Quod Libet looks nice but is completely lacking Audio CD support.
Strawberry seems to have it but I don’t like the cat and strawberry pictures all over the place. I was wondering if we could remove them.
Then I found elsewhere Clémentine which seems to have the features, but why isn’t it part of MeiscBrainz Enabled Applications?
Is it not famous yet? Lacking some big stuff? No one uses it?
If you recognise yourself in the feature request list above, please tell what you use on Linux.
For info, I already have Picard and @JonnyJD’s isrcsubmit tools installed.
But as I don’t know very much Linux yet, I don’t want to install many things to test them, I fear I would leave in place many bogus packages when uninstalling tested players.
The best players for your requirements are probably DeaDBeeF and Rhythmbox. DeaDBeeF is more similar to foobar2000. Some familiar features are a layout editor, plugins, and fb2k title formatting scripts.
Clementine is well known in the GNU/Linux/BSD world, but it was not maintained for nearly four years. Now it is getting some attention again, so maybe someone will update its interface. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine that adds some new features, but it still has the same old interface. (You can disable the cat photo under Settings → Appearance → Background image.)
I don’t want to install many things to test them, I fear I would leave in place many bogus packages when uninstalling tested players.
If you use a package management GUI, it might remove these automatically. On the command line, you can do it yourself with this command: sudo apt autoremove. You can also also tell APT to remove unused packages when uninstalling an application: apt remove clementine --auto-remove
It’s important to be able to try new software without a worry!
I moved to Linux several years ago and foobar2000 is the one reason I use WINE. It was a bit of a pain to get the NAS, DSD, hi-res and the USB-DAC to play nice, but all is good now. I have heard good things about DeaDBeeF. Good luck.
For rippers take a look at whipper mainly as it checks against the acuraterip database.This will verify that your rip of the cd matches the rip that someone else has done.
I occasionally use rhythmbox or vlc by dragging and dropping files from the network share and playing an album at a time.
Kodi is also a good option for a full screen media player.
Great option if you have a spare raspberry pi, xbox or a smart tv that can be dedicated to playing music while you work.
You can look at music servers such as dnla servers as well as plex to allow you to store all your music on a nas and share it out to other devices.
There are also web based players such as ampache that you install on your webserver to share your music then all you need is a browser to play music.
I am not playing a lot of music on PC but I am still using Audacious.
It’s the closest to foobar2000 simplicity and features I found.
But is still lacking many of its features.
Even tagging files is hardly possible on Audacious.
Apparently DeaDBeeF could be nice but I think I could not easily install it on Raspberry Pi, where I wanted to test it and didn’t find it in my old Debian 10 PC apt, either.
I should install manually but am so lazy, finding a software audio player is not high in my priority list.
I haven’t booted into my Linux install in a bit, but, I was using Lollypop and found it to be good for my needs. I am not sure it ticks all your boxes but I figured I should mention it. Apps/Lollypop - GNOME Wiki!
Wow, this was a late reply for a zombie thread, lol. Are you still looking for a replacement for foobar2000? I still say use WINE on Linux. I don’t use fb2000 too much anymore, since I’m currently using Roon for a player. But fb2000 & EAC is still my choice for ripping and tagging CDs. YMMV, laters.
Not really, as I use Pioneer PD-Z74T to listen to music, most of the time, really.
I do use foobar2000 on Windows and Audacious on Linux, even if it has less features than foobar2000.*
* I don’t want to have to use an emulator (Wine) or to install something without apt (DeaDBeeF).
So I will certainly read that DeaDBeeF in Debian #576975 RFP, very soon!
I’m interested in understanding that kind of things.
No I’m too lazy to do that.
And well, actually I’m fine with Audacious. It is quite good and I have a very limited use of an audio player (like once a month, or so).
I just use foobar2000 on my office PC when I need to do something more advanced stuff (convert) than just play.
But that is not a big effort! dpkg -i and it’s done. Install is probably easier than anything on Windows. But I don’t want to dissuade you from using Audacious, because I use it myself.
