So far, so good. I'm now listening to Hungarian Dances, and so far everything seems to have stayed where it was put.
Better music player?
@nathanpainchaud : I want to thank you for encouraging me to make this change. I've known for a long time that hard and symbolic links exist in Linux, and what they do, but just never had any reason to use them for anything. This turned out to be a good reason! I've linked everything in my /home directory to its counterpart in /mnt, and it's working wonderfully.
The shares that are not originally part of /home (like Backups, ISOs, and so on) aren't showing up in Dolphin's list, but if I open the /home folder in Dolphin, they're there. And, of course, they show up in an ls command in the terminal.
Now that I've used links here, I'll probably find other reasons to use them elsewhere. Thanks again.
Audacious. Especially if you liked winamp.
WetGeek Now that I've used links here, I'll probably find other reasons to use them elsewhere.
For sure! I've modified four of our seven Solus Plasma machines so far, linking the original folders in /home to their counterparts in the NAS shares. And I discovered that if I modified the Panels settings in the Dolphin menu, I could get it to display everything just the way I want it.
Now, applications that save output to default folders in the /home folder don't need to be changed after installation. Browsers, for example, will now save downloads to the right place, without changing their default setting. Screen shots saved to the default Pictures folder will now be stored on the Pictures NAS share. I wish I'd made this change long ago -- it only takes 3 or 4 minutes per computer.
I use museeks, mostly because it's the only music player that has an interface I like (translation: it's pretty). I also maintain the Solus package for museeks. I'm definitely biased 
infinitymdm how long has that been in the repo? I thought I tried all of them.
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infinitymdm deleted post before this/ changelog said since June....about the time I ended my music auditions of course. downloading now. see if I like it better than current gmusic.
Lollypop is pretty cool for me. it's internal search engine is quite accurate and it handles well large collections (mine is approaching 500 albums).
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no thumbnails no flash. still playing with it. the queue button is interesting--a wild card jumping off point. there's tradeoffs vs. big shiny players but the minimalism and list view-only is appealing to me. only peeve is "unknown" artists and albums were already written in by me in the track's metadata some time ago and seen by most players but not Museek. Not a dealbreaker. interesting critter.
edit: apologies for deviating topic somewhat
brent it certainly has its quirks, but thus far it's been the only music player that I actually enjoy using. There's something about the minimalist style that I really like. Definitely not for everyone, but it is for me.
The metadata issue you mention is interesting. Mine shows both thumbnails and accurate track details. That said, I took great pains to update all the metadata on my tracks roughly 2 years ago, so I wonder if it just isn't reading the right bits from your files. I'm pretty sure museeks doesn't do any of the automatic thumbnail and metadata fetching that many other players do.
infinitymdm thanks for responding. in fairness, some metadata it picked up, like album 'title.' songs not so much, keep in mind these were brilliantly awesome comp cds I made some time ago. It's possible in the course of a couple decades metadata has changed how it is read. I wonder if the metadata is primitive on my end?
infinitymdm that I actually enjoy using. There's something about the minimalist style that I really like. Definitely not for everyone, but it is for me.
---that's my takeaway as well. this might replace gmusic. I am all about clean and simple anymore.
infinitymdm Hopefully I will end my inquiries with you before this is a full-blown hijack. Any additional questions I will start my own thread.
2 developments:
1) I cannot get a song to play one right after another. Like an album, for instance. I only have two options: play same song in a forever loop, or shuffle. How to remedy?
2) Ignore metadata comments. What a difference a day and a reboot makes. I've been saying that since 2017 and still stunned by the celtic magic. Anyways it reads my album title/artist/track/etc now.
graci
brent 1) I cannot get a song to play one right after another. Like an album, for instance. I only have two options: play same song in a forever loop, or shuffle. How to remedy?
You'll want to add some tracks to a playlist or the queue.
The queue is just the ordered list of upcoming tracks, FIFO style. You can see what's in your current queue by clicking on the little button to the left of the search bar.
You can add songs to playlists by right clicking them from the main list. You'll probably need to create a playlist - that can be done from the right-click menu as well. Then you can head to the Playlists tab (star button at the bottom of the screen) to manage your created playlists.
Usually, if I want to listen to a whole album, I'll double-click the first song to start playing, and then shift-click to select the other songs I want. Then I right click the selected group and add to queue. Sometimes I'll have some songs still enqueued from a previous listening session, so maybe I have to clear the queue first before adding what I want to hear to it.
For the most part things are pretty intuitive in my opinion (but of course that's just my opinion and may not reflect your experience). If you have other questions though, feel free to start a new thread.
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ok with playlist star selected + double click album it all makes it to the playlist for album listening. but shuffles. Unclick the 'h' thing then click the loop button next to it gives me sequence. Everything is intuitive after you learn it
. I didn't even have to do the shift-click. That part solved!
My mistake is assuming as I often do; other players I've played songs in sequence right out of queue bypassing the playlist creation.
This is still simple and elegant. Thanks for maintaining this app and answering my questions. This is my new music player.
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brent other players I've played songs in sequence right out of queue bypassing the playlist creation
I'm pretty sure museeks does this too - if you have a clear queue, shuffle and loop off, and double click any song from the main list view, it will add all following songs to the queue.
Oh, and don't give me too much credit for maintaining the package. That's the easy part - I just make sure it still builds after it gets a new release version. The hard part is actually making the software. Credit for that to martpie on GitHub and the other contributors.
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infinitymdm Credit for that to martpie on GitHub and the other contributors.
I had no cash to give but I did email him (via museeks.io) to tell him I like and use his creation. I feel I don't do that enough.
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infinitymdm I just learned about this music player from your post, and I don't know how such a good app could have missed me. Over the years I've been searching for a minimalist music app, and hovered between Audacious and Rhythmbox. I've also tried many, many others and they just didn't tick the right boxes. Weird thing is that I've never heard of Museeks until I saw your post. This is possibly as close to perfect as I've gotten. The only thing I would probably request of the developers is to enable an option so that the columns displayed on the library page can be edited. Other than that, this player gives me life!
Thanks for the recommendation.
I spent years being annoyed with Rhythmbox because of the notifications, which I couldn't find any way to disable. today I found out that you can disable them - they're provided by a notifications plugin which is enabled by default, but can be disabled. I never would have guessed that, somehow.
I might keep using cmus for the most part... we'll see.