Amarok, Elisa and JuK. That's three, which is a lot, but it's not entirely uncommon for KDE to have three (or more) applications with a similar purpose.
I used Elisa and found it quite unusable for folder-structured music.
I only used folder structures as I found no say so sync .m3u playlists including the music files between Android and Linux. Finding a way here would be great.
Man Amarok was amazing back in the day, but that was many days ago.
It still might be good, and kudos for the effort, but Clementine has already surpassed Amarok. It would be nice to the effort going to either Continue clementine development, or make Strawberry as feature complete as Clementine and go on from there.
I tried Clementine for a while, but I didn't like how careless the developers were with privacy and security. For example, quietly downloading and executing a Spotify blob (even when I don't use Spotify), and sending pings to a geolocation service without my permission.
You might also check to see if it has already downloaded any .so files. (These are executable code, like Windows DLLs.) I found one in $HOME/.config/Clementine/spotifyblob/ when I used it a few years ago, but recent versions may store them elsewhere or do it conditionally.
The blob wasn't packaged with the application. Clementine downloaded the blob after installation. It's possible that it doesn't do this automatically any more, or does it under different conditions. I have no reason to investigate further, since I no longer use it.
Cool. I guess I was wondering if the package maintainer had set a configuration to pull those in automatically, or if Clementine was designed to do that. But in any case, thanks for the reply.
I've been using Clementine ever since Amarok shit the bed way back when. Actually there may have been a gap before Clementine was released because I remember trying a few other players that I didn't like so much.
It's cool. But the music player landscape has changed so much, I just don't need library features and what not anymore. I find myself just queueing things in MPV using a terminal in a directory full of music, launching playlists and stuff. I've tried a ton of music players for Linux, from Amarok to Cmus, and I find that it's all cruft and all you need is a media player and at best a file manager.
Trying it out today, I had a flashback that reminded why I loved this player so much: when I pressed the "pause" button, instead of immediately cutting off, the track gradually faded into silence.
It was not the smorgasbord of features, but the small things like this that set Amarok head and shoulders above all other players. Can't wait to see it brought up to speed again.
@kde@kde I’m pretty excited to see this. Amarok was the first Linux music player I ever used, back when I maintained a carefully curated collection of low-bitrate MP3s.
Years later I’ve gotten into purchasing and ripping CDs to FLAC so I’m always loving to hear about new players.
If there’s eventually support for scrobbling to listenbrainz and a dynamic range meter plugin…it will be the only thing I’d ever need!