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The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (9 children)

"The state of Linux music players" but no mention of Audacious or Deadbeef? For shame.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Yeah, same. It's the closest thing I've found to foobar2000 on Linux, in many ways.

    Edit: TIL Fooyin exists. -> Flathub

    Thanks, @greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't see anyone mentioning Fooyin, which seems to be an attempt at being an open source clone of Foobar2000, right down to its plug in system.

    Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren't using it? Do they just not know about it? Its missing a few features here and there, but the UI is so 1 to 1 that I can't imagine trying to use anything else as a replacement.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Its making me feel concerned. Is there a reason foobar fans aren’t using it? Do they just not know about it?

    The latter, I assume, as I confess I had never heard of it before you mentioned it. Now that I've checked it out, it looks very promising! Thanks for the heads-up.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, I did not expect them to do that title justice, because how in the hell could anyone try 200 music players, but how did they get down to 7 and somehow skip some of the most popular players...? Did all of those somehow look broken on their setup? 🫠

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I've used VLC in WIndows forever, but it started giving me glitchy behavior in Ubuntu. Tried to upgrade to see if it was an old version/Snap thing, got frustrated with it not working. So I went through all the lists of Linux players, tried most of them. I like Audacious. It's not perfect, but it works well, and I can deal with some of the minor things that are more preferences than problems. That's all I wanted.

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