I tried quite a few. ncmpcpp was cool, but I settled on using plexamp since I can use it on phone and desktop. I've been super happy with it, and they made it free a while back. So now my friends use it too and we can share our Plex music libraries.
I've tried a few and settled on Audacious.
It's pretty basic overall but it allows you to use original Winamp skins which I love!
I've been using Dopamine for years. Nothing ever got even close to it.
Personally, I use cmus, though I've been looking around for alternatives also, just to see if there's something better for me. My main issue with cmus is having to build playlists within it, instead of using m3u files. This means I have to back up both my regular playlists I use on my phone, and my cmus playlists. But I haven't really found anything as easy to use and intuitive as cmus so far. I used to like deadbeef but I dropped it because it wasn't available everywhere and I wasn't the biggest fan of its interface.
Biggest gripe with cmus are are the hotkeys, its totally unintuitive and frustrating if you don't use it daily and everywhere. Additional small gripe: no album covers, but thats with most terminal players.
You can change them. It's what I did.
Sane defaults, thank you.
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.
YouTube music in Firefox in a special workspace
I'd love a CLI on it but there don't seem to be any good enough to beat the UX
Can be themed with Stylus
Nothing seems to sway me from audacious. Does what it needs to do.
I just open my music in mpv lol. Used to use MOC, but I couldn't get it to work with multimedia keys, so I ditched it
I started using fooyin recently, and it's good enough to have replaced running foobar2000 in WINE for me.
oh, Its in the AUR... nice!!
What is the appeal, I understand fb2k was the shit back in the days. But nowadays I want a music player with elegant defaults instead of customization?
Different strokes. If I preferred using software that was just good enough out of the box over something I can customize to my exact liking then I probably wouldn't be using Linux in the first place, or at least not the way I do in general.
Beyond that, having it be customizable means other people can change it to their liking and share that configuration, and maybe I'd experiment with it and find something I didn't even know I wanted.
That sounds like an excuse to waste lifetime. A good UI should be what makes or breaks an audio player. If I have to enter text queries to play songs this might work after I configured a script which handles all the shit I want to do OR the UI is in itself easy to use so I don't need to go to that length.
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