Quod Libet has lots of very positive reviews and, by the looks of things, a loyal fan base. From the documentation and screenshots I can see why and I was very keen to use it. My library is just shy of 40k songs and 290 GB and I was looking forward to finding out what QL could do.
However, having installed it and set up my library it has become unusable. Literally every mouse click results in a "Quod Libet (Not Responding)" message. When I say literally, I mean literally. It takes about 90secs to begin responding again but the next mouse click results in another not responding message and more time finger drumming.
I can see the potential and I would love to use QL but based on my experience I cannot recommend it.
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I listen to classical music, and have a lot of complexity in the tagging (composer, genre, multi-disc, artist) and QL handles them with aplomb. It also lets me add my own tags: key, instrumentation, etc... Nice. But then I can build complex queries: "all recently added tracks that are baroque flute in the key of C".
Wow. Don't try that with iTunes. Oh yeah, I've got over 60Gb in FLAC, OGG, MP3 and it plays everything and searches it all.
High Power with a great interface!
Love it.
Because I can edit the meta-data of multiple files at a time, create custom filters and it has a ton of plugins.
Quod Libet has lots of very positive reviews and, by the looks of things, a loyal fan base. From the documentation and screenshots I can see why and I was very keen to use it. My library is just shy of 40k songs and 290 GB and I was looking forward to finding out what QL could do.
However, having installed it and set up my library it has become unusable. Literally every mouse click results in a "Quod Libet (Not Responding)" message. When I say literally, I mean literally. It takes about 90secs to begin responding again but the next mouse click results in another not responding message and more time finger drumming.
I can see the potential and I would love to use QL but based on my experience I cannot recommend it.
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It's the only real Linux alternative for foobar2000
Very cool approach to user freedom, near infinite possibilities for organizing your music collection. Pretty nice design (although a bit sad that it doesn't support Windows Classic themes, defaulting to Adwaita). Many neat perks come in the form of plugins, which are already included. Pleased to see the crossfeed option there.
It rivals foobar2000 in many aspects, and even has its own tag editor! But unfortunately no file converter, at least for now - would really love to see that feature implemented.
I'd been searching for some time for a music player that understood the various complexities of multi-movement musical works (such as so called "classical" music). This piece was the first one I found that supported (through standard plugin that I just had to check on) the ability to shuffle by grouping. I was also pleasantly surprised at how well it handled all the various people tags. Since many alternatives can't even handle composer, that was a welcome change. Note, I have not tried out tagging various soloists along with the conductor and orchestra name, usually I've been making those just a list in the artist field due to limitations of other tools.
The regex functionality for searching, which appears to be available for dynamic (so called "smart") playlists is a definite power feature, needs to be turned on, and not for the faint of heart, but for me, is a lot easier than most alternatives.
Unfortunately, I see no import of library metadata from iTunes (ratings, play/skip counts, playlists). I could export my static playlists from iTunes. Some of the tags, you need to know they exist to add them to the column browser (e.g. comment, which I use for creating dynamic playlists).
The other downside I've found is there is no clean way to temporarily disable, say, holiday music. The only method I've found thus far is to "hide" the songs in the library definition, which feels clumsy.