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I'm surprised not to see any mention of Clementine (https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/) here. I switched over to it last year

I'm surprised not to see any mention of Clementine (https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/) here. I switched over to it last year and it's lovely. The interface is nothing special but it's quick and efficient, and the library updates are immediate (I assume it uses libnotify/equivalents). On Windows it idles at 70MB of RAM and 0.2% CPU whilst playing FLAC files for me. Similar stats on my Linux laptop too, from what I remember. Great audio codec support and it has various features for cloud streaming services, though I don't use those. I'd recommend trying it out, I think you'll be surprised by how nice it is to use.

xjwm 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of Clementine. It reminds me of what Amarok used to be...back before the newfangled KDE 3 version bloated it.
- catdog 9y ago
  Clementine is really nice (for the nyanalyzer cat alone ;)). It started as a fork of Amarok 1.4., no wonder it feels familiar.
FranOntanaya 9y ago
It still has buffer hiccups when playing off a networked drive (apparently an old gstreamer issue), doesn't support LADSPA plugins (which probably isn't too relevant for an efficiency goal), and you have to add podcast files from their folder to be able to rate them, but all in all it does feel like good old Amarok 1.x.
falcolas 9y ago
OSX battery usage is nowhere near as nice - it's very CPU intensive unfortunately. I enjoy the software itself (even though I can repeatably crash it when trying to set up some of the cloud music providers), but the power drain on the battery means I rarely use it when not on AC power.
- dungle6 9y ago
  There is something seriously wrong with Clementine on osx, which is unfortunate. Ui consumes tremendous CPU and is laggy as hell. This is a known, reported issue but has not been fixed. It is a shame also because there isn't a decent lightweight player for Mac even close to foobar. Foobar on Mac works well but audio in wine is a mess.

xjwm 9y ago

I'm a huge fan of Clementine. It reminds me of what Amarok used to be...back before the newfangled KDE 3 version bloated it.

catdog 9y ago
Clementine is really nice (for the nyanalyzer cat alone ;)). It started as a fork of Amarok 1.4., no wonder it feels familiar.

FranOntanaya 9y ago

It still has buffer hiccups when playing off a networked drive (apparently an old gstreamer issue), doesn't support LADSPA plugins (which probably isn't too relevant for an efficiency goal), and you have to add podcast files from their folder to be able to rate them, but all in all it does feel like good old Amarok 1.x.

falcolas 9y ago

OSX battery usage is nowhere near as nice - it's very CPU intensive unfortunately. I enjoy the software itself (even though I can repeatably crash it when trying to set up some of the cloud music providers), but the power drain on the battery means I rarely use it when not on AC power.

dungle6 9y ago
There is something seriously wrong with Clementine on osx, which is unfortunate. Ui consumes tremendous CPU and is laggy as hell. This is a known, reported issue but has not been fixed. It is a shame also because there isn't a decent lightweight player for Mac even close to foobar. Foobar on Mac works well but audio in wine is a mess.