As an addendum for beets: If you're willing to experiment with a more radically different concept than most audioplayer applications provide, I would also recom

As an addendum for beets: If you're willing to experiment with a more radically different concept than most audioplayer applications provide, I would also recommend looking into MPD. There's a rather nice framework around it called Mopidy [1] which provides plugins for things like Spotify/Soundcloud support - and one such plugins provides integration with beets [2]. [1]: https://www.mopidy.com/ https://www.mopidy.com/ [2]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Mopidy-Beets https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Mopidy-Beets