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Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It's also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I'm curious what other people are using these days. What's your favorite player?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It just adds another layer of abstraction when my file manager works just fine. I think it started back in the iPod days, and now you have a generation of people who don't know how to manage files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very possible. I like how Jellyfin and Plex are like, "We'll use your collection where it sits and try to figure out show name, season, and episode number from your filename convention!" And it mostly works.

Unfortunately when I installed Jellyfin, it put a lot of metadata in my /var partition, which was low on space. Oops on that one. So I had to shut down Jellyfin and delete the data until I get that situation resolved (that partition needs more space anyway).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...which is pretty ironic considering that the way they do it (at least in Jellyfin) is extremely limited and for some reason they don't use the file metadata. Like, I already have all the music metadata correct. So use that, not some fucking filename.