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).
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).