Music player that works with a large library of music files

Question

I'm looking for a fast and functional music player that can work with a huge library of music files. Banshee is quite OK, however it uses too much resources on my laptop and hangs from time to time. Probably because of my huge library. Rhythmbox was even worse. Exile got broken after some time.

Is there a player that can scan and manage 85 GB of music without much problems? Maybe something like foobar2000 for Windows?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '12 at 17:00

If you are looking for foobar2000 replacement there are 2 options IMHO:

Deadbeef that doesn't have media library feature, but follows foobar2000 philosophy
QuodLibet in all it's glory - fast, low on resources, handles large libraries and has even more features similar to foobar2000 then Deadbeef

There are some issues of course, like (for QuodLibet):

ReplayGain: recent foobar2000 versions use EBU R128 standard which on Linux no player has yet implemented. QuodLibet writes RG value in unorthodox tag (can read foobar2000 RG values, but not other way around)
ALBUMARTIST: mainly MP3 issues - if you write this values with foobar2000 > 1.1.6 then QuodLibet reads it fine, otherwise it's in Perfomer tag
No DSP and similar processors with QuodLibet, although you can use Jack audio output and use Jack DSP feature
No Converter, but you can use custom application through QuodLibet plugin system
...

probably other things I can't remember now

It is not true that "Deadbeef doesn't have media library feature" - it can display library with a plugin. I use it for that. — , Apr 03 '12 at 21:08

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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I Use Clementine for managing about 50 GB of my music without any problem. It is simple,fast and easy to use.

See here for Clementine.

Full list of available players : What media (music and video) players are there?

Edit: Also you can try Elementary music player(BeatBox) (For Ubuntu 11.10 and above only).

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See Webup8 for installation.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Jun 08 '11 at 20:25

Binarylife

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Clementine seems to be even slower. It scanned library quite well, but it slowed down my system a lot. – Karolis Jun 09 '11 at 06:21
@Karolis: Answer updated.See Above. – Binarylife Jun 09 '11 at 06:42
BeatBox needs Gnome 3 so it wont work on 11.04 – zetah Feb 04 '12 at 17:01
@zetah yes true.If you look at the date of my answer , you can see that it used to work in natty but now it needs Gnome3. ( Post updated and thanks for the correction). – Binarylife Feb 04 '12 at 17:48
oh, sorry for alarming :) I didn't even noticed that this question was raised from dead – zetah Feb 04 '12 at 17:53
@zetah don't worry, the answer should have been updated anyway so thanks for the note again:). – Binarylife Feb 04 '12 at 17:59

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 23:18

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gmusicbrowser is the best way, no doubt. Simple, integrated with main menu, lot styles to choice, etc. Take a look!

answered Jun 08 '11 at 23:18

mastermuchacho

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I think I like it. Works quite well, though it isn't as good as Banshee at managing library. – Karolis Jun 09 '11 at 06:23

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 09 '11 at 08:39

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i use guayadeque music player. It is fantastic. I have a music library of 140GB and it is very quick with tons of features, though it is a bit ugly. I mean the interface but i can compensate that with the good features the player have.

edited Jun 09 '11 at 08:39

Binarylife

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answered Jun 09 '11 at 06:27

aatish

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 04 '12 at 16:32

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I use Guadayeque, Clementine and the new Audacious with Music Library (Audacious 3.2, Gnome Pie 0.4, Xnoise 0.1.31), and all work fine, my music library have 317GB (54799 songs) and all work fine

answered Feb 04 '12 at 16:32

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 04 '12 at 19:54

I have to say after trying pretty much all of the media players the only one that doesn't mess with your file structure or choke on large music collection is "Guayadeque" my collection is nearly 450gigs and it loads fast is easy to setup :-) i always run the latest build from svn and update regularly with no problems.

http://guayadeque.org/forums/index.php?p=/page/installing#InstallSVN

this will give you all the needed dependencies as well as instructions-

also the ppa has just been updated to the latest version too

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:anonbeat/guayadeque

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install guayadeque

or

sudo apt-get install guayadeque-svn

enjoy :-)

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 12 '14 at 04:16

I prefer Quod Libet, which is a lightweight music player (although has more "bulk" than Audacious). Currently manages a 35,000 track media library on an older machine without problem.

Also, see this link for a great overview http://thesimplecomputer.info/choosing-a-linux-music-player/

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 14 '12 at 00:27

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DeaDBeef is lighter than Clementine, I am using it with 200 GB of music and don't think that it's close to its limits. I use the file browser plugin to access the database.

answered Mar 14 '12 at 00:27

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