gmusicbrowser VS cantata

Gmusicbrowser is pretty good feature-wise. It's very configurable and has many different layouts. It might not look very modern by default, but with a modern gtk theme and some fiddling it looks okay to me at least.

Perl actually had a pretty good UI story way back when. Perl/Tk always was well documented and Perl's syntax works quite well with the original Tcl-ish/Shell style.

Note that GIT's default GUI parts are written in exactly that.

Tk then hit a bit of a limit when it came to common widgets, and so got less popular.

Perl also had a good implementation of Win32, if I remember correctly.

These days, both Perl and GUIs are on a steady decline, so there's not much moving in that space. Gmusicbrowser[1] is written in Perl/Gtk, if I remember correctly.

[1]:https://gmusicbrowser.org/

Gmusicbrowser is great, very customizable.

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Unfortunately though, the Cantata repository on GitHub has been archived: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata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