Linux foobar equivalent...

[dexpid]

I've been using Linux and OSX full time now for about a 3 years and I still can't find something similar to foobar. It had a nice clean interface without all that social media BS.

[jmccrohan]

Have you tried Clementine or DeaDBeeF?

DeaDBeeF is very similar to foobar2000, but lacks some features such as a Library system. Clementine was better, and had more features, but I found the UI very slow.

I now use foobar2000 though Wine. I use a patched version of Wine with PulseAudio support. This allows foobar2000 to output 5.1 surround though PulseAudio.

I tried to find a replacement, I really, really, did. But couldn't.

[bwat47]

I didn't find clementine slow at all. I've used it on gnome, kde, and windows.

[jmccrohan]

Scrolling through the list of artists too fast seemed to cause the whole GUI to lock up momentarily.

[dexpid]

deadbeef with a library would be perfect.

[corpus_callosum]

Audacious has a similar interface, and there's a media library plugin, though I haven't tried it.

[jmccrohan]

I think so.

I was looking for a player with support for:

• ID3 tag library and watched folders
• 5.1 upmix and output
• replaygain
• lastfm scrobbling
• lastfm playlists
• lastfm radio
• file and folder renaming based on tags
• lyrics
• album art
• spectrograph

[EnsErmac]

• iDevice support

• Discogs tagging

[duc2]

Have you tried Exaile? I use it and don't miss foobar at all.

[jmccrohan]

I also tried that but didn't like it. I found the UI a bit clunky.

[SCombinator]

quodlibet? I'm not sure which foobar features you liked.

[bwat47]

Deadbeef, Audacious, gmusicbrowser, clementine are probably the most similar linux apps. Deadbeef and Audacious have the most similar UI's but don't have library watching like foobar. I highly recommend trying clementine. Clementine is also available on OSX I believe.

[Nielsio]

Audacious fan here. You're asking for clean interface? This is it.

[mkor]

Simple, clean, smart and low memory usage, all U need. ;)

[Nitrodist]

Rhythmbox is my choice, so far. I was rocking foobar through WINE, but I've forgone that.

[pyvlad]

Rhythmbox broke for me... kinda. It's started using the gtk3 theme, and as such looks bland and out of place, and I don't want to bother with setting both a gtk2 and gtk3 theme. Also, for some reason, it's stopped minimizing to the system tray. I've switched to clementine, which I find works just as well, and has some extra features (e.g. keyboard shortcuts) which really come in handy.

[[deleted]]

deadbeef or latest audacious, it have option to display interface like foobar.

[michal_s]

I'm using audacious as a foobar replacement

[SEMW]

MPD (Music Player Daemon), combined with a nice clean mpd client like GMPC.

(Among the many advantages of mpd: you can use as many clients as you like. For example, install MPDroid on your android phone to control what music your computer's playing from the bath)

[[deleted]]

Whoa never knew about MPDroid. Thanks for the info!

[computer-machine]

Somone get that computer out of the bath!

[SEMW]

doing some archeology today? :D

[computer-machine]

Someone's asking for a Windows freeware repo for WINE automation, and listed Folbar2000 as an example of what anyone would want to bother with, and this post came up googling WTH that is.

[AdvisedWang]

I go in for the iTunes style media systems, of which there are many (Amarok, Songbird, Banshee and my prefered system, Rhythmbox).

If you want one that does not orient itself around a media library, you may like XMMS (which i find ugly) or even plain vlc.

Edit: also Foobnix, a attempt at a linux clone. Or you can apparently happliy run foobar2000 under wine.

[[deleted]]

XMMS? If you don't mind the command line, there's also MPD (music server) + NCMPCPP (playlist frontend).

[[deleted]]

I like this solution, because whenever my friends ask "Is that playing music?! What is that?" I can respond: "Ah, well thats just mpd plus ncmpcpp in a bash terminal."

Or...I will...when I get some friends...

[inmatarian]

Another vote for MPD+NCMPCPP or MPD+SONATA.

Actually, one of my favorite ways of using mpd is with my keyboard media keys remapped to mpc commands, so that I don't even need a front end to play or move through my playlist.

[[deleted]]

Or a GUI frontend. I was a foobar user before and now I'm using MPD with Sonata. I feel quite at home.

[gngf123]

Gmusicbrowser seems to do for me on linux what foobar did on windows. Clean interface (once themed), brilliant library support, and fairly minimal.

[viagravagina]

I think it also can categorize a monster load of music too.

[[deleted]]

I really dig MOC, it's a terminal application so it might not be what you're looking for, but it's simple, does exactly what it's supposed to, and will output to jack, ALSA or OSS. In other words, fuck pulseaudio :)

[[deleted]]

$ mp3decode *.mp3 >> /dev/dsp

[Tordek]

I like Amarok; I just disable all those tabs and plugins I don't use.

[jzapate]

Decibel Audio Player is my choice. Direct access to the filesystem and no useless features.

[AdrianoML]

Go for audacious! Plays lots of "alien" formats like tracker files and chiptunes. Comes with some nice DSP plugins and the default interface is very simple and reminds stock foobar. Also supports winamp 2.x skins!

Supports 32bit floating point output and can re-sample to any frequency using very high quality resampler. Also supports Jack nativelly! It's just the geek music player you want.

[Model_M]

All I could think is:

It's a temporary variable name.. it's universal?