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Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013?

Posted by timothy on from the see-I-already-have-a-file-hierarchy dept.

First time accepted submitter cs80 writes "I've been looking high and low for a decent, open-source, cross-platform audio player that can import an existing iTunes library and sort my files based on their ID3 tags. Nightingale, with its iTunes-like interface, would have been the obvious answer, but its file organization feature was pulled for being too buggy. What open-source audio player did you migrate to after dumping iTunes?"

2 of 317 comments (clear)

  1. Re:iTunes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is nothing really wrong with iTunes. Unless you're a hopeless open source free software dork who has been influenced by other Slashdorks.

  2. Re:Clementine Player by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Clementine has a few other problems:

    * Its performance is very poor when manually going next/next/next to find a song you want to hear. For a large playlist there's significant lag - do the shuffling too fast and it'll briefly lock up.

    * It doesn't properly support Unicode in its tags. Often the Unicode tags just don't get printed, which sucks.

    I use Winamp and it can do everything and has no weaknesses (which isn't a surprise given the amount of time it's been around). Unfortunately Clementine is not even in the same ballpark, however it is a youngish project and still has a lot of potential. If you're unfortunate enough to be stuck on Linux, it's probably the most featured player available.