dlf Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Any music players that: A: Would be stored on my computer (not a website I visit) B: Plays lossless & lossy (most of the music is MP3) C: DOESN'T need to have it's "library" cleaned every time I (re)boot into Linux Mint (17.2) D: Does allow shuffle, repeat, playlist, general functionality that something like foobar (from Windows) would Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 https://amarok.kde.org/ simonlang 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Berry Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 I'd recommend JRiver Media Center, but it's not free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDT Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Try Lollypop, it's the best that I found so far, AND my notebook media keys work fine with it. If you're an emulation fan, MusicBee works perfectly via Crossover/Wine/PlayOnLinux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Berry Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 If you're an emulation fan, MusicBee works perfectly via Crossover/Wine/PlayOnLinux. So does foobar2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDT Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 So does foobar2000. More choices for him then I named MusicBee because, in my opinion, it's THE best Windows player these days, but if he wants something lighter, foobar can be the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlf Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 If I went the 'wine' route, how would I get it to read mp3's on a different partition of the same physical hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I've not played with Linux as much as some of Neowin's members but I personally loved Amarok, it's the only media player apart from WMP I've used that I would consider using as a daily driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 MPD is the ultimate. Grab a few of the different clients and try it out. It's superior to anything else I've used. My preference is ncmpcpp because I love ncurses/terminal apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f5s4t3 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Kodi. It's worth the little bit getting use to that you have to go through with it. Plays everything, has playlists, repeat, shuffle etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted July 16, 2015 Veteran Share Posted July 16, 2015 I just use VLC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinaryData Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I just use VLC VLC & Foobar. If only Dopamine was supported on Linux! D: Haggis 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted July 16, 2015 Veteran Share Posted July 16, 2015 If only Dopamine was supported on Linux! D: This ^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinaryData Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 This ^^^^ Maybe that'll be the project, converting Dopamine to C++ and rockin' it in Linux! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDT Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 If I went the 'wine' route, how would I get it to read mp3's on a different partition of the same physical hard drive? As long as the partitions are mounted, you can read mp3s from anywhere. But I would suggest going via Wine only if you're THAT crazy about a Windows media player, like MusicBee. If not, there's really no advantage, just use a native Linux player. Kodi. It's worth the little bit getting use to that you have to go through with it. Plays everything, has playlists, repeat, shuffle etc. Kodi is way more than just a music player, I wouldn't use it only for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe84 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I use Audacious, although I'm not 100% sure about point D) as I don't use those functionalities. But it's extremely lightweight, great quality, so far it has played every format I tried (mp3, m4a, FLAC), I just had to change the output to ALSA instead of PulseAudio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f5s4t3 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Kodi is way more than just a music player, I wouldn't use it only for that. It's true. I suggested the OP starts from here. I tried VLC, SMPlayer. Kodi is my final choice for all that: music, radios, videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 i would say either rhythmbox or amarok depending on the distro you use. if you fancy fancy skins try to go with Aimp3 running in wine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlf Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 I've got foobar running in POL, how would I get the media keys to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDT Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I've got foobar running in POL, how would I get the media keys to work? Check this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 if you want a good music playet for linux check out these players Choosing a Linux Music Player - http://thesimplecomputer.info/choosing-a-linux-music-player (must read) Clementine - https://www.clementine-player.org/ tomahawk - hthttp://www.exaile.org/tp://www.tomahawk-player.org/ Exaile - http://www.exaile.org/ lollypop - http://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop/ Quod Libet - https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Audacious - http://audacious-media-player.org/ Amarok - https://amarok.kde.org/ simonlang 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I mostly use Google Music but since that doesn't meet your requirements, another app I kinda like and which I haven't seen mentioned is Musique. It can use both phonon and gstreamer as backend, so it should be able to play almost anything you throw at it. It's a local app using your local library. Not sure about library cleaning, I've never had that happen. Basic stuff like shuffle, repeat, playlist (notice the singular) and scrobbling, if you are into that. Feature wise is rather basic, but it does it's job and while not incredibly original it looks a bit different than most players (focus on album/artist art rather than text lists when browsing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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