Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It’s also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I’m curious what other people are using these days. What’s your favorite player?

  • TheEntity
    6•11 months ago

    I’m an Emacs graybeard, so complex keybindings don’t scare me. My problem with ncmpcpp is twofold:

    1. It relies on MPD which is always a PITA to properly configure. Pulseaudio always managed to make it not work on a fresh system. Hopefully with Pipewire it’ll be better.
    2. The config format make no sense whatsoever. Especially the one with keybindings. It’s so cryptic I just stopped trying to understand it. Again, I’m an Emacs graybeard, to stress it as a point of reference.
    • @[email protected]
      1•11 months ago

      MPD + ncmpcpp, I hate both and I’m yet to find anything better.

      I’m an Emacs graybeard

      Emacs does have a music player, emms, which is what I use.

      M-x package-install RET emms RET

      • TheEntity
        1•11 months ago

        I’m aware but thank you. I’ve tried it before and didn’t like it. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, though I don’t see much benefit in tying my music player to Emacs.