Plus I don’t really want everything to be in a library before I can play it. I have to say that if mpd could play random files easily I’d probably be using that instead of anything else. it supports Last.FM scrobbling - Aqualung: worse Goggles: equivalentĪqualung is clearly superior on all accounts save Last.FM support, but I’m glad that Deadbeef, Goggles, and mpd are around to show other players how not to suck.it only does gapless playback on some filetypes - Aqualung: superior Goggles: equivalent.it doesn’t choke when adding lots of files, but does lock out access to the interface while it’s adding files - Aqualung: superior Goggles: equivalent to worse (since Goggles requires files to be added to the music library, which isn’t something I necessarily want just to play some random file or song).it does ReplayGain well, including on MP3 with ID3v2 tags - Aqualung: equivalent Goggles: worse. ![]() Rather than explaining what Aqualung does right, which I think I already did while listing my requirements, I’ll explain what’s less optimal about the alternatives from the perspective of my second-favorite player, Deadbeef. Nevertheless I’m quite confident that Aqualung would be my primary choice if I played more than the occasional few tracks or podcasts. ![]() However, because I don’t use Ubuntu/Linux as my primary media playing OS (that’s still XP) I generally tend to vary a bit between Aqualung and Deadbeef as my music player of choice. I haven’t even touched on the wonderful things I can do in foobar2000 with the command line, keyboard bindings, and columns_ui, but I suppose can’t expect that.Īqualung generally seems to succeed best at the requirements I listed, save for Last.FM submission. Neither Aqualung, Deadbeef, GogglesMM, nor mpd quite succeeds at all of these requirements, while they are all part of foobar2000’s base package or easily added with plugins. foobar2000’s library contains a bunch of track metadata and it automatically monitors folders for updates. All in all I suppose this is the least important feature. Plus there’s usually a cancel button for instant control, whereas a frozen GUI requires killing and restarting for that. If the GUI doesn’t freeze, but does lock me out with a “nice” adding files dialog it isn’t really that much better than freezing, is it? Still, at least you’ve got a rough idea regarding what’s going on and whether it’ll take seconds, minutes, or hours before you regain control.
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