Sayonara

G4Music

Strawberry+1

if I'm using gui on my laptop, then amberol

if I'm using my headless server, then you can't get anything better than mpd

Rhythmbox

Tori. Play music in your terminal. Built in rust and has great performance, and low trace on memory impact.

used to be a rhythmbox guy but I've been using audacious for a few years now

I've always just used audacious. It's been good. That said, I recently installed plex amp and the more I used it, the more I like it!

Ncmcpp, MPV with scripts

I use Lollypop, I think it is pretty neat and pretty, it also recommends me an album of the day

Rhythmbox and Strawberry are the best, IMO. Rhythmbox has a lower impact on system resources but Strawberry is ideal for people with extensive music collections that you store offline like I do.

I like G4Music, beautiful and straightforward

Tidal app from AUR and MPD.

Mpd and Cantata. Deadbeef for playing from a directory or for conversation. I haven't found anything as good as cantata but I have to admit that I miss the monolithic and do everything of musicbee.

mpdevil! It's got a nice GTK4/Adwaita UI, integrates with mpd, and gets out of your way.

https://github.com/SoongNoonien/mpdevil

Lollypop and Deadbeef

Logitech Media Server, followed by strawberry, quod libet, rhythmbox

Quod libet starts to act funny with 50,000 flac collections. Rhythmbox too. LMS is still chugging at 100k and I can get it on any room in the house, across 2 clients on computers, 2 on raspberry pi and my android phone. If I want to listen to 24/96+, Strawberry can handle it all although I haven't warmed up to the interface. Volumio sucks, it's way too slow.

I wish MediMonkey was on Linux...

I use Sonixd as the frontend to my Navidrome server, and it's the bees knees.

I settled with Navidrome. It solves 2 use cases for me. Due to being web based it can be used by any PC or mobile device with access to my server. Additionally it supports subsonic which allows me to use a native android app (ultrasonic) and have music on the go. I don't use services like Spotify.

Don't have one I love. Will have to review these comments!

Currently I use the Jellyfin web UI. Usage-wise it's decent, but I don't love using a browser for music.

Previously I was using mopidy + mopidy-Jellyfin + ncmpdcpp but it broke and I never got around to figuring out why. I didn't particularly enjoy ncmpdcpp. Great piece of software, don't get me wrong, just didn't like the TUI music client experience as thought I would.

Checking out GUI based mpd client ecosystem seems like the next logical step.

Mpd has always served me well. I use ncccmmmmppp (however its spelled) to manage playlists and such. For album artwork I run sxiv pointed at file in /tmp/. I forget how that part works, actually. I have a grid layout on a second monitor, so I just square up the mpd client and sxiv. Doesn't look too bad.

Semi-related, but as a project I ripped out the pressure/impact pads of an old midi keyboard for use as prev/(pause/unpause)/next buttons, so if the song sucks I can literally punch my desk to skip it.