I can't believe we're only 4 days away from Software Freedom Day 2025. FLOSS question for today, what's your favorite Free, Libre, Open Source music player? I like the lightweight combo of FLTK based flrec that works with sox. Sox, the swiss army knife of sound processing utilities is a very useful program. I'm also a fan of qmmp. Feel free to get some chatter going on about Software Freedom Day on any of the social media platforms you're on. Please use #SFD2025 in your posts so others can find and boost or like them. If you want anything posted or shared about your event on the Digital Freedom Foundation social media accounts, please let me know.
Hi, On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM LM <lmemsm@gmail.com> wrote:
I can't believe we're only 4 days away from Software Freedom Day 2025. FLOSS question for today, what's your favorite Free, Libre, Open Source music player? I like the lightweight combo of FLTK based flrec that works with sox. Sox, the swiss army knife of sound processing utilities is a very useful program. I'm also a fan of qmmp.
Thank you for these e-mails, they're fun! In the past few years I've been using rhythmbox, not because I like it but because it is what I found that "gets the work done". I was a fan and user of Amarok for many years, until its development stalled, and forks and alternatives like clementine showed up but never quite managed to take over - and I haven't been satisfied with a music player ever since. I know that "Amarok is back" since last year, and I'm looking forward to try out the new/modern versions, but it is not available for the current version of Ubuntu LTS which is what I am using in the machine I'd use it on, so I might just wait for Ubuntu 26.04 before trying it... -- ~marado
On Wednesday, 17 September 2025 4:15:45 am Australian Eastern Standard Time Marcos Marado wrote:
In the past few years I've been using rhythmbox, not because I like it but because it is what I found that "gets the work done".
I used to use rhythmbox also, but for quite some years now have been very happy with Quod Libet. It has plugins to do everything I could imagine wanting or needing, and it has a simple clean layout. It's all Python-based too which I appreciate. When I get new CDs (which still happens from time to time), I use Sound Juicer to rip them to to flac. However, other times I get music from Bandcamp and elsewhere, where tag aren't as I would like, and Quod Libet is also great at adding or adjusting tags as needed. As a KDE Plasma user these days (having transitioned from Xfce a few years back when I needed Wayland for something), I have also experimented with Elisa, but I'm just too big of a fan of Quod Libet's Panned Browser layout mode. If I need to convert flac files to mp3 for compatibility with something, there is ffmpeg at the ready for this, and a whole lot more. In fact, I used it just today in a little script to add metronome ticks to drama audio tracks, so I can keep my target cadence while listening to them while running. I had to ensure the tracks always ended right on a tick (with a tiny bit of padding) so the metronome would be consistent if tracks are shuffled. It worked out great! For video, I too dig mpv. -Adam
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