goodbye Deadbeef you are **** too

brent

BuzzPCSOS Relying on computers to provide a random choice kind of breaks what computers are about. Putting in the effort to create a random-ish play order can certainly provide you with a kind of random mix although the same song order will play each time.

I think you are right. I was not looking at it that way, but I think I should have been.

BuzzPCSOS

brent A small addition because I mentioned it. Mp3gain backend can be installed from the repo by using sudo eopkg it mp3gain. There is a nice frontend for this called Qmp3gain which is very similar to the Windows Mp3gain layout and runs much faster too.
This and a decent mp3 tag editor are essential add-ons for anyone wishing to play any number of tracks from various sources.
My dependency on Wine is now ended 😄 a very profitable thread for me anyway 😆

Solarmass

I never use Shuffle feature in music players 🤷
Try maybe my favorite music player tauon, maybe it has better Shuffle 🤷

Edit: I see it has Shuffle Lockdown option, not sure what it does..

Clintre

Solarmass tauon is a solid player.

brent

Solarmass Try maybe my favorite music player tauon, maybe it has better Shuffle 🤷

Clintre

didn't really want to go outside of repo for something as simple as a music player, but noted about Tauon.
On Endeavour I use AUR Praga which is also solid but tends to play duplicates as well.

Solarmass I never use Shuffle feature in music players 🤷

that would solve my problem....to have my curated music in some kind of unrecognizable order so music player can play all the songs in order would be the kind of Wile Coyote project I could invest time in 🙂

Solarmass

brent didn't really want to go outside of repo for something as simple as a music player, but noted about Tauon.
On Endeavour I use AUR Praga which is also solid but tends to play duplicates as well.

Tauon was recently added to Arch repo btw, no need for flatpak or AUR 😉

brent that would solve my problem....to have my curated music in some kind of unrecognizable order so music player can play all the songs in order would be the kind of Wile Coyote project I could invest time in 🙂

I mostly listen by albums in order that the artist envisioned. I also like to mark the best songs in the playlist with 💓 So later I could add to the queue only favorite songs I can listen first, some of them several times.

Clintre

Solarmass

On Arch you say!
I actually have an Arch distrobox on my system, so I just installed it that way to test it out. Working perfectly! This is why I love distrobox.

Probably could do a package request for here as well.

brent

Solarmass Tauon was recently added to Arch repo btw, no need for flatpak or AUR

I will yay -Rns pragha-bin thensudo pacman -S tauon then later. Muchas!

Solarmass I mostly listen by albums in order that the artist envisioned

I can't eve n modern music players to respect the 01,02,03 ETC tracks so I can listen to the way the artist envisioned sometimes 🙁
report back on Tauon, thanks to you and @Clintre for the tip. thanks for the great info as well

Solarmass

Clintre Probably could do a package request for here as well.

I would like to have a native eopkg package. I think it has many (python) dependencies so it would be not easy to maintain.

mkl

Clintre
What's interesting here isn't Solus or Arch, but this... it shows really good taste 😉

Clintre

Solarmass Yeah I was just looking at it to see if I would be willing to package it and yeah, just a few requirements. Well I am liking the distrobox Arch version better than flatpak. Bit more snappy to launch and works great.

brent

mkl 🤘 🙂

Clintre

mkl Grew up listening to them. My dad loves them as well.

qsl

Someday someone will emulate MusicMatch Jukebox. To this day, the best "random" player software I've used.

brent

qsl Someday someone will emulate MusicMatch Jukebox. To this day, the best "random" player software I've used.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=musicmatch++linux&ia=web

flatpaks and snaps and maybe source code for "musixmatch jukebox" on linux. wonder if that's somebody's fork? when I get closer to the end of my to-do list I will find out 🙂.

"MusicMatch Jukebox" asfaik is only WIN/Wine as you alluded.

brent

@Solarmass @Clintre

Had a 2.5-hour block where I was able to concentrate on (digital)l work with no distraction today. With Tauon.

RESULT: in 'shuffle mode' I had NO duplicates. First time in a couple or more years.

I could count half a dozen players I've used recently that couldn't make the 1 hour hurdle without a repeat.

Now if it starts the duplicate BS in the 3rd hour my heart will be broke. But Tauon solid overall.
Thanks for the rec.

Solarmass

brent great that Tauon shuffle mode is working for you. The player is just amazing! And it can work like radio-player too 🙂

You can read about more cool features in documentation:
https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/manual/overview

brent

Solarmass muchas!

around the 4th hour it played its first duplicate but that's head and shoulders above the rest. will stick with it.
thanks for the link I liked radio as well via radiotray but I'm sure they all draw upon the same stations. I am rocking on 🙂

Xoph

Just installed the Tauon flatpak earlier today based on this thread. Set it up and have to say I like it. It is not flashy, but looks sleek and simple. Exactly my style and it does the job well. Thanks for the recommendation @Solarmass

And yeah @Clintre I looked at the dependencies for Tauon. I do quite a bit of Python dev work for my job and I am just going to say that list made my head hurt. I wouldn't want to package that, even if I knew how to package for Solus.

brent

Xoph Just installed the Tauon flatpak earlier today based on this thread. Set it up and have to say I like it. It is not flashy, but looks sleek and simple. Exactly my style and it does the job well.

my style as well. not flashy. just a list with small menu. I loved Strawberry and all the ones like that, so gorgeous on the eyes but I just want music to play, not much more 🙂

My first day with Tauon has been great

Solarmass

Xoph Just installed the Tauon flatpak earlier today based on this thread. Set it up and have to say I like it. It is not flashy, but looks sleek and simple. Exactly my style and it does the job well.

Sleek and simple, exactly! It's minimal but very functional and customizable with a lot of cool hidden features!

It has a perfect 3-pane layout: playlist list > playlist > cover-art and you can have album cover-art to fill the whole cover-art pane! So dope!

One of my favorite feature is Queue manager. You can add songs to the Queue by middle click (!) across separate playlists and even the same song several times!

also

it has Showcase view with a sleek visualization (press F5 to see it)
it comes with internal themes
keyboard shortcuts support
you can mark your favorite tracks with 💓