I like to use strawberry.
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Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It's really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.
After testing many of the players mentioned here, I can say Strawberry is the number one. It has all I need.
Seconding this. Came from using foobar on windows and strawberry has hit all the right notes. Great piece of software.
For maximum minimalism and terminal autism Cmus is the answer.
Quod Libet can do all of these things to my knowledge. It is currently my favorite linux music player.
How about Lollypop? It's one of my favorite players, although is not updated very often. There's also Quod Libet and Pragha, both of which are very capable. Or if you like something more aesthetically pleasing, Gapless is a good choice. Many people also like Clementine and its more updated fork, Strawberry, but personally I don't like their UI and UX.
Elisa is a modern music player from the KDE project. It's quite slick but not always the most intuitive - some options are hidden away in menus to keep the main interface slick.
It definitely has Repeat One.
Otherwise Strawberry is probably the best bet. It's not the slickest looking in terms of modern UI design but it's rock solid and still actively maintained. It's basically the continuation of Clementine (which is largely untouched since 2016) which itself was a continuation of Amarok.
I like Strawberry but I do find the UI a bit jarring in the modern era. It's feature rich and stable though.
Elisa would be close to ideal if it didn't assume music always belong to an album
Strawberry is super confusing with playlists. Out of caution, I have learned to save Playlists multiple times to a file and try to close them all before opening/playing new stuff.
Too many times I've experienced selecting something new to play not only replace the currently playing, but replaces the Playlist, and it seems to overwrite it immediately.
Is clementine available in the Pop repos?
Clementine hasn't been updated since 2016. The fork Strawberry is a safer bet; actively maintained.
Here to recommend Sayonara as its the best one on Linux, in my opinion.
The Nullobsi fork of Cantata or many other mpd-backed music players are something I can recommend seems to fit what you're looking for. It supports being able to edit the play queue whilst running a single-track on repeat within it. It does also support fade out and crossfade. The easiest way to obtain it is via its flatpak on Flathub. Cantata can either run an integrated or connect to a system-level mpd server for its backend.
Just a general recommendation for that kind of question:
- Note down the requirements you have
- Go to the software list in the Arch wiki, http://wiki.archlinux.org/
- Check out the list for that application area and see and try which program matches your requirements.
(Guix package manager can be helpful if your distro does not have this native package; it can without any problem run on top of your distro.)
You can even claim you are an Arch user! ;-)