What is Reddit's opinion of Quod Libet?

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I've yet to find a music player better than Quod Libet.

• Linux, OSX, and Windows support.
• Designed for large libraries. I'm talking upwards of 1.5TB. In my experience only one other player came close to scaling to libraries that large without taking a performance hit, and that was gmusicbrowser.
• Album art friendly. It's also got plugins to fetch album art for you.
• This is where Quod Libet really shines. In addition to having the most robust tag editor imagineable, it supports regular expression searching that takes full advantage of those tags.
• Does a proprietary music player that runs on Linux exist?

You know what ain't right to me. Having any Windows dependency on my Linux system.

foobar2000 substitute

https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

Others if you must look further.

http://alternativeto.net/software/foobar2000/?platform=linux

Have you considered QuodLibet? I can vouch for its tag editor (up to a point) and its powerful search engine. I didn't even know I needed regex queries until I had them.

Quodlibet, open source:

https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

JRiver, proprietary:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=35.0

There are more players of course, but the strenght of iTunes is library management and the presentation of the music, and i think those linked programs are the strongest for that in Linux (and other operating systems)

I have tried about 15 players, including several I've compiled from scratch. Quod Libet is the only one I don't constantly swear at. It's got some quirks but unlike almost all others, it passes the most basic of usability tests: "How do I play THIS song, how do I play THAT album?"

By column browser do you mean like this? The image shows Quodlibet, which is my favourite player by far. It can also stack the panes horizontally (would that be a row browser?) leaving more space for the playlist.

People usually recommend Clementine for some reason, but I myself vouch for Quod Libet for a very customisable, packed with features and yet resource-wise very lightweight, handles huge ass libraries without sweat, and generally a true "poweruser" experience for a GUI music library/player that is FLOSS.

Granted I myself use mpd in conjunction with ncmpcpp and mpDris2 as my daily player, but that's quite Spartan and it's not available on Windows. When I do need a GUI, though, I go to Quod Libet.