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I found a beautiful alternative to MusicBee (audio manager & player)! (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Link: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

For podcasts and radio, you'll need another program. But this is the closest any player has come to the Windows-only MusicBee masterpiece. Via Wine, I've been using MusicBee since I switched to Linux a few months ago, but it was tedious to set up.

Tauon Music Box has the best search I've ever seen, just type anywhere and start playback with left click or jump to song/artist/album with right click. It also has a great way to write filter and sort queries for custom libraries (the same as playlists here). F5 shows the current cover and song name in "fullscreen" with a frequency spectrum visualizer.

Screenshots from my library with custom settings:

I also consider using it to play my audiobooks, because you can separate playlists to scan separate folders and not get music and audiobooks mixed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Be aware if you're using this for Jellyfin, etc, that you will still need a different program to fix meta tags and such as Taoun will not do meta tags over a Jellyfin server connection. Well, it will, but it throws lots of warnings when you try and it doesn't always work.

Technically though if it has access to the files themselves you could setup another library and tag them from there.

E: Though I say that you can do that then I tried to add my music folder and it did nothing, lol. Might be because my music folder is mounted from my server on my main PC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My music library is local. I use Jellyfin only for movies and series currently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah, for sure, I assumed.

Was just warning other folk because it is a versatile player and can play from lots of sources:

Been using it since I made the switch and it is a lovely player. A little complicated perhaps, but still the best I've found for either local or streaming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are the benefits of using Jellyfin (or anything like it for that matter) instead of just mounting the remote directory and playing that way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I use it so I always have access to my media. It's all setup when I leave I can still connect to it and continue to watch shows/movies/albums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, through the Internet, you mean? Makes sense. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I have been using this for a few hours now and it's pretty great, so far my favorite of all the players I tried. Left the dev a few bucks on GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My goodness, thank you for this. I hope the project continues for a while!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I hope that too, this is by far the best player I have tried on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does it use embedded lyrics or insist on using the internet?

Secondarily, does it offer any of the more useful tagging controls and library management features?

I keep looking for a Linux native player that can get close to musicbee. Haven't found one yet, they all lack major features like batch file renaming and organization.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It always uses local lyrics when available, otherwise you have the option to right-click sidebar → search for lyrics (supports Genius and lyrics.ovh).

These are the options for metadata:

For actual tag management, I've used puddletag only. But there is some batch rename functionality in this player:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks :)

Seems like it might be at least a partial answer to my preferences

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh wow thanks for sharing. I had never heard about this player before. It seems pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Me too, I found it on the bottom of a audio player list in the Arch Linux wiki. Oh, I use Arch btw. xD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does it have smart playlists that can combine other playlists?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, you can even generate new playlist with right-click from an existing one (most played etc.). You can also combine multiple playlists/libraries to another playlist like this: s"My First Playlist" s"My Second Playlist" a

https://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox/wiki/Generator-Codes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now, if you tell me it's subsonic compatible and I can use that smartlist feature with subsonic music as a source, I'll have found my new music player :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Network playback from koel or Airsonic servers

Don't think it does subsonic, yet. I can confirm all the playlist stuff works with Jellyfin though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Airsonic is fine! Looks like it should do what I need!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

So so close, but it doesn't import my ratings and play counts through arsenic, only the raw music, which means none of my playlists will work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Looks great! I've been rocking Strawberry for a little while now since I decided to finally retire Winamp, but this looks like it might be better in terms of the UI!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Looks interesting, reminds me of a pared down Plexamp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice music collection!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From those screenshots it does look quite nice! Visible ratings while scrolling albums is huge for me and I miss it. I migrated everything over to Strawberry from MusicBee this year because I only want FOSS, and Tauon appears to be GPL licenced! Strawberry absolutely works, but it still feels more like a settle. Gotta give this a try and see how it feels, thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Have fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for this! I've been looking quite a while for a music player that can sort by date modified (or created) and this can pretty easily do it while looking nice too.

Massive appreciation to you for showing it to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Try Cantata if you have Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Glad you like my recommendation! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for this!
I love music bee and this doesn't look like it'll disappoint

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can I sort albums by original date?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can use either y> or y< in the generator settings of a playlist to sort by year. You can use ypa to sort by year per artist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sadly looks like you can't sort albums by original date (y:mm:dd)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Now this looks like an interesting option. I'll be checking it out over the next few days. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Does it support custom playlists where you can "weight" each track and pitchshifting/time stretching? If so, this is enormous. Of all software, it's Musicbee that's keeping me tied to Windows more than anything else.