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====== Music Player ====== | ====== Music Player ====== | ||
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+ | Software for playing audio files. I'm particularly interested in ones that feature robust tools for managing a collection of music, so ones with good tools for searching, tagging, sorting. | ||
===== Notes ===== | ===== Notes ===== | ||
- | I've been wanting a [[Linux]] alternative to [[foobar_2000]] (F2K) ever since I switched over. I've never found something good enough, but I check-in with things every now-and-then. | + | I've been wanting a [[linux]] alternative to [[foobar_2000]] (F2K) ever since I switched over. I've never found something good enough, but I check-in with things every now-and-then. |
==== Features ==== | ==== Features ==== | ||
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Mostly features Foobar has that I really want in a replacement: | Mostly features Foobar has that I really want in a replacement: | ||
- | * Layout: Flexibility is nice. I probably spend as much time organising my music as a do playing it (...), so being able to customise the layout is nice. In F2K my main layout has playlists down the left, then the other column is split with columns for artist, | + | |
- | * The auto playlists are really handy. They' | + | |
+ | * The auto playlists are really handy. They' | ||
* Automatically applying tags based on the file name. | * Automatically applying tags based on the file name. | ||
* Renaming files and directories based on tags. | * Renaming files and directories based on tags. | ||
- | * I like the main list of arts to be based on the 'album artist' | + | * I like the main list of artists |
- | * Easy to change tags from whereever | + | * Easy to change tags from wherever |
- | * Playlists shouldn' | + | * [[Playlists]] shouldn' |
And some things Foobar doesn' | And some things Foobar doesn' | ||
* One thing that bugs me about Foobar in Wine is the font support. I've never been able to get it display characters from all the languages I need. This should work fine in any Linux player without hassle. | * One thing that bugs me about Foobar in Wine is the font support. I've never been able to get it display characters from all the languages I need. This should work fine in any Linux player without hassle. | ||
- | * Playlist portability. F2K uses it's own format. It can export to common ones, but I'd love to be able to use the playlists other places without having to export them. | + | * [[playlists|Playlist]] portability. F2K uses it's own format. It can export to common ones, but I'd love to be able to use the playlists other places without having to export them. |
* I'm used to the weird(?) F2K handles tags with multiple values ('';'' | * I'm used to the weird(?) F2K handles tags with multiple values ('';'' | ||
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+ | ==== Software ==== | ||
+ | Notes on ones I've tried. FIXME | ||
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+ | * **DeadBeeF** | ||
+ | * **Exaile** | ||
+ | * **Foobnix** | ||
+ | * **gmusicbrowser** | ||
+ | * **Guayadeque** | [[https:// | ||
+ | * **[[Quod Libet]]**\\ I think I've settled one this, one even though it isn't perfect. | ||
+ | * ... | ||
+ | * **[[Strawberry]]** | [[https:// | ||
===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
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* [[wp> | * [[wp> | ||
- | {{tag> | + | {{tag>music software recommendations}} |
music_player.txt · Last modified: 2022/03/06 17:00 by rjt