projectm VS cantata

In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, what's the deal with binary symlinking not working? Example, the ProjectM visualizer I downloaded and moved to a more static directory. It runs fine in that directory but when I symlink it via KDE's Dolphin by drag/dropping to my desktop, it does nothing. Same when I try to make a shortcut in KDE's application launcher. Why is it so to be like that for when you do it to get your shortcut?

I think this is the spiritual successor to Winamp's visualiser, ProjectM:

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

If you're referring this this ProjectM, then it looks like Steam might be the best option.

It can also be used standalone from this github

Here you go, open-source, stand-alone version of the winamp visualiser: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

You might give Milkdrop a try. It started as a Winamp visualization plugin. It has its own scripting language and a ton of presets you can poke at to figure out how things work. I'm not sure what state Winamp is in these days, but Milkdrop has been ported to work as a Foobar2000 plugin called ProjectM. It looks like there's also a standalone version now, too: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

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.