boredsquirrel (he)Jul 10, 2024

Searching for the best Music Player

https://slrpnk.net/post/11300032

Searching for the best Music Player - SLRPNK

WAIT! before you start commenting that TUI musicplayer xy is the best, my priorities: must have: - support for m3u playlists (synced to Android with Syncthingy) - support for viewing all files - support for custom music directories - support for deleting music files - Flatpak OR clutterfree on KDE would like: - Pipewire output - nice simple GUI - modern, clutterfree design OR customizability - subtitles, cover images, etc. I used G4Music but it has literally no features. I cant even delete files. I am now trying Strawberry, a fork of Clementine which roughly comes from the old Amarok music player. It looks really dated and seems overcomplex for me, also I dont think it has Pipewire support.

Show threadrudyharrelson
I dunno if VLC can do “Pipewire output”, but I think it does a lot of the other stuff you mentioned. I use it on my desktop (Mint) and my phone (Android) and it suits my needs at least.
Jul 10, 2024 at 6:16pmWeb
Show threadboredsquirrel (he)Jul 10, 2024

Hm, VLC is an unofficial (but very well done) Flatpak, no Wayland support and a bit bloated and not well suited for playing music afaik. But I may have to give it another try.

The new 4.0 version of VLC looks very cool, but it is only available from an Ubuntu PPA which I used with a Ubuntu Distrobox, but no way that sucks too.

Should do some Github action to extract the binary from that PPA and pack it into a Flatpak.