Rhythmbox for me. I was using Spotify for a long time but I've been dialing that usage back a lot this year. Another factor was that I have an older PC and when I play games it uses more resources than I'd like. I took the time and setup my playlists in Rhythmbox and I've been happy. It's not winning any design awards but it does the job.

VLC.

But then I'm one of those strange people who doesn't listen to music much, so maybe I'm missing a trick.

mpv. I have very simple taste.

I've been happy with Strawberry so far. The default music player in Gnome is okay-ish but I wanted a music player that can be set up with multiple music folders and Strawberry can do that.

Fooyin's great so far.

Strawberry, was the first one I got to work with my iPods and that's my main use case

Strawberry or VLC. I wish someone would port Winamp but Strawberry is pretty close. I miss my skins. Showing my age here.

Feishin, connected to my jellyfin server.

VLC forever and always

Feishin. It's a navidrome/jellyfin player.

I love it, because it has smart playlists that are actually smart! It lets me create "random" playlists from my music collection, in a way that works for me.

Strawberry

Strawberry, Audacious, qmmp and Amberol are all decent audio players I have been happy with.

I use Sayonara for my local music player.

mpd with rmpc - unix philosophy at work. Have been rockin it for 3 years now. probably gonna stick with mpd for the rest of my linux journey.

https://rmpc.mierak.dev/

Extremely ergonomic terminal music player.

I use Strawberry. I like it's Dynamic Random playlist feature, and I can customise it if I want.

Strawberry has been kind of buggy for me. I don't have an alternative player yet so I am looking for input here too.

Sayonara player on desktop.

Lollypop on mobile.

I really enjoy Tauon.

Audacious

Amberol or gapless depending on whether I want to have a built-in library

Strawberry. Layout is great. It's cross platform so it works on Windows/MacOS too.

I wish it had plugins like foobar though. I keep foobar for the ABX plugin when I encode music.

PlexAmp

https://startrek.website/post/30351229

Basically ssh into the box in my workshop and mplayer my whole music folder on shuffle.

Gapless

Fooyin is my local player, it's basically Foobar2000.

Finamp is what I use to stream songs from my Jellyfin server.

Cmus or mixxx

The best looking and feeling music player I've tried is Aonsoku, connected to a navidrome server.

https://github.com/victoralvesf/aonsoku

You mean a dedicated hardware device?

while not exactly Linux, i always stood by AIMP - it runs quite well through wine