I would use that if I was running KDE on my main desktop.
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mpd and ncmpcpp
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I still use mpv and SMPlayer for playing all media files, including music. I organise my music collection manually into a directory hierarchy and I can search if quickly with fd and a handful of scripts, as well as generate playlists.
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hah I listened all of those last year. I just preferred the player on my phone for audio-books, so I could listen on the go.
i don’t have a phone … got sick of the thing and gave it away a few years ago
i do have an MP3 player though 
i mostly listen to audiobooks in bed through the night and cozy is great for that …
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Yep, I know I’m on Windows now. I’m sorry about that. But here’s what I do on all my music:
Folder structure + metadata is important if you have some music. This isn’t all my music. What I have on my computer. Maybe 5k songs or something.
I think it’s quite nice to have a music player who has a library you can see all the music in. Cover Art and metadata and so on.
Pretty much why I run Audacious (on Linux) - looks good, works well, and allows full remote control/queries from the command line too. Even have a conky that shows track and playing info, along with cover art (search “Share your Desktop” for examples…)
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Last 5 versions of Plexamp have been working quite well when using Intel or Hybrid graphics (optimus manager), but whenever I switch to NVidia the app runs, but doesn’t show any GUI.
I’m thinking it’s something to do with how the Plex/Plexamp uses hardware acceleration.
Tempted to try Jellyfin and Jellyamp, which are free alternatives, to see if they have the same issue.
I’m just giving mpdevil a try. It’s a pretty new GTK client for mpd, and I like the interface so far
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nice informative thread all i just finish install EOS on my daily runner machine and first thing iam hunting for is a mp3 player lol
i have narrowed it down to clementine or strawberry because they can both use musicbrainz for tagging and i love to tag my music correctly and name it nicely and have covers while the music plays.
do either have a view where the player becomes like a taskbar maybe i small cover and artist album song name and play back forward ect
or shall i just get a taskbar like player and something else for tagging but then not much point in taskbar idea if it doesnt show the covers lol
what do u think?
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I also think Strawberry is a good player. Maybe not so pretty, but works. For tagging, I use Kid3. It is good to manage all the metadata that the files may have.
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Generally I use Clementine, but I would like to switch over to Strawberry. The problem is that it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO inconceivably slow still at building it’s DB. Literally it takes 10-15 minutes to add music from my NAS to a playlist (using select all > replace playlist) vs. 30-40 seconds for Clementine. So Strawberry is still unusable to me.
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I run Audacious, but I display with conky 
. like so:
Edit: fixed temporary white borders…
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I’ve used Clementine for years. Last year, to try something different, I tried Strawberry for a few weeks and decided there really wasn’t any reason to switch away from Clementine. Clementine is mature and stable and is my preference although there are others that are mature and stable that work just as well. I could never get into Quod Libet but that’s the great thing about Linux. Horses for courses.
I think I’ll go over on VLC4 for music too when it comes. I use it for movies/series. I’ve tested it a few times and like where they take VLC4 for music.
I know it’s on Windows. But looks the same on Linux. Posted the picture in here before with another nickname 
Been using Quod Libet for some time now and it replaced Clementine.
The sound is better and it is gtk.
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ouch that would drive me up that wall 
i also have a nas going so ya that would not be a good idea
thanks i’ll give clementine a go … thanks all 
cmus or Deadbeef… for music both very fast +minimal 
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um so iam trying out different players and i was able to install and remove others with “yay -Rns appname” but now quod libet wont let me remove it using the same command not sure why it just says
“yay -Rns quod libet
error: target not found: quod
error: target not found: libet”