Looking for a relatively lightweight music library program

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I’m looking for something like iTunes version 5, where you have a relatively simple list, but also the ability to filter by genre, artist, etc. iTunes did this really well in the old days, before it got so insanely bloated.

I found a few decently good music players/organizers, but I haven’t been able to find one with that kind of simple filter UI. It’s hard to describe it well, and I can’t find good pictures of it online. It was a drop-down on the main iTunes screen, and there aren’t a ton of screenshots of it. It was easier to use than trying to find your desired artist/album in the long list.

The best screenshot I was able to locate is:

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Full (obfsucated) URL for those who are skittish about URL shorteners:

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You know… you can just type out the whole link without doing that…

Have you tried out Clementine music player?

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For player/organizer and other things, I like Clementine or Tauon.

For good quality cover albuns and photos for artist/band I use FanartTV.

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I’m just gonna go the other way and say cmus because its glorious.

But what you are describing sounds … sadly … a bit like rhythmbox.
(…I cant get my partner off of it either)
Close to that … but QT and more minimal … is qoob.

And if you want an uncluttered-but-abit-like-winamp sort of modular player then deadbeef is great.

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Clementine for me. I have all my music stored in google drive and Clementine can stream straight from there. Lots of options

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My understanding is that I don’t have permissions to post links. I haven’t tried it though.

Clementine works pretty well, although at 218MiB of RAM, I wouldn’t quite call it lightweight.
BUT, the organization is decent. I’ll try it for a while. :slight_smile:

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If you don’t have permissions to do so, it’d pop up. But you’re currently a TL1 (Trust Level 1, Basic), so you can post links.

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Tauon seemed a bit too minimalistic to me, but I’m trying Clementine out again.

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You can also look up and try these for fun :slight_smile:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#Audio_players

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Is rhythmbox defunct/deprecated? It actually has the browse/filter mode I was hoping to find.

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Wow, that’s gonna keep me busy for a while :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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No … theres technically nothing wrong with it.
Just feels a bit stale to me (too heavy for my tastes…but not actually all that heavy), and its GTK
(which isnt a big deal … but on a QT desktop I kinda try to favor QT apps)

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Looks like it’s been getting some updates still

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I do try to favor QT and lightweight apps as much as possible, even on XFCE.

I’ll try out qoob

I like cmus, but I can’t get used to it. I want to like it, because it’s clean, light, and terminaly. But… My brain looks for iTunes :stuck_out_tongue:

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If you want lightweight then mpd + ncmpcpp is great, and I think ncmpcpp can do everything you’re describing. But if cmus is too terminal-y for you then you probably wouldn’t like it.

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Memory usage comparison:

	Program		KiB RAM used	
	---			---	
	audacious	75284	
	rhythmbox	208376	
	clementine	254820	
	banshee		146604	
	qoob		134368	
	cmus		24848	:grin:
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ah yes … shoulda mentioned audacios … check deadbeef … probably sits in between that and cmus.

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I do love a good terminal app, but when I’m at work, my mind is in a different mode, and I just expect things to be visual.

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