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Strawberry?
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Strawberry Music Player all the way! It's a modern fork of Clementine that's actively maintained and doesn't remove high-res audio playback like Clementine did :)
Strawberry is far and away the best music player and organizer. As a long time foobar 2k user (decade plus), I can say Strawberry is better.
Calibre helps me manage hundreds of ebooks and is pretty much the only way I use my Kindle now.
Todoist has kept me sane for a long, long time.
Strawberry is a fork of Clementine now that Clem is no longer getting frequent enough updates.
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org builds for all major Linux disros and OSX WIndows.
Is Apple music your only option? On my computer, I use Strawberry. I haven't used my phone for music in about a year (even since the pandemic hit) but I do need to find a replacement for the google music app.
could strawberry work for you ? You select the sources from which it fetches metadata and when you edit song, which you can do by album, you can pick from the list, same with album art.
Strawberry is where it is at. Install from flatpak. It fits into the role of Amarok / Rhythmbox.
Here are the repos if you would rather have those.
ha, you're not alone.
In KDE you could check Strawberry (a Clementine fork), and it has this feature: you can change the default engine the app uses, choose a different one from the one KDE uses (i.e. if you don't have it as system's engine, you could use Kvantum with some unique style + colors).
I've been thinking about this the last few weeks. Only just joined this reddit and saw your question.
The answer is no. And it saddens me.
My principle frustration has been combining a bunch of features as outlined in this Chris Hermansen article . The only two players in the second part of that article that I found usable me were Strawberry and Guaydeque.
Both of these are still unsatisfying to me because both have layout issues (primarily that Strawberry doesn't allow browsing by cover art like you would a physical collection, and both don't allow resizing the playlist or library, which is kind of mad given modern screen resolutions). The tabs feature in Guayadeque is great (I have a 'Overall Library' and 'New Music' tab so I can remind myself what I recently got from Bandcamp), and you can browse by cover art but can't resize the artwork and need a magnifying glass to do so. Both seem to be using about an 8pt font in the playlist and library directory and can't be changed.
I don't use smart playlists, but I believe both these have them.
You can add folders to the libraries and it tracks them. This is done slightly differently on each. Software that moves my music to its own directory drives me bonkers.
The other features I hadn't considered, but sound excellent. Waveform as progress bar is so obvious and good I have no idea why I haven't seen this or thought of it.
I've also been contemplating adapting one of these to make a player I want, though I haven't done any programming in 25 years.
So.. snap? :)
>All of the music players I've seen are either ugly or dumbed down in futures. Poweramp is a perfect combination of both
So, ugly and dumbed down?
I like strawberry.
EDIT: Oh forgot what sub this is. I mean, I like vanilla!
The reason i use Clementine (though you'll prefer its more recent version Strawberry) is because its UI lets you browse large libraries conveniently. You can even drag and drop directly into MP3Tag.
But two million tracks is beyond anything i've heard of. No idea if any software i'm recommending uses sqllite, but i do know it will take forever to parse your library. You should be used to that i guess...
Have you considered just going for Windows Explorer? MP3Tag will automatically create a file structure for you based on tags, and then you can open different windows, change the presentation, use third party tools that were developed for it over the years... It will probably run fine is you keep the folders small and specific enough.
The size of your library makes it more pertinent to server management or archiving. Hope someone who knows about that comes along to help you, but until then these are my best shots
Emphasis on the 'old' - Clementine runs fine with large libraries on antique hardware !
Meanwhile, looks like the torch was handed over from Clementine to Strawberry, a currently active fork of Clementine: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org - no package in Debian yet but there is an ITP and a Debian package from upstream.
I'm absolutely in love with Strawberry.
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- Folder View
Shows your "collection" -- I think you can configure it to sort by physical files.
- Minimal / Material design UI
- Dark Mode
You have a lot of control over theming, including using colors of your choice & your own background. You can adjust tabs to be the size you want.
- Nice Volume and Seek sliders
Nice volume ones for sure.
- Large Album Art viewer
Tab for that.
- Lyrics integration
Can fetch from multiple sources.
- Minimal Spectogram visualization
Built in visualizer, not sure about Spectogram specifically.
Strawberry Music Player (jukebox w/lyrics and for Tidal streaming)
Try Strawberry player, get your tidal API token, insert it under Tidal preferences and bingo! Tidal on linux
here's a link that shows screenshots with Tidal working... https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
I used media monkey and musicbee for a long time on windows. I then switched to Clementine because it was open source and works on both windows and linux.
Clementine is great and has basically all the same featured of mediamonkey. While Clementine was abandoned a couple of years back, it still functions just fine on both platforms. I did recently found out that Clementine was forked and is now being continued again under the name Strawberry.