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  • Looking for a Linux Music Player

    From nenemon@39:902/501 to All on Wed Sep 21 13:01:26 2022
    I installed Linux Mint 20.2 as an on-the-side replacement to the mess that was Windows 10 about a year ago now and haven't yet been able to find a music player application that can replicate the clean experience that iTunes provides. I'm looking for a music player that is rich in features yet not a mess to use and can preferably display album cover art to make finding specific
    music much easier. I have already tried running iTunes on Linux Mint with WINE, Lutris and Play On Linux but have only had a buggy unusable mess so far. As an extra, the ability to sync music to iPods would also be nice to have but is not necessary. If anyone has any recommendations I would be happy to try them out.

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@39:150/200 to nenemon on Wed Sep 21 19:09:05 2022
    Hi nenemon,

    On 2022-09-21 13:01:26, you wrote to All:

    I installed Linux Mint 20.2 as an on-the-side replacement to the mess
    that was Windows 10 about a year ago now and haven't yet been able to
    find a music player application that can replicate the clean
    experience that iTunes provides. I'm looking for a music player that
    is rich in features yet not a mess to use and can preferably display
    album cover art to make finding specific music much easier. I have
    already tried running iTunes on Linux Mint with WINE, Lutris and Play
    On Linux but have only had a buggy unusable mess so far. As an extra,
    the ability to sync music to iPods would also be nice to have but is
    not necessary. If anyone has any recommendations I would be happy to
    try them out.

    Btw1: This network is about the Amiga!
    Btw2: AmigaNet is a real name network.

    But try out "Amarok"... ;)

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From nenemon@39:902/501 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Sep 21 14:16:17 2022
    Thank you for the suggestion, Ill try it out just now. Sorry, i didn't notice it was dedicated to Amiga only, my mistake.

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  • From Rebecca Marie@39:902/505 to nenemon on Wed Sep 21 13:26:00 2022
    nenemon wrote to All <=-

    find a music player application that can replicate the clean experience that iTunes provides. I'm looking for a music player that is rich in features yet not a mess to use and can preferably display album cover
    art to make finding specific

    You liked the Windows version of iTunes? I thought that was just an urban legend...

    Anyway, you probably have three options:

    1) Install FS-UAE, buy AmigaOS 3.1 ROMs from Cloanto, set up a basic
    Workbench 3.1 environment, and install EaglePlayer on it.
    2) Ask your question in one of the Linux subs on FidoNet, fsxNet, DoveNet, LinuxNet, etc
    3) Install Straberry Music Player in Linux Mint

    Good luck!


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