Hello everyone.
I'm on a campaign to move my audio listening closer to nearly all offline. My current quest is to research which are the best options for offline music player on the PC.
I have a mix of FLAC and MP3 files, and desire to add more high end music files from physical media in the future. But the main need right now, is to learn what are the best free music players out there.
My current knowledge of PC music players worth a try are, WINamp, foobar2000, and VLC.
What would you recommend I check out?
13 Comments
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 166d
Winamp gets my vote because it really whips the llama's ass.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Classic. ha
moshankey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 166d
VLC for the win.
hitagi@ani.social · 3 pts · 165d
I use Strawberry for playing music and MusicBrainz Picard for file renaming and cover art.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 126d
Late to the party, but Musicbee is the best out there for Windows. For ANY platform in fact, but it's only available on Windows.
VLC is the popular choice, but in some ways, it kinda sucks. Musicbee is beautiful, configurable, has great library management, and...well, it's just really good.
I've been using it for a decade or so. Now that I've switched full time to Linux, I'm suffering withdrawal.
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 165d
Foobar2000 or DeaDBeeF
Kew if you want linux TUI.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 156d
Better than Termusic?
ReluctantlyZen@ani.social · 2 pts · 165d
Tbh, I actually still quite like the classic/legacy Windows Media Player
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 165d
I use VLC and my library system is just file directories. I found wlnamp good but it wanted to use the media tags which were often a mess on compilation / collaboration albums.
spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 165d
The one problem I have with VLC is that it waits to read the next file from disk until it's time to play it, which can be disconcerting when switching from one track to the next.
If you use cue/flac, then you don't need to worry about this. VLC 4.0 will fix the problem, but until then I find strawberry to be an adequate solution.
Strawberry is paywalled on windows, but WSL would be worth a try, and clementine, which strawberry is based on, is not.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 165d
Yeah it's not ideal when adding multiple directories as it'll only read a directory when it goes to play it. But I mostly listen to albums while driving so it's not much of an issue. It's a little annoying when trying to play all directories on random.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 99d
I need a good player for creating playlists for running. I just need it to flow from one song to the next, in order.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 165d
quod libet