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[EDIT]: Audacious does this, but Audacious doesn't view the file as a playlist rather as one file, I wish this could be changed, I don't know it might be. [\EDIT]

So, pretty much the title. I got this amazing Audiobook from Internet Archive and I wanted to play it in Linux.

But everytime I use VLC, VLC remembers where I was in a particular mp3 file but not on the whole playlist. Is there an application which will remember where I was in a particular playlist and in the individual file of that playlist?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish Strawberry had the ability to delete music files. Aside from that it's probably the best player in the Linux ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can delete files in Strawberry. Right click a file in the Files tab in the sidebar and click Delete from disk.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For some reason in the Linux Mint version this isn't possible ☹️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the idea, never thought about that 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just make sure it has read/write permissions for your music folder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Strawberry, built upon Clementine is quite nice (in it's looks), but although it does remember the chapter I was in, it won't remember where I was in that chapter. If I click on that chapter, it would just begin from the beginning. Audacious solves this to some extent.

[–] HarriPotero 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I usually use audacious for streaming audio, but with its playlist feature I'd be surprised if it didn't remember the spot in a file.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use audacious for my flac files and yes, it does remember position.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! Audacious worked. But, worked in a manner which I didn't prefer.

You see, if you download a audiobook from Internet Archive and it has chapters written into them, Clementine or Strawberry player would expand those chapters and show them as separate. But, audacious weirdly enough doesn't do this, it views the whole audiofile as one file and doesn't view any chapters. I like Audacious and I am likely retiring Clementine and Strawberry, but it would be nice if I could see the whole file as a playlist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't tested if position in a playlist is remembered when doing this, but I know that Audacious can view a file as multiple tracks in a playlist using a .CUE file (like for CD images).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link, but imma stick with Audacious for a while, saying your comment tho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A music player maybe like clementine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Clementine, just like it's fork Strawberry will remember which chapter you were in (which file of the playlist you were playing when you exited the application), but it won't remember your location in that file. This is troublesome if you are playing chapters with length of 43 mins - 1 hour as I am. Audacious helps me with this thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amberol, looks modern and cute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good, I am going to date her

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have been using cozy for audiobooks and it works quite well.

I also convert everything to m4b so i can put it on my phone and I setup all the metadata for ripped audiobooks but if you have a single file that should also work just fine with cozy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

mpd can be used for this, by configuring a state file. Then you can use a client like ncmpcpp for the terminal or f.ex. Cantata for gui. I believe that Cantata can be used to set up mpd for you, but I've never used that feature,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried to do this. But maybe Kodi? Jellyfin might also work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Check if MPC-HC does it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's definitely overkill for just one audio book, but Plex can do that, I'm pretty sure. And if you wanted/needed to you could also stream it from that PC to just about any other device on your own network for free (they have paid options that wouldn't apply to your situation; probably being able to stream your media server content to remote networks).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

SMPlayer will do that, althought i am not sure about the playlist thing but it will defenitely remember where you where in the file

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haven't tried it myself because I use Audiobookshelf but maybe cozy is what you're looking for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also i use AIMP on android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Zeoic 1 points 1 year ago

I can't help with music specifically, but for audiobooks, I have found that nothing can beat AudiobookShelf. It is a self hosted service much like plex and jellyfin, but it is made specifically for audio books.

It was such a huge improvement to the way I listened to my audiobook files that I wish I had found it sooner.