I use Banshee here. (Links to SlackBuilds and -current packages are in my signature)
I have "only" 50GB of music on my local harddrive, but it loads them flawlessly. I had to rescan my whole library last week, because I put a never-ending symlink into my music folder (what the hell happened? :O ) and that caused some problems. All songs where scanned in 2-3 minutes, good job
What I really like about this application:
- It scans my music player (a smartphone with usb mass storage functionality) automatically and is able to upload all songs I have rated with 4 or 5 stars. These songs get automatically added to my Favorites list. The playcount and rating information is written into the mp3 files, so its interchangeable.
- When I buy a new CD, it can rip it to MP3 and search various databases for the track names and album covers.
- When I download a song somewhere and the album/artist/etc. information is incorrect, it can scan the file using LastFM and fill in the missing or incorrect information automatically.
- LastFM Scrobbling!
- Internet Radio Functionality with stored radio stations, grouped by genre
- Suggestions of similar songs or artists via LastFM or Youtube, it can play Youtube music directly. I discovered a lot of new music using this feature
- Artist information, A Wikipedia page can be displayed containing more information
What I don't like:
-The whole bunch of dependencies. Needs gnome-vfs for mounting devices, webkit for wikipedia support, google libraries for youtube etc. Once everything is correctly resolved, the damn thing works. But its hard to maintain.
-It often freezes while copying files to my music player. It does not crash but I can't listen to music normally while transferring new files.
-Handling of album covers could be better. When new album covers are downloaded Banshee stores them in its own settings folder instead of writing it into the MP3's. There is a perl script out there for doing this job, but it would be better inside
Back in the old days, I used Amarok 1.4 and was happy with it. After that, I tried Clementine. But the user interface isn't really the same. Some things I liked are missing. I don't like the way my music is displayed. I have no track information, cd rip or Youtube support and some other minor things which made me throw it away.