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Your post makes me realise that (unlike with most other software, like window manager, browser, office suite, etc) I've never really had a clear favourite FOSS
by NoboruWataya 3y ago
Your post makes me realise that (unlike with most other software, like window manager, browser, office suite, etc) I've never really had a clear favourite FOSS music player. Even before Spotify (which has been my primary music player for years now). I've tried all the main ones, but none really stuck. ncmpcpp came closest.
- bombcar 3y agoMy Most used player was mpg123 - being able to install that without bringing in X is why I started in gentoo.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI'm a passionate VLC fan. Got it on my phone and PC, and set up streaming audio from my phone to my computer (so that I can change songs and whatnot from my phone while listening to music in the background of a fullscreen game). Plus it has the uncanny ability to play any media file known to man.
- thriftwy 3y agoVLC is great wheb you have 10 mp3s to play. When you have 10,000 you need library scanning functionality, etc. I believe these aren't VLC selling points.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI've got a couple thousand music files on my SD card. Never ran into any issues, though come to think of it, unlike on my phone I'm not sure there's a clear "browse by artist/album/metadata" capability on the PC version of VLC. I don't run into that issue since I use my phone as the source of truth for my music collection for the most part, and just use VLC on the PC as a way to receive the stream from my phone.