Lightweight music player?

[Stevo]

There's also a fork of Clementine called Strawberry with the library features, though I don't know if it's lighter. We have it in the main MX repos.

[imschmeg]

If you don't mind using a CLI instead of a GUI, cmus is extremely lightweight.

[wdscharff]

cmus is only very lightweight if you use xterm instead of the xfce terminal.
With xterm around 40mb with xfce terminal around 80mb
Pragha on the other hand is a full featured Gui music player, easy to use and requires only 105-110mb of ram at startup. This is on par with VLC (which can also play video, but I don't think it has a library).
Pragha is a bit "outdated" in MXPI, but since it works, I wouldn't worry about it.
For comparison, because I prefer it to VLC, QMPlay2 is around 200mb.

All values for required RAM taken from the task manager, ahs_64bit. on a 32bit system the ressurcen requirement should be lower)

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[radonrose]

I was never a library type of guy, so I always went with Audacious until I discovered DeaDBeeF.

There's also a fork of Clementine called Strawberry with the library features, though I don't know if it's lighter. We have it in the main MX repos.

Never really measured CPU and RAM usage for music players, but I was impressed by how fast DeaDBeeF loaded up, compared to anything else that offered tabbed playlists or similar. Also, Strawberry used to load up way faster than Clementine on my previous system (Pentium Dual Core mobile with Fedora KDE and later LXDE), but that was before 2017.

FWIW I use DeadBeef (music) and Celluloid (Youtube Video Music).

May i suggest mpv with the --no-video flag?

[RallyDarkstrike]

Pragha?

It's pretty light, has music library function, and I find the default sound (on my humble speakers ) good. I've used it in various of my distros for at least 5 years. Not to say I don't use Clementine as well; the latter is just old reliable and I've never had issues with it.

Huh, never heard of Pragha! I'll have to look into it!

I don't have any issues with Clementine, I really like it in fact and use it on my HTPC and my 'daily driver' laptop with 12GB of RAM....just wondering if I should replace it on this, my 'tinkering laptop, as when I'm browsing the net and have several tabs open (I can't have many on 2GB of non-replaceable RAM), Clementine is eating up a fair chunk of that if I am listening to it while doing my thing (seems like it uses about 100-130MB of RAM while playing my MP3s)

[JayM]

Open MX Package Installer, click the Stable Repo tab, type lightweight music player in the Search field. For more information about each one, right-click on each result then click More Info. For even more information about each one, search the web to get screenshots etc.

[Huckleberry Finn]

@RallyDarkstrike Slimjet from MXPI Popular Apps tab (as the browser). I promise you, you'll see the difference. And.. shortly: If you don't have such a sound skipping issue (just have a try): DeadBeef .

Edit: Oh, sorry, I forgot you mentioned you wanted "Media Library function" on post #8 ..

[dolphin_oracle]

mpd dameon and something like cantata for a front end might suffice. but honestly, none of the players are particularly heavy.

[JayM]

You might be better off conserving RAM by using Fluxbox instead of a full desktop environment like Xfce and configuring unneeded services to not start at boot. viewtopic.php?p=560215#p560215

[pianokeyjoe]

Would Alsaplayer be an acceptable light weight media player in this case use?