I ran across people talking about Tauon Music Box on a subreddit a few days ago. I gotta say, I’m really enjoying it.
Available in Arch’s AUR and the Chaotic AUR
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looks unobtrusive with no pyrotechnics etc. modest. I like it.
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I’ve got all my music stored on an Unraid server accessible via SMB share. Does this access network shares directly? Or do I need middleware like SMB4k?
I haven’t dug super deep yet. At work at the moment. But it seems to be similar to Audacious in that there is no “library” support. It seems to be drag and drop to a playlist.
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@UncleSpellbinder @swh
Is there a music client that you both haven’t tried yet ?! 
I’m a lazy guy and switched completely to streaming services over ten years ago. Not a single audio file on my system (except those which are being cached via streaming clients).
Really like the stupid simple ncspot tui. But it has some limitations (can’t discover / search new stuff which isn’t in the library yet). And strawberry is somewhat clunky, not a real eye-catcher.
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I’ve been burning my CDs. I’m up to about 6,500 files. So I’m always looking for a good player. So far, I think my top four are #4 Audacious, #3 Fooyin, #2 Tauon, #1 DeaDBeeF.
Are you putting all of those files on a server of some type? Such as a LAN server or NAS.
If so, are you looking for a music app with a DLNA client build in?
Pudge
No. I have a 2nd 1TB internal drive I use for music.
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I’m using this. It doesn’t look like yours, it’s barren. That’s because all the fetch functions were disabled OOTB, I respect that. I did enable one but went back. I was using spartan Museeks before but this is pretty cool.
He has yet to produce a list in response to this
The menu provides som basic visual changing functionality. I’m going to dig further into it after work tonight.
@swh hasn’t, but I mentioned my favorites above. “I think my top four are #4 Audacious, #3 Fooyin, #2 Tauon, #1 DeaDBeeF.” I’ve also used Strawberry, Elissa and a couple others.
strawberry has a visual appeal like no other but it’s a lot. I’m installing deadbeef next. I liked your other write-up that one and I always wanted to try it.
Off-topic: you ever come across the very rare chunk of goof-off time? I’m in that miracle vortex now and all I want to do is play with Linux stuff…
Strawberry is a bit much for me. Too much happening visually, and I think it has a rather dated look.
I always have goof-off time. Not sure what “miracle vortex” is, though.
Strawberry is like getting invited to a limbo party for sure.
“mv”=free time where there is 1) no one demanding nothing 2) no one pestering 3) no one calling or texting and 4) you are just happy getting your Linux on in yr zone
^^^ these aren’t common enough moments for me this year so I am enjoying my Tuesday afternoon/evening very much.
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Depends on what one is looking for. I don’t like the scrolling tabs at the top. And the side bar isn’t any better. Icons look dated.
Just a personal preference, that’s all. The beauty of Linux, use what you like.
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Been using Sayonara for a while and I like it. Strawberry was lightweight-ish but the UI needs an overhaul. Tauon just didn’t click. Next experiments are with TUI/CLIs musikcube and kew. Linuxlinks.com helps me figure out what to goof with next. I’ve got a lot of prog rock and classical so gapless playback is a must.
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you still rocking with Tauon?
Trying out Pragha all week. A no fuss player like I like it but not a lot of options. It’s like Museeks.
Not on love with it, but don’t hate it if that makes sense.
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Yep. Mostly Tauon. Back and forth with DeaDBeeF and Fooyin from time to time as well.
It’s cool you are juggling three players. and as you said above, it’s good to have those choices.
If I ditch Pragha, deadbeef will be my next audition. will report back!
Rock on 
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