. I settled on Clementine/Strawberry or Amorok, depending on use case. Haven’t used either of them recently.

    With that said, there is no right answer. Find one you like!

  • geoff@lemm.ee
    12·
    8 days ago

    Absolutely classic music player. The iTunes 1.0 UI pattern, which was pre-enshittification. To my eyes, I still don’t think I’ve ever seen a more overall efficient and descriptive way of browsing a local music library.

  • flubba86@lemmy.world
    9·
    8 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.

  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Rhythmbox has been my main music app for over 15 years now. Every now and then I’ll check out other options but I always end up back after a couple days.

    I do wish they would give the UI some attention. Nothing major, just a few visual tweaks to bring it inline with modern Gnome (the alternative toolbar plugin is really close)

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
      1·
      7 days ago

      Same, I just really want the automatic playlists feature, but no other music players that look nice on gnome seem to have that. Pretty much all newish players are so minimal