cantata VS strawberry

Hi, I wanted to start using MPD but sadly I just saw that Cantata has stopped the development. Is there any valid alternative as a qt gui client? I see that most gui alternatives are gtk based and since I'm using KDE I'd prefer a qt one. Thank you.

pkgname=cantata version=2.5.0 revision=1 build_style=cmake hostmakedepends="pkg-config qt5-qmake qt5-host-tools qt5-tools" makedepends="qt5-devel qt5-tools-devel qt5-svg-devel qt5-xmlpatterns-devel qt5-plugin-mysql qt5-plugin-pgsql qt5-plugin-sqlite qt5-plugin-odbc qt5-plugin-tds vlc-devel zlib-devel ffmpeg-devel taglib-devel taglib-extras-devel libmtp-devel mpg123-devel libcdparanoia-devel libcddb-devel speex-devel eudev-libudev-devel udisks2-devel libmusicbrainz5-devel qt5-multimedia-devel libcdio-paranoia-devel" depends="media-player-info qt5-plugin-sqlite" short_desc="Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD)" maintainer="[REDACTED FOR PRIVACY]" license="GPL-3.0-or-later" homepage="https://github.com/cdrummond/cantata" distfiles="https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/releases/download/v${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2" checksum=eb7e00ab3f567afaa02ea2c86e2fe811a475afab93182b95922c6eb126821724

For now I stay with Cantata as it once was Kubuntu's default player: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata (archived). Not in active development but still available in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS repos and therefore I assume also in Debian. Don't think however it has the modern looks you want.

Unfortunately though, the Cantata repository on GitHub has been archived: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata

Cantata is a very good option in my opinion. And I learned recently about ymuse, which is another MPD client and could be interesting to check out. Just in case you'd like to migrate to a native alternative in the future.

Assuming you mean the pre-2.0 Amarok, you might be interested in Strawberry: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

It's a a fork of a fork of the old Amarok, supporting more features and modern support while retaining the original UI.

Strawberrry (https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/) is the fork, but I don't think it will do everything you want as far as plugins go. I would also like something that is Clementine but not 7 years out of date.

That doesn't always work on a Mac, so you might want to grab it's forked project, Strawberry (this is what I use on my Mac) -> https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org

If you use Clementine, I highly recommend Strawberry, it's a fork of Clementine which is updated more often, has a lot of bugfixes and QoL that I enjoy.

Strawberry for listening to audio files.

Winamp! Yes, it's a stupid option that wastes battery life, but I'm quite happy running my trusty old Winamp through Parallels. Been using it forever, and see no reason to switch. I've tried a bunch of MacOS native apps, but have never really been happy with them in the past. Strawberry shows promise though. I've had my eye on that one. I might give it another try: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

I use navidrome[1], its a music streaming server you can selfhost and then use a player that supports the subsonic api for playback. I use the strawberry music player on my desktop and substreamer[2] on android. Navidrome can also scrobble your music to last.fm if you tell it to.

[0] https://www.navidrome.org/

[1] https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

[2] https://substreamerapp.com/

I use https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/