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 threadpaskalivichiJul 10, 2024

If your system is using pipewire, any audio player will also use it.

Strawberry is the best youre gonna get. For KDE, Elisa is also an option ive used in the past. Prettier but simpler.

Show threadboredsquirrel (he)Jul 10, 2024

No it will use ALSA, Jack or often Pulseaudio. Pipewire can plug into these, but this causes overhead and to my knowledge doesnt allow things like external Equalization.

I may have to give Elisa another try. I think Strawberry (and Clementine) and Elisa suck. They are completely unintuitive, the UI has too many buttons and options for random stuff, and basic things you expect dont work.

Show threadKlaymore
I use Strawberry with JamesDSP for Linux (on Pipewire) and the equalizer works, not sure how other equalizer software does it though.
Jul 10, 2024 at 7:01pmWeb