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Not to reply to my own comment, but this Music Librarian has a nice interface, similar to the iTunes Columnar "Song Browser" View. Available for several platforms, including macOS.

Only downside is it doesn't offer an iOS Remote (although it will Upload songs to iOS devices, which is a nice touch) :

https://www.clementine-player....

If you don't use Clementine it's your own fault.

I don't subscribe to any music service. All I listen to is Internet radio.

You have a desktop Linux, right? Start by going to vTuner station line up, and search for the stations/genre/language that you want. Click on the "Play" link, and save to a file. In that file, there will be the stream to that station. You can then take that and stick it in your music player. I use Clementine.

No desktop Linux? Okay, you must have a Raspberry Pi then. Just install Kodi:

sudo aptitude install kodi

Then configure the Radio addon, and you will find more or less the same channel line up as in vTuner.

Then add this to your crontab:

@reboot sleep 45; /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin --standalone -fs &

But, there is OpenELEC you say. But, Kodi runs on Windows you say. Yes, of course, but this is Slashdot ...

http://audacious-media-player....

"Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows."

"Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computerâ(TM)s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CDâ(TM)s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more."

There's also a "Qt port".

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Then there's Clementine:

http://www.clementine-player.o...

"Search and play your local music library.
        Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
        Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
        Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
        Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
        CUE sheet support.
        Play audio CDs.
        Visualisations from projectM.
        Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
        Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
        Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
        Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
        Discover and download Podcasts.
        Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
        Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
        Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
        Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
        Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
        Queue manager."

Do you have a music streaming rig?

I really like Clementine as a front-end.

On the back end, I do have a little shoebox ION server with a RAID1 library. But I don't really enjoy maintaining all that myself; I really prefer having streaming music playing from some human-curated feed. http://somafm.com/ has a lot of great streams, as does http://di.fm/ and http://sleepbot.com/ is also quite unique.

I'll occasionally use streamripper to record and m3u tag streams for, uh, time-shifting on the car or subway. It also makes a good icecast proxy, so I can have several clementine players around the house connected to my central box, so the house is just consuming one stream from the site, but I can walk from room to room and have everything playing at just about the same place.

A fork of Amarok. http://www.clementine-player.org/

Have you tried Clementine? It's cross platform and open source (started off as a QT port of Amarok 1.4) and IMO is the most useable music player around right now.

I have no problem with VLC for music, but Winamp has been a favorite for years.

Yeah, its old and funky, and that's exactly why I like it.

Same here... Actually Winamp is my favourite player for Android and probably the only Android app I've plopped somewhat serious money for (including the lyric and album-art download plugin)

Though if you like VLC for music, check out http://www.clementine-player.org/ , which is cross platform, still uses VLC code for the backend, and adds a pretty nice frontend interface with crossfading between tracks and streams. My only complaint is that the interface doesn't shrink down to as small as Winamp / Audacious can.

to Clementine: http://www.clementine-player.org/ Simple, effective, open source and very polished.

I'd like to see all Linux projects standardize on Qt as a their Gui toolkit. I understand why everyone has their own but the war is won and Qt won it.

War..Won!? All I see is healthy competition, and personally I run a whole host of Applications that I don't care what toolkit they are in. Having a look around there are some absolutely stellar QT applications http://calibre-ebook.com/, k3b http://www.k3b.org/ (although not in development for a while), MP3 Diags http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/ and of course Clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/about. There are a few programs that can run either that I use Transmission http://www.transmissionbt.com/ and Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ . But the Bottom line is GTK+ seems as popular as ever, and still more popular than Qt.

What is most bizarre is this about this is LXDE is looking great, a Desktop we don't hear about often enough, and is looking like a desktop I would use...half this discussion is about lets be honest a license subtlety I don't care about.

Conversely, one of the reasons GNU+Linux on the desktop has not been a hit is because of the abhorrent support for commonly used multimedia file formats. The common user may not understand the technical names of software codecs and the multimedia formats they encode to and decode from, but they sure feel it when they are shipped a default installation that can read or create any possible format out there.

It's an immense achievement that an operating system with a Social Contract dedicated to only including Libre Software in its main repositories can be automagically more versatile at handing more media formats than proprietary OSes like Windows or Mac OS X. "Casual users" want their audio players, video players and editors, etc. to read and write anything, and the news here is that the complex libraries and codecs are included to be used by any software that needs to call them.

I was quite shocked at this. Itunes was relevant [forced on its users] in its day with its [not your] mp3 players tied to it, and dragged though with the rise [and fall now] of the iphone [hell you needed it to update your phone!?]. On its own its a bloated mess in every way [size, features...it needs to die], and Apple products simply "Didn't Work" if connected to Linux [none too pretty with anything else]. With the rise of Android and OTA updates; Mass Storage Connectivity; Standard Protocols]. I'm currently using Clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/ [cross platfom] as my music player of choice...and a click on the internet button gives me a range of cloud radio; storage; sales in a none intrusive manner. I'm not pushing Clementine its just one of the *many* music players [something itunes should remember it is] that is better in *every* way. itunes need to be burned with fire.

You know there is 'gnote' which is a non-mono version of Tomboy, right?

I did know about gnote, but its only advantage would be not using Mono, in every other way its a disadvantage. Gnote is not standard; lags being tomboy development...and those things are more important to me than keeping Mono dependencies around. Hell I used to to love banshee before they tried to turn it from a music application to a Multimedia(sic) application, I've moved to Clementine since http://www.clementine-player.org/ its wonderful. The reality is Bijiben(Gnome Notes) looks to have none of the disadvantages, and perhaps a few advantages over tomboy [removing Mono is a bonus].

I'm sorry in context of this article itunes is simply an extra security vector on my computer, and at best is bloat. It offers a poor service, and poor value [where are the free upgrades to flac]. On its own without the i*** its simply a poor product, my favorite music player at the moment is clemetine http://www.clementine-player.org/ I'll probably replace it with something else soon.

As for iOS...its simply looking tired.

I've been using Clementine (http://www.clementine-player.org/ for Linux, Mac, Windows) for a few weeks now, since the last article bitching about iTunes was on /. and it's pretty decent and very flexible.

And it uses a lot less RAM than iTunes, even after this iTunes update cut its RAM usage roughly in half... Clementine's still using only half as much.

Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.clementine-player.org/

The nice thing is that it's multi-platform, and it actually looks and works nice on other OSs - it's particularly nice on OS X, for those like me that hate iTunes.

If you liked Amarok 1.4, you might give Clementine a try, which is a fork of Amarok 1.4. There hasn't been a lot of development on it recently, but it works pretty well anyway. The interface is certainly much better than Amarok 2.x's.

I've switched to Clementine. Forked from the Amarok 1.x codebase and is still actively maintained. It rocks.

Clementine will be something you like better.

I do understand all to well what you asking for, and you'd think that it would be a fairly commonly found need, but apparently it's slim to none of anyone creating an all-in-one media manager. I too have a pretty large media collection consisting over about 1.5 TB of video, 80 GB of music, 30 GB of pictures, 28 GB of books, and other misc media. How to keep any sanity with it all has proven to be tasking.

While I'd love to know if you do find a good solution for it all, maybe some of the better solutions I've found will help you out or point you in the right direction. All of the following are open source Linux solutions that are pretty commonly found. I use Gallery to manage all my photos and even my self shot video, which is a pretty powerful and easy to install web based system. Couldn't really ask much more for organizing, managing, and making your collection available from anywhere - but still protected if so desired.

For my movie collection the best thing I found was Griffith, which is far from perfect or ideal, but is still young and they are making great strides with it's development. You can use one of a pretty long list of sources, which automatically grabs the majority of any movie details, downloads the poster and whatnot, but more importantly makes the information cross-reference friendly. So you can search for movies by director, or actor, or key grip if you want. Nice too that it imports and exports, although not in an ideal format.

The finally for music I kind of jump around between Clementine, Banshee, and Rhythmbox. All three are excellent players that handle a wide range of searching and playing ease, as well as recommending similar styles, genre, downloading covers and lyrics, etc. One key thing I absolutely have to have it mapping to my "extra" keys, which all three do. The Erognomic 4000 keyboard by Microsoft is about the only thing I've really liked that came from Microsoft, and I love it - even though way over priced. LOL

Oh if there were only a way to smash these together. Maybe if I find some spare time I'll start on a project doing just that, although "extra" time is tricky to come by these days...months... well last few years. *sigh*

Or you could just use what the people who prefer KDE 3's Amarok came uo with. It's basically Amarok 1, but ported to Qt & KDE 4.

http://www.clementine-player.org/

I've spent a few years waiting for Amarok to get sorted out too... Clementine is coming along very nicely though, so think I have given up waiting....

Add me to the list. It is so heavy and slow, but losing working Shoucast station integration was the last straw for me. Before Amarok I was using Songbird, until that died, then I went to using Exaile under KDE. Excellent player. Clementine is supposed to be Amarok-lite (based on the KDE 3.5 version), but I now use Guayadeque which is snappy and has all the functionality I need.

Phillip.

Clementine was inspired by amarok 1.4 but it uses QT4 instead of QT3. I started using it around 0.3 and was sold then. It is up to 0.6 and it is hands down the best music player out there IMHO.

then you might like Clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/http://www.clementine-player.org/