Which music player?

[MrR]

As the title suggests, which music player do you use to:

1. Manage your library (folder/file naming, cover art, artist/year/genre sorting, etc.)
2. Manage playlists
3. Stream/play music

I'm primarily looking for something on the Windows platform, but Linux would suffice as well.
Is there something similar to Kodi/Plex?

 

[KleinBoontjie]

musicbee

 

[oldhat]

Everyone seems to have their own favourite, but Amarok is quite good - https://amarok.kde.org/en/features

 

[Bryn]

The short answer is that there is nothing especially good out there. I've tried every player I've come across and not been impressed by any of them.

Fortunately the age of streaming appeared and absolved me of the need to care about downloading music and managing it manually. Spotify has the best user interface, but apart from Apple Music they all have decent interfaces.

 

[backstreetboy]

musicbee

Great app.

As the title suggests, which music player do you use to:

1. Manage your library (folder/file naming, cover art, artist/year/genre sorting, etc.)
2. Manage playlists
3. Stream/play music

I'm primarily looking for something on the Windows platform, but Linux would suffice as well.
Is there something similar to Kodi/Plex?

Why don't you use Plex? If you got a Plex pass you even get Gracenote aswell. The only thing is it doesn't save your tags and stuff but everything within Plex will be fixed. You can stream/play everything around the world.

The best is streaming music though. It just works. Upload it to Google Play Music and use their tag suggestions (Gracenote).

 

[Arzy]

Years of collecting music has left me with trove of unidentified tracks in 1000s of folders.

What I did was to use a combination of musicbrainz Picard and mp3tag.

Mp3tag was just to try and identify the songs from filename, folder and the little tag information there was.

After which I used Picard to identify the rest based on the actual music similar to Shazam, sound hound etc. and to sort and catalogue.

Music is now sorted alphabetically, by artist, year of release and album.

Next step is to feed it all back into plex and use grace note to do the playlists.

Or just use slacker for streaming.

 

[Hemps]

Time spent organizing my music was well spent.

Used Picard to fill in as much info as possible, then Tuneup OSX
Library is almost there, manually filling in the year and genre according to iTunes Store.

At the moment applescript running filling in the lyrics to each song.

 

[CheddarByte]

I've been using Foobar2000 for many years now, you can download a lot of different plugins to do automatic track naming, lyric lookups, etc.

The UI is as customize-able as you want it to be.