[amlib]

Closest thing to foobar2000 is Clementine, an Amarok 1 fork...

The media library features are almost as good, if not for a nasty bug where using the filter in the library "tree view" can lock the app for many seconds for no reason. The normal search window/panel is not affected and is always instantaneous tough.

I've tested dozens of media players on linux, most choke on my huge library, but clementine is perfectly capable. It also has the same feature of adding new files automatically via inotify, along every other functionality you specified in your post!

It also seems to be lacking maintainers.. it has been on the same run of rc releases for years now! That means that bugs have creeped up unfortunately, but honestly, nothing better for people who really cares for their oversized music library.

[misterS]

There's https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/, a fork of Clementine, apparently created due to Clementine's inactivity. I've used it on and off on MacOS, but had some nasty locks which crashed the application.

But speaking of Clementine: I'm amazed that development seems to have picked up again, commits are happening on Github ( https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine) Last time I checked the repo it was silent.

[je42]

jup. unfortunately, strawberry has some gtk6 issues after they upgraded. with gtk6 dark skins seem to be broken.

[Schlaefer]

Strawberry Qt6 looks fine here. Anything particular?

[je42]

Yeah, i used qt6ct to setup a dark theme. Only, parts of colors are applied on my arch system. The funny thing is it looks good, while qt6ct is open. when i close qt6ct, it reverts to a mix of colors from the theme and the default colors.

[brnt]

Actually, the closest thing in media library regard is Quodlibet, and its under active development.

[amlib]

I would agree with that, and indeed I used it for many years, were it not for it's performance. It's just atrocious under a big library. I would constantly get assaulted with what I could only assume were garbage collection pauses, the interface would constantly freeze in the most inopportune times.

It also had a pretty silly bug that went unfixed the entire time I used it where it would (rarely, triggered while moving around the playlist) say it's playing song X but in reality it's playing song Y.

[declnz]

What kind of storage was that library on? We have users with 100, 150k files who are largely happy.

If you can replicate this on a new release (4.4.0 was out recently), please file a bug! [1]

[1] https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues

[raffraffraff]

MusicBee whips it, and all the other Amazon 1.4 forks. I was a massive Amarok 1.4 fan, and I think MusicBee is the dog's bollocks. On Linux, you need to install via wine though. But it's rock solid. You need to go for the 3.0 release though - after that, drag ordering of files doesn't work in Wine. There isn't a compelling reason to use the latest version anyway.