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OK, so I use OSX, and I want to play mp3s that I have locally, and see them in a library format that I can search. Even maybe have album art, though I'm not fus

by SCdF 10y ago

OK, so I use OSX, and I want to play mp3s that I have locally, and see them in a library format that I can search. Even maybe have album art, though I'm not fussed. Ignoring itunes, how do I do it? What is a good fast low memory music playing app with library management? If I was on Windows I'd be using Foobar2k. On OSX it seems to be either itunes, a command line app, or various bloated messes that aren't honestly better than itunes.

ldjb 10y ago
Have you tried Clementine? https://www.clementine-player.org https://www.clementine-player.org
tomasandrle 10y ago
Vox is not perfect but works fine as a player: http://coppertino.com/vox/mac http://coppertino.com/vox/mac
aidos 10y ago
In a similar vein, is there a general recommendation for locally web hosting your music yourself. Is it one of the plexy type setups? More OT, but what about personal photos / videos? I find the whole Apple photos experience depressing. Two examples of why - my wife and I really share a photo collection, but it's neigh on impossible for us to automatically sync all our images to one another - this weekend I made a stop motion clip with my kids by taking photos on my phone. We tried to move the images to my computer so we could put them together / edit them but were stuck waiting for the devices to sync on some sort of black magic driven schedule. Is there any general solution out there for families who want to share their content (local music collection and photos / videos taken) seamlessly?
Keyframe 10y ago
On OSX I quit and just use preview. I'm not even kidding.
swiley 10y ago
Open cubic player might have OSX support (OSX has OSS right?) Is it a mess? Yes, but it's not really bloated.
dade_ 10y ago
Quod Libet is cross platform and runs on my Ubuntu box, Windows Surface and MacBook Pro. It is fast, has a simple interface that actually works and has been extremely stable. It also manages playlists that work in my car's USB port. I do like having my music in the cloud, and finally settled on Dropbox. I am still looking for a decent Android Dropbox music player for this setup, but for iOS, I use Eddy cloud music player/streamer. It even bookmarks my place in audio books. Sad part about Eddy is that it takes so long processing my entire music library on Dropbox and starts the whole process over when reinstalled. Also, haven't figured out how to get it to work with playlists saved to Dropbox, but I have asked for the feature. It was Apple's changes to the music app on my iPhone that finally annoyed me enough to seek an alternative setup which baffles me, because the only reason I was convinced to ever purchase my first Apple product was an iPod and they have completely screwed it up. I did use Google Music, but Google's insistence that the desktop doesn't exist made it useless on Windows & Mac. I tried every Google Music app I could find for either platform. They are unstable, often slow, and usually break every time there is an API change.
NelsonMinar 10y ago
There isn't a good one, because iTunes sucked all the oxygen out of the room. I gave up. I use VLC to play single files (no library), and I have a separate Sonos system with its own speakers and amp for my library.
nathan_long 10y ago
For just playing mp3s, I like https://cmus.github.io/ https://cmus.github.io/

by SCdF 10y ago

ldjb 10y ago

Have you tried Clementine? https://www.clementine-player.org https://www.clementine-player.org

tomasandrle 10y ago

Vox is not perfect but works fine as a player: http://coppertino.com/vox/mac http://coppertino.com/vox/mac

aidos 10y ago

In a similar vein, is there a general recommendation for locally web hosting your music yourself. Is it one of the plexy type setups? More OT, but what about personal photos / videos? I find the whole Apple photos experience depressing. Two examples of why - my wife and I really share a photo collection, but it's neigh on impossible for us to automatically sync all our images to one another - this weekend I made a stop motion clip with my kids by taking photos on my phone. We tried to move the images to my computer so we could put them together / edit them but were stuck waiting for the devices to sync on some sort of black magic driven schedule. Is there any general solution out there for families who want to share their content (local music collection and photos / videos taken) seamlessly?

Keyframe 10y ago

On OSX I quit and just use preview. I'm not even kidding.

swiley 10y ago

Open cubic player might have OSX support (OSX has OSS right?) Is it a mess? Yes, but it's not really bloated.

dade_ 10y ago

Quod Libet is cross platform and runs on my Ubuntu box, Windows Surface and MacBook Pro. It is fast, has a simple interface that actually works and has been extremely stable. It also manages playlists that work in my car's USB port. I do like having my music in the cloud, and finally settled on Dropbox. I am still looking for a decent Android Dropbox music player for this setup, but for iOS, I use Eddy cloud music player/streamer. It even bookmarks my place in audio books. Sad part about Eddy is that it takes so long processing my entire music library on Dropbox and starts the whole process over when reinstalled. Also, haven't figured out how to get it to work with playlists saved to Dropbox, but I have asked for the feature. It was Apple's changes to the music app on my iPhone that finally annoyed me enough to seek an alternative setup which baffles me, because the only reason I was convinced to ever purchase my first Apple product was an iPod and they have completely screwed it up. I did use Google Music, but Google's insistence that the desktop doesn't exist made it useless on Windows & Mac. I tried every Google Music app I could find for either platform. They are unstable, often slow, and usually break every time there is an API change.

NelsonMinar 10y ago

There isn't a good one, because iTunes sucked all the oxygen out of the room. I gave up. I use VLC to play single files (no library), and I have a separate Sonos system with its own speakers and amp for my library.

nathan_long 10y ago

For just playing mp3s, I like https://cmus.github.io/ https://cmus.github.io/