I use Exaile. It has queue(s) that you add tracks to, and the library search is outstanding. I have some albums with various artists, and Exaile can group the library by the album artist.

I used to have the files on my NAS, and "syncing" them via smb. Then I reinstalled my NAS, and for some reason decided to not install smb. I was tinkering with the idea of doing a small http server/client thing instead. But to be frank, my library never changes any longer. I just copy it from the NAS once, and that's it.

I used a player called Listen back in the days. I loved that one so much.

I use Spotify for most of my music, but seeing how we're on the Linux sub, I use "Strawberry" to play music on my steamdeck in game mode. It works well enough to play music on my desk while I do HW or something.

(I am also looking for a way to have videos in SD game mode if you have any ;) )

i like audacious, super simple, just a list of my music, playlists, ez.

I once asked this question time ago on a different account and found some useful recommendations. Here you go.

At that time I decided to run mpd + ymuse combo and now mpd + ncmpcpp because I can use it with the keyboard. Personally all I really care is playlist management.

Cheers!

I wrote my own music player using qt

URLs like these:

http://edge1-b.exa.live365.net/a90706 and this https://cafedelmar.com/radio/

VLC on Win XP on a Thinkpad R52, connected via shielded cable to the aux input on a Sony receiver from about 1995.

Hey, why not?

I used to do beets and cmus but eventually moved to MusicBrainz Picard and Strawberrry Music Player. I sync to my phone with syncthing.

I'm a big fan of keeping it simple:

• audio files get organised by artist and then album
• VLC for playing them
• SMB for sharing them across devices

I'm running Mopidy with web interface to stream to multiple audio output devices (like my receiver in the living room) using Snapcast on Pi's (some with HiFiBerry module) over the network. Mopidy also integrates nicely into my workstation with KDE using MPDRIS and a local Snapcast server.

This works for both my music collection and some webstreams. I'm quite happry with this setup.

I can't hype up Tauon Musicbox enough.

Rockbox has worked really well

I'd rather go deaf then deal with software while making music.

just make it with your hands.