Multi-platform foobar200-like player

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  • w3crapcli

    A collection of CLI tools to deal with the web

  • Looks great, foobar2000 was my player of choice many years ago on Windows.

    But these days I prefer the simplicity of mpv even for audio. It supports most audio formats, M3U playlists and HTTP, since I don't keep music locally anymore, and shows metadata and album art just fine, with a consistent UI across platforms and very lightweight on resources. Turns out I don't need much more than that.

    It's even extensible with Lua, so scrobbling is also supported: https://github.com/l29ah/w3crapcli/blob/master/last.fm/mpv-l... .

  • mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

  • mpv also works fine as an image viewer if you don't view many high-res photographs (I don't).

    https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7983

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  • mpris-scrobbler

    A minimalistic user daemon to submit the songs you're playing to audioscrobbler services like listenbrainz.org, libre.fm and last.fm.

  • > You can't use more than one scrobbling service simultaneously.

    Well, I have the perfect solution for you. :) It's not a deadbeef plugin, but a user daemon that can load the track information from any player and can submit to Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz.

    The project is on github[1] and I believe it's packaged for Archlinux, Fedora, openSUSE.

    [1] https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-scrobbler

  • Clementine

    :tangerine: Clementine Music Player

  • There's [Strawberry Music Player](https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/), a fork of Clementine, apparently created due to Clementine's inactivity. I've used it on and off on MacOS, but had some nasty locks which crashed the application.

    But speaking of Clementine: I'm amazed that development seems to have picked up again, [commits are happening](https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine)! Last time I checked the repo it was silent.

  • quodlibet

    Music player and music library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS

  • What kind of storage was that library on? We have users with 100, 150k files who are largely happy.

    If you can replicate this on a new release (4.4.0 was out recently), please file a bug! [1]

    [1] https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues

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