Thanks OP, this type of posts is honestly the only thing I can say that I miss from Reddit, I hope people keep making posts like this here.

Have you tried Strawberry? It's the best one out there, imo.

I just want winamp in working order.

Unfortunately, this is not actually free software, it is distributed under an EULA: https://github.com/harmonoid/harmonoid/blob/master/EULA.txt

I still miss armarok 1.4.10

I like Tauon Music Box.

Python based. Relatively easy to compile. It's also on flathub.

Reminds me of MusicBee, good ol' days.

Looks nice, a little bit basic though. I'm still using Foobar2000 for my local files, haven't found anything better even though I've looked.

I haven't heard of harmonoid but will for sure be trying this out! It looks great

Looks gorgeous. Unfortunate that Subsonic is under "likely impossible" features, but I will try this on my home PC at least.

I've been using PlexAmp for a long time, but I've had a lifetime subscription to Plex for several years now. They have versions for Linux and a headless version you can run on a Raspberry Pi (this one still requires PlexPass).

Haha currently I use VLC beta from the Ubuntu PPA, ran through Distrobox as I am on Fedora and they dont seem to damn care about RPMs. Also no beta Flatpak, even though this beta is sooo good, new UI and flac fixes.

I find it interesting how large the difference between tastes regarding music players is. After the development of Cantata ceased, I was unable to find any mpd client that I liked and decided to write my own instead (if anyone is interested, the code is available at https://github.com/dokutan/cmpdc)

Firefox (for Invidious)

Using sonixd for desktop and finamp for mobile through my Jellyfin server and really liking it.

I did have to make a separate Jellyfin account for my music since I didn't want music showing up on the Jellyfin TV apps cluttering it up but not bad overall!

Finamp doesn't track new items in a playlist marked for offline play which is my main gripe atm.

Good for my PC but not for my crappy (but loved) netbook. Too CPU demanding.

Flutter makes such beautiful looking applications

Looks great, and it works great on my desktop. I also quite like its simplicity.

However, after playing around with it for a bit, I noticed one glaring flaw. It stores its playlists in one (potentially) huge playlists.json file. It's great if you're manually creating playlists from scratch. However, I've had several playlists that I've compiled from my time in iTunes, and then Media‌Monkey, all of which are now in an m3u format. I can play them in Harmonoid just fine, though it only shows song info for the first song in the playlist, even though it does play the rest of the songs just fine.

Meanwhile, since Harmonoid also has a mobile version, I also played around with it. My playlists worked better over there as it shows the track information for all tracks, not just the first one. I haven't dug up the files to see how they're being stored, though.

I guess a feature like "playlist import/export" can be requested. Personally though, looking at the JSON data within the playlist.json file, however, IDK:

{
    "playlists": [
        {
            "name": "History",
            "id": -2,
            "tracks": [
                {
                    "uri": "file:///home/user/Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumberAndTrackName.mp3",
                    "trackName": "TrackName",
                    "albumName": "AlbumName",
                    "trackNumber": 1,
                    "discNumber": 1,
                    "albumLength": 1,
                    "albumArtistName": "AlbumArtistName",
                    "trackArtistNames": [
                        "TrackArtistNames"
                    ],
                    "genres": [
                        "Genre"
                    ],
                    "timeAdded": 1554270035,
                    "duration": 0,
                    "bitrate": 0
                },
                // More tracks…
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Liked Songs",
            "id": -1,
            "tracks": []
        }
    ]
}

thanks op, I've been meaning to rip my digital music collection

I use Guayadeque for basically one reason only: it supports multiple libraries/collections. I wish more players had this feature. My collection is basically unmanageable without it, and it's large but not that large (about 30k tracks). Are they any other players that support multiple libraries?

I've always used VLC and my file manager :-P

Aqualung for me, but I don't use 90% of its features. It was the first thing I found that had a good-enough GUI but didn't try to force music library functionality on me (it has it, but it's willing to let me leave it off and just use the directory structure I long ago optimized for the weird nature of my collection).

Been looking for an alternative for iTunes for ages. iTunes runs like hot garbage on my PC, but for me it just seemed like there just wasn’t anything like it for offline music playback an d management. This looks very promising, I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!