I’m looking for a music player on Pop!_OS that supports playlists, repeating a single track while still being able to swap tracks in the playlist, and also supports fading between songs and when stopping playback. And ideas on what to try?
So far I’ve tried VLC, Audacious, and Rhythmbox, but none of those seem to support all of those requirements. (Rhythmbox was close but the repeat one from the toolbar plugin doesn’t work.)
Edit: Got it working in Rhythmbox after toggling the repeat options a few more times. Still curious if there are other options out there though.
Quod Libet can do all of these things to my knowledge. It is currently my favorite linux music player.
Here to recommend Sayonara as its the best one on Linux, in my opinion.
I like to use strawberry.
After testing many of the playaers mentioned here, I can say Strawberry is the number one. It has all I need.
Is clementine available in the Pop repos?
Clementine hasn’t been updated since 2016. The fork Strawberry is a safer bet; actively maintained.
Elisa is a modern music player from the KDE project. It’s quite slick but not always the most intuitive - some options are hidden away in menus to keep the main interface slick.
It definitely has Repeat One.
Otherwise Strawberry is probably the best bet. It’s not the slickest looking in terms of modern UI design but it’s rock solid and still actively maintained. It’s basically the continuation of Clementine (which is largely untouched since 2016) which itself was a continuation of Amarok.
I like Strawberry but I do find the UI a bit jarring in the modern era. It’s feature rich and stable though.
Strawberry is super confusing with playlists. Out of caution, I have learned to save Playlists multiple times to a file and try to close them all before opening/playing new stuff.
Too many times I’ve experienced selecting something new to play not only replace the currently playing, but replaces the Playlist, and it seems to overwrite it immediately.
