You suddenly obtain a time machine. Spat back to the 90’s, two items lay in front of you. A huge Dell tower running Slackware and a DVD with the band of your choice. What do you do? You start the MPD daemon and use MPC to create and listen to your playlist. What if I told you that MPD and MPC are not only still available, but also the fastest, best way to listen to music on Linux? Well, it’s true, and I am going to show you how you can install, setup, and use MPD and MPC to listen to your songs using virtually no resources.
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Music on console (moc) is a nice little music player software and less complex than mpd. You should give it a try if you like controlling stuff from the terminal.
ncmpcpp has come closest to feature parity with Foobar2000, but I just wish there was a much more vi-oriented fork of it or something.
I find it a bit sad that this is the case. I would love there to be a simple GUI solution for everyone. But unfortunately all other media players are either not developed anymore or don’t have the features I want (ReplayGain support; album shuffle, i.e. select a random album and play it from front to back; recognition of the “AlbumArtist” tag). Especially newer projects like Elisa are still lacking quite a bit in functionality.
I’ve been using mpd and mpc for years now, together with Cantata and ashuffle. Unfortunately, developement of Cantata was ceased recently. To keep a bit of integration into the desktop even without Cantata, I now use mpDris2 which gives MPRIS support to mpd. That means you can control it using the media buttons on your keyboard, and it makes the music show up in the media player panel in the Plasma status bar and on the lockscreen etc. (should work for other desktops, too).
This is useful, I will try it on my computer. Thanks!
What a splendid piece of software!