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It's not "ultimate" by any stretch, but it's a really good command-line mp3 player, and the one I use the most. It's been a long time since I've researched it, so there may be better ones out now.

[0] https://www.mpg123.de/

* xXx_nataliste420_xXx is now playing In the End by Linkin Park [3:36] [Playing] [played 467 times] [Nu-Metal]

The old Amarok was amazing. I still use Clementine to this day.

I just don't like the cover art manager, everything else is jut right for me.

I used to use Amarok. I switched to Quod Libet because its better for some genres - e.g. classical where I want to browse by composer, not performer.

Surprised media monkey never makes this list. I started using it initially because it worked work with my ipod but I still use it because if the visual UI. Cons are that it only works on Windows and there's a paid version. I've been investigating players over the past year and I've installed most of these but I'm always disappointed in how lacking they are in terms of just giving me a visually pleasing dark mode grid of album covers. It's nitpicky but it's something I absolutely want as a way to browse all my music.

I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/

You could add mine to that list: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon

I'd be curious to try it but I don't understand from the site whether it is mobile only. It claims that there is a utility to sync with desktop but then it doesn't run on desktop?

It's both desktop and mobile. If you're browsing on mobile it will show you screenshots of the mobile app.

The sync app is separate, free app just used for serving files to the mobile app for syncing though.

I'm rather fond of QMMP, because being built with normal Qt5 and a very vanilla stock theme, it integrates nicely into my "You're going to look like Motif come hell or high water" desktop theming philosophy.

I also find that I never got into playlists, so something that can easily be coaxed to just swallow 100Gb of content and let me occasionally search for a specific track is my speed.

I have very fond memories of XionPlayer; https://www.xionplayer.com/

The amount of visual flare that thing managed to produce in the heydays of WinXP was stunning, felt like operating a scifi-movie prop with all of the alphablended animations shooting out of the player window at times.

But none of those whips the llama's ass.

audacious can, with its winamp mode

WACUP can!

Can vouch for Audacious, clean straight-forward UI and neat plugin functionality if needed (along with equaliser functionality which is what originally got me on board). Bit of a heavy feel from QT backend though so I might try out DeaDBeeF..!

Musicbee is king!

getmusicbee.com

museeks seems to be the only one with a nice gui. The rest looks like Win95 or worse.

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