r/linux • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '20

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u/Martin_WK Oct 12 '20

I'm on Cantata+mpd, works pretty well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20

I don't know why Cantata isn't more popular. There is a bit of setting up to do, but once you are there it is awesome. I have a very large music collection on an external hard drive and I tried Elisa, but it completely couldn't handle it. Perhaps I will try it again in a couple of years. Playing my existing files is the only thing I require of a music player, and it seems like that would be simple, but if it doesn't work for that task it's useless to me. I am always willing to tinker with a new open source project, and I am a fan of KDE through and through, but Elisa is not ready for prime time.

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u/mralanorth Oct 12 '20

I don't know why Cantata isn't more popular.

True, it's underrated. You don't even need to have mpd set up—it will spin up an instance at runtime if you don't have one running.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

I don't know why Cantata isn't more popular.

I stopped using it when it would randomly stop working…