Recently switched to Linux and have been looking for alternatives for Musicbee, which I used for ages in Windows. I guess I could make it work with Wine but thought I'd ask here for suggestions first. Features I'm looking for are not a lot to ask IMO:

Music folder can be anywhere, not only ~/Music
In the list of songs by a given artist, I can sort by album year, but the tracks within each album stay in the correct order
The player remembers where I left off the next time I open it

I'm using Rhythmbox and it's great but unfortunately it doesn't do #3 (if I missed some setting let me know please).

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Best options from the comments were Strawberry and Quod Libet. I think I'll go with Quod Libet. Thanks all for the suggestions.

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[–] Viirax@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've been using Strawberry for my local music for a bit, might not be the most modern looking, but I'd say it's decent. You can set folders to be scanned, and if you double click an artist's folder in the "collection" menu it'll add all their songs to the queue in whatever order you're sorting by. It'll at least remember the last played song, so just pressing play should start that song assuming you didn't clear the queue. Doesn't seem to remember how far into the song you were before closing it if that's what you're after though.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah I like Strawberry too. It's not flashy looking but it does everything I need.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Seconding strawberry 🍓

[–] reboot6675@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Seems promising, thanks! I don't care about song position, just that it remembers which song.