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 
Better music player?
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.
I think Elisa is just about perfect, but lately it's starting to annoy me. With 6,532 tracks in my music library, every time I start Elisa, it takes the time to "refresh" the library. Yeah, it reads all 6,532 of those every time I start it up. And in order to get "refresh" to work, I need to close Elisa and restart it, otherwise the gear icon just spins and nothing is loaded from the NAS.
Does anyone know if there is a setting somewhere that I don't know about, that would get it to retain that informaton between sessions?
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brent I think all music players automatically run an indexer (it opens to populate from /home/music afaik)--
Yep. I created a symbolic link from /mnt/Music to Music in my /home directory. I just opened Museeks to see if it had the same problem, and it doesn't. It opened up with a page full of Bee Gees tracks, something my wife was listening to a while ago. No need to go read the entire library.
File systems (on Windows, anyway, and I'd bet on Linux, too) are able to trigger something to happen when something in a folder has been added, updated, or deleted. That's the only time an entire music library needs to be updated, in my opinion. Certainly not every time a music player app is started.
I might just start using Museeks more often. Elisa just displays album covers, and that's fine if you know what album you're looking for and it's not one of 7 album covers that look exactly alike. Then you need to load each album to see if it's the one with what you're looking for. For example, I have a set of all 9 of Dvorak's sympnonies on 7 CDs, and their covers are identical. To find the symphony I want to listen to, I have to just start opening albums until I find it.
I kinda like Museeks' way of scanning through the albums and showing each ones contents at the same time. And I like being able to double-click the first track and have it play the rest of the album.
Oh those crazy Gibb brothers, lot of great songs.
Museeks does indeed populate right away. It's replaced my old music player.
Begs the question now because I might be full of FUD: do they all have indexers? maybe some are cache-driven.
https://www.ubuntudocs.com/elisa/
"Elisa is a simple user-friendly database-driven music player built on the KDE libraries. It scans your music libraries, either using it’s own indexer of KDEs Baloo indexer depending on the desktop environment (it works in any) and makes them searchable and browsable by album, artist, track and genre."
there's gotta be a setting to stop it from autoscanning library I would think.