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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] luci_tired 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

vlc sucks for music because it doesn't have gapless playback, and not everyone wants to use a streaming service.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My music player suggestions for local playback on Linux. Please note that you could pick any of these no matter the desktop environment if you do not care about consistently in look and feel. In that case I suggest to go with Strawberry.

  • On GTK environments: Rhythmbox, Exaile
  • On QT environments: Strawberry, Clementine and somewhere next year Amarok should be through its revival that KDE has announced not too long ago.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd add Quod Libet as another solid GTK pick, though I'm happily using it on KDE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Quod Libet was one I tried. Doesn't quite scratch the itch MusicBee gives me, but still solid nonetheless. Tauon Music Box is a gorgeous looking player that's similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Not to mention, Apple Music is so much better than Spotify for my needs and Cider isn't cutting it for me right now. Once they're not as reliant on MusicKit, I might give it a go again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's your issue with Cider, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When I've used it, gapless playback being non-existent due to it basically being a frontend to the web client/MusicKit for web. I listen to a lot of albums in full nowadays, so that can really hurt the experience. It's a shame because everything else about it is great. I am aware that the Cider devs are trying to find ways of handling that without reliance on the web client/API, which might enable gapless but also stuff like lossless if you got AM for that.

Edit: I should mention that Cider has a new client that's paid but still supports Linux (specifically with AppImage, .deb and .rpm packages), and my experience was with Cider Classic.

Edit 2: I bought Cider 2 and so far it's working well. You sacrifice lossless and maybe some gapless playback still, but it's a mild loss vs. so far a huge gain in usability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you mean gapless do you mean the last and first second are mixed together? I think audacious does that. It's the player I use.

[–] luci_tired 3 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure you are talking about audio fading, gapless is different. Gapless playback just means audio playback won't stop when a new song plays. Without it, the audio sounds like it briefly pauses between tracks.

[–] QuandaleDingle 1 points 7 months ago

Huh, I've been using gapless playback on Spotify so much, it's become natural. Yeah, that's a must have.