I tried out most (if not all) of the music players on flathub, but I always end up going back to Rhythmbox. It’s so simple, lightweight, got just enough features (for my use case) and blends well with GTK Desktops (I mostly use Gnome and Cinnamon) and it looks so clean in my Nord theme 😆

How has your experience with Rhythmbox? do y’all got any alternative you think everybody should give a try? I personally think Elisa is a close second!

    • merci3@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 个月前

      I really enjoyed Elisa too! It looks modern and does a great job at showing off metadata 😁

      But I still sticked with Rhythmbox because of: 1- it’s GTK based, and I’m currently on Gnome (the reason why when using KDE, I stick with Elisa) 2- I kinda did not understand how managing playlist in Elisa works? Maybe I missed something, but Rhythmbox just seemed more simple and direct to the point with that.

      But yeah, I do agree with you that Rhythmbox really lacks in the “showing album covers off” space. But in my personal usage, I don’t tend to be looking at the UI of the music player on the desktop anyway, since I usually just play music on the background while doing other stuff.

      On mobile (android) on the other hand, I’m enjoying Gramophone for not only showing larger covers, but also matching it’s own Material You colors to the respective music you’re playing, it’s neat :p

  • njordomir@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 个月前

    I’ve been a Linux user since 2005ish and a DJ since at least 2013. I’ve tried a lot of music players including Rythmbox. I settled on Clementine/Strawberry or Amorok, depending on use case. Haven’t used either of them recently.

    With that said, there is no right answer. Find one you like!

  • flubba86@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 个月前

    I like Strawberry, for two reasons:

    • It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.

    • It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.

    • maracuya@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 个月前

      I am also a fan. Nicely shows album art, and has the “play similar” feature which I find to be very useful. I just pick one album I know I want to listen to, and it chooses the subsequent albums.

  • onTerryO@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    8 个月前

    I just looked up the initial release, it was in August 2001. I don’t remember the first time I used it, but it was probably 20 years ago. Still remains my favourite for the reasons you mentioned.

  • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    8 个月前

    Love Rhythmbox! I used it way way back when I first installed Ubuntu (back when it was good) and it was part of a special nostalgic feeling of having been ushered into this new linux world, and I think it lets you rate your songs 1-5 stars (if you want) and I had a lot of fun doing that.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 个月前

    I used it on Mint. I liked it. I use Strawberry now because it can bypass software decoding and output audio directly to my DAC.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 个月前

    I’ve been sticking with music players that can output directly through alsa. I settled on strawberry cause it can do that and also has other features that i care about baked in ootb. Deadbeef can also output directly through alsa and i liked it for the most part, but what i didn’t like was that things like mpris support wasn’t baked in, so i would have to mess with plugins. I don’t know if there are any other players that can output directly through alsa, those are the only two that i could find so far.