Which music player would you like to see in MX KDE?

[operadude]

In lieu of all my "blah, blah, blah"...a picture (or 2) is worth a thousand words Ignore the right-hand-side: just what I happen to be listening to right now...

This is what I like about Clementine, and which I haven't (yet) seen with other players:

Regarding Internet Radio search, using Icecast, see left-hand sidebar, where I have entered "70s" in the search bar at the top left. An empty search field says "search icecast". Handy!



And, now, the Podcast search, using gpodder.net:



Clicking "Add Podcast" will subscribe me to the podcast, and will be in the list of podcasts on the left-hand sidebar (my podcast list not shown in picture). I can search other locations, such as iTunes, and, of course, I could simply enter the URL, if I have it.

It's just that easy!

No need to change settings, first finding the URL, etc.

Maybe I'm just lazy, but I love it, and it works for my old-school needs

[operadude]

Post-Script:

Just saw the poll (at the top of the page for this thread).

Well...it's like what I've been telling my family for years:

" I am an Anomaly "



No, Not "The Anomaly" -- name that movie!

[markol]

I don't like music libraries, so Audacious for me :)

[ornithorhynchus]

Sayonara. It accommodates 2 libraries - one for me and one for my partner.

Cheers.

[LinuxSpring1]

KDE apps like Elisa and Amarok be part of list. They are good. But VLC yes is my first choice

[rambo919]

Audacious for most, Strawberry for CD's.

I would say Foobar2k but actually getting the devs to release to Linux is an uphill battle.

[asqwerth]

I've already voted for Strawberry, as I have extensive collections of music files and I really like their smart playlists [same as clementine's], esp the dynamic [random] playlist for playing my music, while it's also no issue to play by album or artist.

I already have qmplay2 for my internet radio searches and youtube downloader, so I don't miss the radio functions in strawberry, which were not carried over from clementine.

But I have another rather quirky reason for liking strawberry, which probably no one else will bother with.

I have conkies that display the music info and album covers of currently playing tracks, using a script that's been provided with MX conkies for a long time. Having tested quite a few MPRIS-compliant media players [in some of my other distros I have pragha, audacious, guayadeque, quodlibet installed, and every distro has VLC as well for videos], and while they all work with the said script to display music info in the conkies, none of them can work with the script to display the album art in the conkies.

The only 3 - out of those I've tested - that do are clementine, strawberry and qmplay2. I've tried web searches but haven't found any answers. To be honest, no one else has asked the question!

For these 3 players, album art will even be displayed for internet radio streams if the art is included in the stream. So even though strawberry and qmplay2 are already my favourites for music management, playlists, radio streams and youtube extraction, the conky abilities put them above the rest, for me.

[thomasl]

I would say Foobar2k but actually getting the devs to release to Linux is an uphill battle.

Hm... does that mean that Peter might be persuaded to do a Linux version? My impression has always been that he's just not interested in that though since I'm Linux-only I've not really followed FB2K.
FWIW a couple of people whom I've "converted" to MX and who were FB2K fans before are pretty happy w/ deadbeef.

[FreedoMX]

1) Not sure why this topic matters, since people can install whatever player they prefer. I guess you're asking about a single default player, so that people new to Linux who might not know anything about all the specialty Linux players would have something functional immediately after install....

2) Is a default music player supposed to be different from a separate default video player? (I did a very quick search here and didn't find any similar thread called: "What video player would you like to see in MX KDE?"

3) I personally think it's just silly to use a player that can ONLY play one thing, like audio, and then requires others to play other things. I use many types, constantly, and even simultaneously (podcast on one, background music on another, skimming through some muted webinar video on third, doing file conversions on a fourth. Thus, I want ONE player that can play ANYTHING I throw at it: audio, video, streams, pics, whatever. As well as do conversions between them too. Thus, is there anything that beats VLC? That's always my default. And I can have 10 of them open at once. Multi-tool. The rest of these apps are just little single forks and spoons.

Plus, people coming over from Windoze (and maybe crApple too) may already have experience with VLC, and lower their learning curve since that will already be familiar.

4) Why not just offer the user a choice of any/all at the install? Ever check out how Garuda does an install? It's awesome because they break down apps into a number of categories and then allow the user to pick which individual ones will get installed. I LEARNED about a ton of apps that I didn't know existed because of that process a few years ago. (I haven't checked it recently though, after moving over to MX)

Later I was pleased to see similar optionality structure now in the MX Package Installer. So why not just make that similar capability (selecting from a group of apps, per category) available immediately (at installation)? Unless I'm just not comprehending something here...?

[rambo919]

I would say Foobar2k but actually getting the devs to release to Linux is an uphill battle.

Hm... does that mean that Peter might be persuaded to do a Linux version? My impression has always been that he's just not interested in that though since I'm Linux-only I've not really followed FB2K.
FWIW a couple of people whom I've "converted" to MX and who were FB2K fans before are pretty happy w/ deadbeef.

I remember someone expressing passing interest in making a linux version once or twice but nothing ever coming of it. Just no incentive I guess, just really annoying that they don't just open source the thing already because then someone would have done it already most likely.

deadbeef is absolutely no F2k replacement... nothing is but Audacious comes close enough for me.... as if I have any choice hahaha Now if only someone makes an undo function for the playlist....

The funny thing is F2k works fine in wine BUT keyboard media keys only works if it's in focus