Music Player

[dflatline]

I use foobar2000 on my PC, what player should I use on Pandora? I want it to pay attention to folder structure rather than tags since my tags are all over the place. I also want to be able to point it at my music folder and just shuffle, thats important to

 

[elw3]

Deadbeef is always a good choice.

 

[TeDaDeS]

I use Deadbeef and I think it can load/sort by folder structure and it has a shuffle function.

 

[Caine]

Oh man, I have been looking for a decent Foobar2000 replacement on Linux for so long. There is just nothing like it.

None of the media players was capable of handling the original album MP3 tag (TOAL) which I used at the time for grouping OverClocked Remix songs. Yes, very specific, I know.

In the end, I settled for the Emacs Multimedia System (EMMS) with an external tool plugged in for reading file metadata. These days I don't really care about the tag anymore, but EMMS usage just stuck.

 

[levi]

Deadbeef can be configured to display and sort on any tag you can name, I think.

Only problem is I don't think it works with the concept of libraries of music specifically. I have my music set up in folders, so I can load in a folder and listen to an album, but if I wanted a random shuffle of all the music I have on my Pandora, I'd need to add it all to a single playlist, I think, which is probably not ideal.

I did used to use something on Fedora at my last workplace, but I can't remember what it was called now. It used to work with a library of music, but the UI was kind of clunky (and probably too big for the Pandora, thinking of it)

 

[b_o_b]

Rockbox - not the most intuitive GUI but has a ton of features. Add a directory and shuffle works fine with it, you can setup the method of sorting as well. https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-archosondiosp/rockbox-buildch8.html#x10-1200008.2

 

[Binky]

Although it is largely dependant on tagging, Quod Libet is currently my favourite. (Haven't seen a working pnd of it, though)

 

[TrashyMG]

I'm always searching for new music, so I use MPS to search and stream music, if I like it I can download the song. I like its command line interface too, can setup playlists easy enough. I'm not sure it's your thing but it's the one I gravitate too.

 

[benoitb]

For a simple player with a GUI, I like Audacious.
For the CLI, I like mpd + ncmpc.

Nowadays I use an Ampache server holding my entire audio collection with a Dsub client on my Android devices. So I may look instead at which clients supporting either Ampache or Subsonic are available on Debian.

Something with offline caching is nice, it progressively copies the music I like the most for offline use so when I'm in a place with no connectivity (rarer and rarer), I have a big selection of music I like without having spent any time specifically selecting it.

 

[dflatline]

I tried a bunch of players and QMMP in simple view is the closest I can get to what I want, which is being able to load albums and ignore tags like this: