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The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)

submitted 1 month ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@programming.dev

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nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Command line mplayer seems fine to me. I have it aliased to "m" for convenience. Playlists work great (just make a shell script to play the songs you want). Need help getting to sleep? Shell script that sets the volume to barely audible, then plays some long instrumental audios. And so on.