not_IOThe state of Linux music players in 2026
snoonsI’ve been using Audacious for years now; it’s lightweight and also has no library management but I find I don’t really need that. I just point it to any one album on my drive and it plays it.
I have each album saved as a separate ‘playlist’ which works well for me. I can see people being annoyed with how I have it set up, but I like it this way.
Skullgridit’s lightweight and also has no library management
That’s the point for me for Audacious. I don’t want to dig through my entire 30+ GB music folder, create a massive index or whatever, load all that shit to memory every time I open the fucking program, just to play one album.
“Oh I want this album”> Drag it in
“Oh I want this discography” > drag it in
The only problem is no multi column tab view, and no drag into empty space/designated zone to create a new playlist.