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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[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

cantata is no longer maintained AFAIK, but as mentioned there are other clients such as ario, which on arch/artix it is build on gtk3, not gtk2

[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://github.com/nullobsi/cantata is an active fork, used by the link above.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Cool, it never came back to arch/artix, however I see it on aur. I actually don't use gui for mpd, I use ncmpcpp, but good to know it has quite good gui frontend. ario is good as well, particularly if not much into Qt apps.