deadbeef VS systemdgenie

this was my personal 'want' from deadbeef that felt a little awkward https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef/issues/2365 (recently added and recently played playlists). it may be doable with plugins or some shell scripting perhaps

I know not everyone is into this hobby. However, if you want to play dsf files, this article covers lots of Linux Players (and devices that use Linux). MPD (Media Player Daemon) seems to be a popular option for most of the devices and distributions mentioned in the article. However, if you want to try a player that does not require you to install various packages with root access, Deadbeef seems to work properly.

Deadbeef, maybe? This one is the most similar to foobar2k from what I tried (yeah I miss it too).

Deadbeef is the most feature rich player on Linux that doesn't look like an eyesore, imo.

DeaDBeeF is the closest.

Nah. They were removed and are no longer found in the repository's locale directory.

DeadBeef - Only possible with a plugin that is not obvious to a new user and easily misable

SystemdGenie is quite nice.

Not exactly what you're asking for, but maybe this will suffice? https://github.com/KDE/systemdgenie

There is systemdgenie. It has a kind of pseudo-repository (here) with a link to another repository. I call one repository 'pseudo-' (and it is here) because it has no issue tracker and because it seems to direct one, via a link, to another repository; but the link is broken. And when I try to install the program, using the instructions and code on the 'pseudo-repository' (which does contain those things), a seemingly essential step in the process (the one starting cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - I can't give the whole command here because it breaks Reddit's formatting).