Well, I have to say that Harmonoid is the best one I’ve found, it has a ton of cool features, it works and it allows you to be able to see your collection by album and it doesn’t use Electron. Right now its development has stalled a bit but it’s still pretty much in good shape, though.

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    Thanks OP, this type of posts is honestly the only thing I can say that I miss from Reddit, I hope people keep making posts like this here.

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      Is Amarok still a thing? I stopped using players a few years back in favour of Spotify, but I’m considering self hosting a collection again, and I remember Amarok being the best player by far.

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        TDE still supports it, but I’m pretty sure KDE no longer does. So you can still get it, but it will require a little extra work.

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          I’ll probably end up using a streaming server or something. I use too many disparate devices these days where I want things to work more like Spotify instead of your traditional Winamp style player.

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      It’s the only thing I’m actually missing after my switch to Linux.

      Music playback and organization, file conversion, replay gain and exporting to USB devices all in a single program with a highly customizable UI on top. So far I haven’t found anything that comes even close to replacing all that. Too bad it isn’t open source.

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    Looks gorgeous. Unfortunate that Subsonic is under “likely impossible” features, but I will try this on my home PC at least.

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      What do to you use right now to connect to a Subsonic server? I’ve used Strawberry and Sublime. Is there something else?

      Oh, wait, there’s also this mopidy backend that works fine but can’t remember if it’s Mopidy-Subsonic or Mopidy-Subidy.

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    I haven’t heard of harmonoid but will for sure be trying this out! It looks great

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    I’ve been using PlexAmp for a long time, but I’ve had a lifetime subscription to Plex for several years now. They have versions for Linux and a headless version you can run on a Raspberry Pi (this one still requires PlexPass).

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    Looks nice, a little bit basic though. I’m still using Foobar2000 for my local files, haven’t found anything better even though I’ve looked.

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      I like Audacious. It does everything I need it to do and doesn’t have an oversized webesque GUI.

      Harmoniod looks nice but I think the GUI would annoy me (pretty as it is). I might try it out though.

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    Sadly still no alternative that comes even close to MusicBee.

    I need one that does it all. Extremely large library, complete and complex searching, filtering, changing which columns are displayed/how, complete tags editing and display including less common ones, and the ability to add custom library tags (such as tags for grouping purposes, which I use extensively on top of Genre and Comment). Also need gapless play, ability to add fade in/out and control the length of that fade either when skipping or between all tracks, ability to edit the start/end of some tracks, etc. And good tools for auto-tagging, automatically fetching album art, easy re-organizing like MusicBee which allows you to auto-rename and move selected files along customizable rules, etc etc etc. MusicBee has tons of really good tools and 90% of them are basically required for how I organize and add to my library. And a clean and configurable UI where I can decide what I want to see and where it is, wavebar, visualizers, good controls and a nice auto-DJ, etc etc.

    Works really well with Wine now, but still there’s some annoying things like it not being detected as a media source, and not being recognized by the normal media buttons/widgets. Also recurring audio problems (need to refresh Pipewire or switch the sink) which have gotten better but still not quite there.

    God audio stuff on linux still has a long way to go.

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      I thought I was the only person who used MusicBee. Crazy to hear it not only brought up, but recommended here. I started using it years ago on a whim after a really basic “try these windows music players!” listicle

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      I’m in the same boat; longtime MusicBee user on Windows, and it’s one of the few things I haven’t found a “good enough” replacement for on Linux.