Which is your favorite music player ?
 

My favorite is Audacious.

Its really awesome coz it remembers the the last track played in a playlist and that too with the exact position of the track.

Which is your favorite music player ?

Xmms in a GUI, mpg123 in the terminal. :)

Rhythmbox.

Deadbeef or quodlibet. Deadbeef is my top favorite, I use quodlibet if deadbeef is not in my distro of the day’s package list.

I like Audacious.

Strawberry

mpd and ncmpcpp with Gnome Media Player Client on a laptop or other mpd client on a tablet or phone.

I prefer Clementine.

I have grown quite fond of QMMP. And I can use all my old Winamp and XMMS skins with it.

VLC

My Precious Darling Nincompoop.
(MPD, Music Player Daemon + ncmpcpp )

I like that name for it. :)

I could never remember 'ncmpcpp' either, until I thought it through:
Now it sticks.

But yeah, is much nicer!

nincompoop :) bash alias time.

Mostly I just use 'play' from the SoX suite. It doesn't handle m4a, but all my music is in .flac so that doesn't bother me.

I do like mpd, but it's kind of overkill for me.

I used to like playing music in xine so I could watch the oscilloscope, but haven't used that in a long time.

Hehe, nincompoop is the alias I gave it on my system, smoother to write, too (imho).
The "Ncurses Music Player written in C plus plus" as ondoho wrote it out works well for recolletion, also.

Sox is fun, I used to have some aliases that simulated the USS Enterprise hum and other such things collected from various sites.

Mine is/was Foobar2000, but I am tired of Wine :D.
Now my favourite music player is Clementine.

DeadBeef is quite similar to Foobar2k.

VLC

YAY! At least I'm not the only fan of VLC here. Thanks @Basslord1124!

Ha no prob! Been using VLC for years. Plays darn near anything.

> Been using VLC for years. Plays darn near anything.

Yes. Same here. :)

So, those using VLC, do you just listen to one track at a time? Just point it at a directory structure? Ever use shuffle?
I admit it's not hugely likely I'll stop using mpd but, since VLC can be remote-controlled I could find a use for it.
Oh, and the playing anything thrown at it makes me have to ask -- does VLC on Linux include decoding libraries not available elsewhere? I was under the impression that all media players used the same libraries (OK, slight simplification) to play things back?

Well, I just load my huge Audio/Video directory into VLC's playlist and choose what I want to listen to. I also use Shuffle for the larger playlists.

About the libraries...

The version of VLC I'm using is a custom SlackBuild (for Slackware Linux) provided by AlienBob (a member of LQ.org) via his SlackBuild repos. It comes pre-loaded with all the goodies needed for everything.

I'm not sure what Basslord1124 is using. Maybe he'll chime in and let you know since he's also using Debian/Debian-based distro like you are.

@273
This is the list of VLC's dependencies on Arch:
I guess that should answer your question... FWIW, ever since I started using Linux I preferred using a native player, and have never been disappointed - both mplayer and the much better mpv play literally anything.
The only thing I keep VLC for are DVD menus, because the aforementioned do not (fully - mpv are working on it afaik) support it.

Now mpv's dependencies:

Hi Folks.
I was also a foobar user back in the windows days, and still its the only piece of software i'm missing.
Used Clementine for years, but there were always minor Details that i found unpleasant, namely the Problems when proceeding .cue files.
Most of the other Players had Problems with the size of my music library, others had trouble playing some filetypes, so i stuck with clementine.
Few months ago, i found this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayadeque_Music_Player
its better than clementine in the aspect of handling cue files, and brings some neat little features. also it deals with my music lib np - the only thing i'm missing is a autodetection of additions to the lib.
Can recommend it.

Using VLC version 3.0.8 on Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3. I have pretty much been a VLC user for quite some time and actually first used it on Windows. Use it on my Android phones too (I use one of my old Android phones as a media player in my car). I'm still somewhat new to using Linux as a desktop again (used Linux command line for years on my server) and I've got a laundry list of things still do on my Linux boxes to get them where I like them. This includes things like setting up Plex on my media/file server so I can connect fully utilize programs like VLC for my larger media playlists. But honestly, I have used VLC so long, that I've got faith in it on Linux Mint that it'll do what I want it too. And if it doesn't, I'll look for something else. But I know for some of the media I've been playing on Linux in the mean time, VLC did fine.

Actually when I dabbled with desktop Linux before (over 10 years ago), I used a program called Amarok for my media collection. It did pretty good as well.

I'm a fan of Audacious. I like its simple, uncluttered interface. And it works with Jack. I have nearly 4600 hours of music that I throw at it and it plays everything.

Yes, I also have Amarok on my Slack. Usually go with VLC, though.

Thanks for the above replies. From which I gather:
VLC does, as I assumed, use system libraries and has no capability beyond any other application on the system.
I am doing something wrong with adding media to VLC playlists.
Thanks all! :)

Surprised nobody has mentioned Lollypop. Great looking music player, sounds great, and navigating your library is second to none.

Firefox + Youtube

The RPi 4b is quite nice for this task.

But most times I use MPV on the CLI.

$ mpv --shuffle ./ALBUM*/TRACK*.wav

Sometimes I'll use randomplay, but not since I discovered the --shuffle option for MPV.

Have you not read the last dozen or so replies?
Unless it does something fundamentally different, it sounds like any other media player on your system, because it uses the same libraries for decription, the same audio drivers and the same hardware.

edit:
that said it looks like a nice piece of software, and since I laready have most of the GNome abomination installed it didn't pull in too much cruft.
And as I suspected, it uses gstreamer to which sounds like everything else.
Surprised it doesn't require pulseaudio.

Goggles.
The tray icon is a "Calvin" look-alike.