What audio player do you use to play your pirated music collection?

Good old foobar is what I use. Sometimes I get weird though and listen with MPC

I use jellyfin it means I can listen from a bunch of devices and not need to duplicate my files which is handy when you have a large varied music collection

Jellyfin is awesome for both music and video libraries.

Strawberry is the way to go for linux users. Also Navidrome for streaming to my mobile

VLC

On Android it's the only one I've found that plays OPUS and organizes by album artist rather than song artist.
- Poweramp on Android for my phone and VLC on desktop

Still at foobar2000 :)

Quality? ✅ Performance? ✅ Usability? ✅ Powerful and Vast Add-ons? ✅ Massive DSP? ✅ Good Looking? ❌ (Easy to use UI, but man it looks Windows 98 as hell!)

Foobar2000 is a Fantastic choice if you do not care about the look of your player but only the quality and ease of use. At some point and time I remember Foobar had a ton of custom themes made by the community, but they all were a pain to install or remove. 😅

(I'm not an audiophile by any means, but for me Aimp and MusicBee did sound good as well, but I preferred Foobar since I had more control over DSP and other stuff...)
Same here. Set it up once and it's all good.

Plexamp on the go, musicbee at home base

Colibri Lossless under macOS, Foobar under Windows

I'm loving Symfonium streaming via Navidrome/Tailscale, Spotify killer.

Kodi for 10ft interface, mpv or mpv+ranger for desktop/laptop/ssh.

Same. Symfonium has the most polish of the subsonic apps I tried. Don't miss Spotify at all.

Are you using the warwickh Kodi plugin? It's been working pretty well for me.

Sticking with Sonixd for desktop for now but watching the development of Feishin (MPV).

Love this thread! Here is my setup (with some questions for the experts!):

For my """HiFi system""" (amp + loudspeakers) I use Moodeaudio in a Raspberry Pi with a HiFiBerry DAC hat, so it is a mpd with modifications reading my FLAC collection from a NAS (an Odroid XU4 with the custom case and a 3TB harddisk drive).
Connected to my amp there is an old Mac Mini Server 2011 which I use to download and "curate" music before it goes to the NAS. In macOS, VLC is my preferred way to listen to music, but sometimes I use Tidal to stream music. I tried Pine Player but it is unstable as hell, at least the version that you can install on High Sierra. Any solutions here?
I have a Navidrome instance running in my NAS and use Substreamer in my daily drive phone with a external DAC (Truthear) and Truthear Zero IEMs. I need help with Android resampling, how can I avoid it?
Also, I use an old iPhone connected to a Headphone Amp that I use as a network streamer. iOS doesn't resample sound :D with Substreamer. The headphone Amp powers an Audio Technica M40x headphones.

winamp ftw

Plexamp on my phone, Plex via browser on my PC since Plexamp for Windows is garbage. Sometimes I still fire up my old iPod classic

vlc

why?

it's just what i am used to and have installed, it plays the sound and that's good enough for me

I found VLC's Android app surprisingly good. It's easy to use folders as playlists and combine playlists if you want. The only issue I've had is I can't figure out how to have VLC auto-add songs I add to folders and how to add thumbnails to playlists
Now I'm curious if there is something else I shoukd be using lol. Vlc works well and I only listen to my ancient collection of music on my phone.

Harmonoid is pretty cool (though the dev is a bit of a dick.) Also Metro on Android.

I used Harmonoid too and I found it cool too though it lacks some features compared to other players. What did the dev do tho?
- Kicked Damon (one of FMHY's mods) after he answered a question in their discord.
  
  (these msgs have since been deleted)

Foobar2000 at home, an old iPod classic on the go

Melodista works well for me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.symfonik.music.player

For android this is definitely the way to go

I use airsonic. So airsonic's webUI when on Desktop and Audinaut(on android) when on the go.

Dsub is still an awesome android app for subsonic. Feel like I need to replace air sonic but haven't found anything that works as well
- Yeah. I seen that air-sonic has not been updated in quite a while. I would be willing to try something new. The only other one I know of is FunkWhale. But that is what I switched from. Airsonic worked a lot better for me. Funkwhale keeps getting updates though.

also musicbee for windows and simple music player for android, I don´t stream pirated music, I use a deezer modded apk

QMMP (Winamp clone) on Linux

Music Folder Player on Android

Musicbee on desktop, Musicolet on Android. The latter is honestly amazing feature-wise, lots of cool ways to browse my library.

Symfonium (Android) and Sonixd (Windows) to stream from my self-hosted Navidrome server. Has worked great for me with my 35k song library.

Winamp my beloved

Strawberry on my PC, Poweramp on my phone. Currently I don't stream music.

mpd/ncmpcpp on desktop. Handles an absolutely massive music collection and very large music queue flawlessly.

Vinyl Music Player on Android. It's not perfect but it gets the job done

I've been using MusicBee for a while on desktop and am pretty happy with it. I just set up Jellyfin, so we'll see how that goes -- so far I'm liking it.

Vinyl (F-Droid)

was using this app for the longest time and really enjoyed it, but it had some issues with the metadata on some of my music, which was a shame.

AIMP mainly on android

Feishin on windows, Symfonium (paid) on android, both using jellyfin for the files

Musicbee for local playback. Used to use plex but I switched to jellyfin and use symfonium on my phone to access it.

I've been quite happy with plexamp
- Plexamp worked pretty well when I tried it, I just prefered to move to something open sourced when I moved my host pc

At this point I literally just use heavily adblocked youtube for music. Newpipe lets me save local playlists on my phone.

Audacious has a very nice neat user interface and just werks on Linux and windows both

I use plexamp. it's great.

MusicBee or Foobar2000

I just use Winamp or Audacious on Linux (sometimes I also use Winamp on Linux too, cuz I have some mp3PRO encoded files in my collection and that thing only has a Winamp plugin, closed source unfortunatelly 🤷).

Most of my library is actually non-pirated (ripped a ton of my own/parents' CDs back when), but I use MusicBee on desktop and Blackplayer Ex on Android. Though syncing my libraries when I do make new acquisitions can be a bit of a hassle. I have a Plex media server on my desktop that has access to the files, so that may be a good solution?

+1 for Musicbee, easily the best performing and looking out of the box, although foobar is also good if you invest some ime configuring it to the way you want.

For Android I prefer Blackplayer EX, I just find it the most pleasant looking.

Musicbee is also my choice - out of the box it's great, and even with minimal add-ons or themes you can really make it your own.

Jellyfish / Finamp

I use Winyl on PC and Aimp on android

Elisa is in the KDE suite of applications, so I use that. I used MusicBee in the past, good stuff

deadbeef, foobar2000

Foobar2000 (not version 2 yet, the old one works fine and I cba to have to troubleshoot anything).

CloudBeats on Android.

All my music (99% flac) is synced to my nextcloud VPS, which I can stream using CloudBeats.

I've been using Foobar on iphone and really like it. May end up getting it on PC as well. Only problem is that if I try to play stuff through my phone to my car via aux the car doesn't recognize any playable media. No issues using it through bluetooth though

BlackPlayer Ex on Android. Worth the price for no ads, but you can, of course, find a pirated APK somewhere.

On Linux, QMMP for casual listening because of its WinAmp skin support and Kodi for a more organized view of my collection.

Strawberry Music Player. Edit: And before of that, the excellent gmusicbrowser.

I originally downloaded potplayer because my VLC had this weird issue where non of the UI would show, only the video stream and I couldn't fix it with reinstalls etc. etc.

I absolutely love it, and I recently been using it for listening to audio as well and it does a tidy job at that too. I use rekordbox for formating and organising my music, potplayer for listening to it now and poweramp on my phone.

Just a bonus - I use syncthing to automatically keep my phone music collection always updated with my latest tracks.

ncmpcpp on Linux as a mpd frontend. I started using it during the "I want to do everything in the terminal" phase of a linux user, and it kinda grew on me.

Clementine is kinda dead but still awesome imo

I stream it everywhere via Plex. Previously I used MusicBee on Windows, AIMP on Android, and Strawberry on Linux.

poweramp on android and foobar on windows.

foobar2000 on my PC, Jellyfin through Finamp on my phone for what is essentially the Plexamp experience for free.

AIMP and Pot Player

mpd and ncmpcpp cause i wanna feel cool lol

What do you do for mobile? Is there a good app to stream from mpd?
- on mobile i use blackplayer, but im not like sold on it. I don't think it makes sense to stream from my mpd instance to my phone cause for me the whole idea is local files for offline listening. but if i were to stream from my PC i would use navidrome/subsonic and not MPD

Rhythmbox, it is a really good gtk music player

i used to use musicbee when I was still on windows, but I haven't found a compatible version for my linux distro. I ended up going with quodlibet instead, it has many of the same features and does a pretty good job of making my brain happy :)

Poweramp and WACUP