{"id":2014,"date":"2020-05-10T00:13:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T02:52:31","slug":"foobar2000-alternatives-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/10\/foobar2000-alternatives-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Foobar2000 alternatives for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of foobar2000 because it&#8217;s one of the most terse yet flexible package for playing music. I tried using RhythmBox that came with Linux Mint, but it&#8217;s annoying as hell. When you double click an audio file, it&#8217;ll adds to a default playlist and after it finished playing, it&#8217;ll go and play other songs you&#8217;ve previously clicked (because they were accumulated on the playlist).<\/p>\n<p>Out of frustration, I tried to stick with my favorite, I found foobar2000 has a wine port available on Snap package manager. Downloaded it and realized it has a lot of work to do to make it work on linux:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fonts do not scale. It&#8217;s always that tiny and not all the UI controls looks odd<\/li>\n<li>The paths assumed windows drive letters. Sometimes if I drag and drop files from a bitlocker drive (mounted with dislocker), it&#8217;ll assume the file came from some complicated path under Z:\\. WTF<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ended up downloading Clementine. It at least let me remove songs from the playlist by pressing &#8220;Del&#8221; button. But I&#8217;m not happy that it doesn&#8217;t have CDDB.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there are better options the Clementine. I found this StackExchange while searching for FreeDB options:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/541977\/a-music-player-with-cd-ripping-and-cddb-lookup<\/p>\n<p>Turns out <strong>DeaDBeeF<\/strong> (a hex pun) looks like a watered down version of foobar2000. So, Clementine, Foobar2000-Wine and RhythmBox is out.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>EDIT: DeadBeef v1.82 offered on Ubuntu (Cinnamon Remix) 20.04&#8217;s repository mishandled files on an encrypted volume that&#8217;s unlocked. I went to Deadbeef&#8217;s website and downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/deadbeef\/files\/travis\/linux\/1.8.7\/deadbeef-static_1.8.7-1_amd64.deb\/download\">DeaDBeeF 1.8.7 universal deb package amd64<\/a>, installed it with <code>dpkg -i<\/code> and it worked!.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div><p id=\"pvc_stats_2014\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"2014\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p><div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of foobar2000 because it&#8217;s one of the most terse yet flexible package for playing music. 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