Im finished with Amarok...looking for alternative

[whatthefunk]

I recently had to reinstall Kubuntu on my main machine and again, Amarok failed to successfully import its own statistics so all the ratings and other data collected over the last last two years are gone. I used to be a huge fan of Amarok, but lately it just feels clunky and buggy. So what music player are you using? FYI, I dont stream or anything, I just access tracks stored on a harddrive.

[acheron]

Usually use https://www.clementine-player.org/

[Rod J]

+1 for Clementine

[dequire]

Cantana looks pretty promising, seems to be actively developed, and is also written in Qt.
PPA is here: KDE build of Cantata packages

[whatthefunk]

Trying out Clementine now. Seems ok so far. Its a lot quicker to start up than Amarok. Thats a plus.

[acheron]

Cantana looks pretty promising, seems to be actively developed, and is also written in Qt.
PPA is here: KDE build of Cantata packages

Yep, had a look at that a while back. Sadly Launchpad is down at the moment.

[vinnywright]

QMPlay2,,,,it's QT and it works .

https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2/releases

VINNY

[dequire]

Another potential contender - based off of the classic and time-tested XMMS Player: Audacious

It's a GTK+ app, however it supports Winamp Classic skins, if you're feeling extremely 1995

[woodsmoke]

Catana looks pretty cool so I thought I'd try it.

So I installed and it is in usr/bin but when clicked it requires logging into some kind of localhost with a password, I tried whatever I could think of but no joy, It is also not in the menu under multimedia.

This is on the latest and greatest Kubuntu LTS, just installed yesterday.

oodsmoke

[dequire]

Catana looks pretty cool so I thought I'd try it.

So I installed and it is in usr/bin but when clicked it requires logging into some kind of localhost with a password, I tried whatever I could think of but no joy, It is also not in the menu under multimedia.

I would leave a comment on the app's page in linux-apps.com. My experience is that they are usually pretty good @ responding. Or you could ping the owner of the PPA. Seems pretty odd that a lightweight app like that would ever need a login like that...

[woodsmoke]

Hi
well, I just installed from konsole since i was in the middle of other things and didn't pay much attention to it when it wouldn't get past the local host thing.

But in the back of my somewhat enfeebled brain I thought that I had fiddled with it before,k and I had, about 7 years ago.

It is one of the many, many clients for "MPD" or the "Music Player Daemon".

http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

"Back in the day" I was very enamored of using very minimal music apps and ran the original xmms and MPD from command line and used, surprisingly, GKRellem for a client most of the time.

I learned a LOT about Linux "in general" from that several year exercise, but, when one has 120 gig hard drives, and excellent sound cards and 16 gif of ram, .... why now?

MPD, in my mind has usually been associated with "Gnomish" distros.

So I installed MPD, which is not out of the box for the latest and greatest Kubu LTS and it then appeared in the menu under multimedia and it "runs" but with this warning:

KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/cantata'

It does launch but not all of the buttons in the left vertical panel work ( for my installation).

The configuration "gear" does launch the configuration menu panel.

It would not find a "folder" when the folder button was pushed because the button is unresponsive.

When I clicked an mp3 and designated Cantata for the to be opened with Cantata said that it was an unknown file.

The "Internet" button works and I picked Ice Cast and played a stream.

The Devices button found music on a usb drive.

As I remember and I am probably not remembering correctly, this client worked best on a "Gnome" type system.

It was not very capable at all back when I was fiddling with multiple clients years ago, like I said, back in the day of #! and a Gnomish distro that I was assisting in my rather limited way and also, as I think about it when I was running SuperOS when it was waaay off the radar.

So, the developers HAVE done some work on it, and it WILL work when all the necessary libs are installed but not my cup of tea right now.

woodsmoke

[sithlord48]

Qmmp is basicly a winamp 2 clone and can use many of its skins and i think plugins too.. VLC is also can function as a music player. And then of course there is Juk the other kde music player that i didn't see mentioned here.

[woodsmoke]

I agree! I also like qmmp for a variety of reasons one of which is the skins from xmms! There really is at least one skin that will fit almost any colour scheme.

http://www.xmms.org/skins.php

woodsmoke