Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I’d ask here for suggestions first. Features I’m looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:

  1. Music folder can be anywhere, not only ~/Music
  2. In the list of songs by a given artist, I can sort by album year, but the tracks within each album stay in the correct order
  3. The player remembers where I left off the next time I open it

I’m using Rhythmbox and it’s great but unfortunately it doesn’t do #3 (if I missed some setting let me know please).

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Best options from the comments were Strawberry and Quod Libet. I think I’ll go with Quod Libet. Thanks all for the suggestions.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    I’m currently using Strawberry. Before that Deadbeef (was perfectly happy with Deadbeaf, just tried something different). MPD with Cantata was on the cards but not got to it yet.

  • Xylight@feddit.onlineEnglish
    4·
    21 days ago

    I use Gapless. it’s pretty simple, but i mostly use it because it doesn’t look like absolute buns. i think it has what you want.

    • reboot6675@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      21 days ago

      I’ve seen Strawberry mentioned a lot but I’m definitely not a fan of its looks haha. Gapless on the other hand looks pretty sleek. It’s a bit less intuitive perhaps but I might give it a shot

  • vfreire85@lemmy.ml
    1·
    22 days ago

    it’s not open source (it’s free though) and runs on linux through wine, but i like aimp.

    • banazir@lemmy.ml
      7·
      23 days ago

      Out of all the music players I’ve tried on Linux, Clementine variants like Strawberry are the best ones for my needs. I’m not entirely sure of #2, but otherwise yeah, it does all that and more.

      Audacious is also a decent low resource player.

        • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          23 days ago

          Definitely agree - I usually use cmus because it follows my system theme as part of the terminal and kind of fits in anywhere, but for graphical players having options for skins is a must for me.

      • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        I’m pretty sure if your metadata is correct you can enable the album year collumn and when applying a new sorting, it doesn’t touch the previous one.

        So for example if you sort alphabetically first, then album year, it would be “grouped” by album year and inside each group it would be alphabetical. I say group because it could be that two albums released in the same year.

  • claudiom@blendit.bsd.cafe
    2·
    20 days ago

    Another one for Audacious, especially with the Winamp themes. :-)

    I also use mpv a lot when I need something from the terminal inside Tmux.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    1·
    22 days ago

    Someone mentioned Immich recently and it sounded like the cool kids are using it now, so maybe it’s worth looking into. I’m just a cavedweller and use command line mplayer, but given all the song metadata, the features you mention are pretty easy to do. Is every song necessarily on an album though?

  • dragnucs@lemmy.ml
    1·
    23 days ago

    Rytgmbox does not do your feature number 3, my personal workaround is to, before closing the app, add the current song to the play queue, so it will be picked up next time you start the application.