Visually, it seems to me, much more attractive in comparison with other clients. However, the management capabilities are much inferior to Cantata.
But while this is a beta version, I hope the project will develop.
Cool. All GUI apps beside Cantata where always buggy for me, but that one looks very promising.
PS: If you’re using a plasma desktop, I just updated my widget this week after a while. Maybe it’s something for you. Search for “mpd widget” in the widget installer window.
Most often I use Quimup, which is a simple and very “light” client. I haven’t seen any bugs.
I use Cantata if I want to get some additional information, or just for a change 
I tried Ymuse, but somehow I didn’t make friends with it at all 
I will definitely get acquainted with your widget, but a little later. Thanks
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I like the gnome look of the GUI which, in your link, looks incredibly versatile.
My auditioning of Music Players the last 1 year has been a depressing journey as “shuffle” and “random” settings are failures on all of them…duplicates within the first 40 minutes of listening. (Tauon lasted 3 hours before it succumbed but it is not as easy on the eyes as others).
next on deck: Euphonica. Thanks for the steer
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I’ll be interested to see how this develops.
Great music choice, BTW. Clearly a person of taste.
Thanks
However, the management capabilities are much inferior to Cantata
Just curious, in what ways?
For example, all tracks in the current playlist are just a list, without grouping by albums. In Cantata, tracks are grouped by album, indicating the playback time for each. I can click on the album title and delete the entire album from the playlist at once, rather than deleting each track individually.
Having played with it a little bit more the groundwork exists. The Recent section is nice, maybe I steal that. 
But here’s why it’s not sticking with me:
- Picture downloads
- This (and mpd communication?) is not asynchron to the GUI leading to serious app hangs - at least over the network.
- Saves images as big PNGs (my whole library e.g. in my plasmoid: 120 MB, in Euphonica: 570 MB). Not the end of the world, but also:
- I ran into an issue that it would download a new cover image for each image in the Queue, which blew up the cache folder into the GB range
- Visually browsing of the Artist view is essentially useless: wall of letters or strangers.
- Queue
- Up and down arrows for sorting is tedious
- No multi-item Queue management (selecting single items or albums)
- No title numbers in the Queue bothers me
But then, I’m also opinionated. I will let it cook for another year and check again.
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