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Nightingale?
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I like Songbird. It's got smart playlists, plugin support, and a lot of nice goodies.
The kicker? They've dropped official support for Linux. However, they still build one. There's a branch, Nightingale, which looks promising, but needs a lot more dev-love.
Yeah, the lack of a common 'rating' tag absolutely mystifies me. Everybody feels like they have to roll their own, and keep it in their own database.
Nightingale might be something for you - it's not only well developed, it's open source, and has excellent support for plugins and mods. And it supports FLAC. I believe they also added an option to store the rating with the song, but I'm not sure if that works with all the encoding formats.
As a currently inactive, but supportive dev and admin of the Nightingale Media Player, I can say that if they pull this crap with us we will quickly move to bitbucket - we may anyway, out of spite for our opensource brethren.
It's probably worth checking out Nightingale, which is a community fork of the discontinued Songbird player. It uses Mozilla's XULRunner so, like Firefox/Thunderbird it works on Windows, Mac & Linux.
Clementine is a pretty adequate player, I like it for light duty stuff.
But for my pretty sizeable collection (22.5k songs) I use Nightingale. As a bonus, it's cross-platform.
Looks like you've downloaded a tarball. At the bottom of their downloads page is a note about Ubuntu. Because Mint is based on Ubuntu, most Ubuntu instructions apply to Mint too. So you'd probably want to do something like this in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nightingaleteam/nightingale-release sudo apt-get update apt-cache search nightingale
There should be an entry called nightingale or similar, assuming there is, then:
sudo apt-get install nightingale
Alternatively, if you don't want to use the terminal, their downloads page links to this, which gives a broad instruction on how to do the above using the GUI.
I too (used to) love Songbird. Good news is that some people are working on a replacement project called "Nightingale". Check out the site to follow there current developments.
You'll find what your looking for or satisfied the least.
I found all my alternative in my first five days. Then after years, I found something that is a tad better, then I just switch.
I'm using LibreOffice as well. But there is something actually better then LibreOffice. Which is SoftMaker FreeOffice. Myself haven't change, because LibreOffice Suite fit's all my needs. But I think SoftMaker FreeOffice has more features, that other's might be seeking.
As for editing I was using OpenShot and ShotCut. But KDenLive is better with more features.
Try out Clementine for a while. Many settings and plugins for this player. I found a between sweet spot with this player. But if it don't fit quite right for you, just keep looking then.
Did you every give Nightingale a look? If Quod Libet didn't workout for you.
Personally I'm very fond of Nightingale for general use - I love its library management, and extensible nature.
But I still haul out Clementine sometimes, it's one of my favorites.
I use to run that in Wine for quite a while, till I got use to banshee/c*/kodi for music. Still, I will always install it on the windows partiiton, even if I don't often use it anymore, as it is just the best Windows music player.
Also check out Songbird / Nightingale. When I first was getting off MediaMonkey, I find this to be a suitable alt.
Not at my home PC at the moment, but have a look here. Scroll down to the bottom where it says "Ubuntu PPA: ppa:trebelnik-stefina/nightingale - Have a look at this article for information on how to add a PPA to your system".
Add the PPA to your list and install from there.
In case you really want to go the tarball route, you don't install it, you extract it (like a .zip). It's an archive.
Clementine is outstanding... for what it does.
Songbird used to be my player of choice due to its extensive handling of playlists, smart playlists, and plugins. Unfortunately, they dropped official Linux support some time ago. They still provide Linux builds, and there's a branch underway. called Nightingale, if I remember right ... ~rummage~
... huh! Looks like Nightingale has come a long way! Hurrah! I may be switching to this soon.
Oh, but if you look enough, you probably can get an older linux build, which will probably be good enough for your sister/
Also they have this thing called nightingale, which is supposed to be linux fork of songbird
But they have not updated their webpage in a month. I would not have high expectations on this one.
I enjoy using Thunderbird (Icedove that is) and Firefox (Iceweasel) very much. I have not started using a music player other than Amarok (whatever recent version) or Alsaplayer. But I am planning on getting a lot more serious with my own music library soon. And since I am enjoying forks of Mozilla projects I really hope that by then Nightingale has made it to my favourite repository: