Another one for Audacious, especially with the Winamp themes. :-)

I also use mpv a lot when I need something from the terminal inside Tmux.

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.

music player demon runs in the background and plays music (always remembers its position, and if you reboot while playing music it'll continue playing automatically when the system is up again), and can be controlled by various clients like Cantata, Euphonica or Plattenalbum (they should all do 2.) and many others. It can output network streams, clients can connect over the network (control the music on your PC from your phone), utility demons to feed your play queue with similar or random songs…

Very versatile, though setup is a bit more complicated than with one simple program.

strawberry can do all iirc

Quod Libet can do 1 and 3 for sure, I think it can do #2 but I'm not positive. I don't have a music collection with very many albums that have multiple tracks. You can pick and choose which metadata columns show up for your library and sort by whatever you want, including creating your own but that's outside my expertise. It can do bulk renaming too.

I was using Clementine for awhile, then because of a lack of updates and some other minor issues, I switched to Strawberry which is a fork of Clementine. It added some neat features but lost a few too. After using a dozen or so different players, I found Quod Libet just works like I want it to.

The way I listen to music is to dump all my files into a single folder called "music", then do shuffle, repeat all. I was in the process of moving my files to a new storage and moved the folder around a few times. Just had to update the library with a scan, took like 10 seconds.

I also have it set up to automatically resume playing from where it left off. One of the options is then queue autosave interval, which does the resume from where you left off. It's enabled by default I believe. You can set it to autosave every second if you want but to use less system resources, I stick with the default of 60 and I think it saves on shutdown/restart too. I've never noticed it NOT resume from where I left off.

It has a plugin system to add features but otherwise it starts off very bare bones. You add plugins to basically build your own player the way you want it. That means it can be a bit of work to initially setup. While that sounds like a pain, the amount of time I've spent in Quod Libet's settings is a tiny fraction of the amount of time I spent messing with Clementine and Strawberry's options, as well as other players. It's probably the music player I've seen the GUI for the least in my entire life, as a ratio to how much music I've listened to with it.

Pretty sure Strawberry does everything you are looking for.

re: #1 I kind of had the same issue but with multiple music folders, most of the default music apps only let you use one folder. Strawberry lets you add as many music folders as you like, I've been happy with it.

On Windows I used to use foobar2000 which was great, and in theory I could get it running under Linux, but I'd rather just use something coded for Linux compatibility from the start.

Elisa, from kde

AIMP Linux native version has been released, worth a try

I’ve been happy with Sayonara but don’t know if it can do #2

I use Gapless. it's pretty simple, but i mostly use it because it doesn't look like absolute buns. i think it has what you want.

You can have a look at this list : https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-music-players/

There are many music players, none of them is extremely good. I like Sayonara.

DeaDBeeF can probably do all three.

I'm currently using Strawberry. Before that Deadbeef (was perfectly happy with Deadbeaf, just tried something different). MPD with Cantata was on the cards but not got to it yet.

What about Navidrome as a server and Feishin as the client.

Or my second backup system mod + rmpc (terminal music player with artwork support)

Amarok if you have a really large collection.

Tauon has been great.

mpd + ncmpcpp

I use Lollypop

Qmmp has that option in the settings.

If you like the command line aesthetic... Auditorium.

cmus.

I know it satisfies 1, mostly sure it satisfies 2, and looks like 3 was implemented somewhat recently

https://github.com/cmus/cmus/pull/1325

yep, just tested and resume works.

Rytgmbox does not do your feature number 3, my personal workaround is to, before closing the app, add the current song to the play queue, so it will be picked up next time you start the application.

Someone mentioned Immich recently and it sounded like the cool kids are using it now, so maybe it's worth looking into. I'm just a cavedweller and use command line mplayer, but given all the song metadata, the features you mention are pretty easy to do. Is every song necessarily on an album though?

In addition to the other options here, Tauon is a solid GUI music player.

I like Sayonara

it's not open source (it's free though) and runs on linux through wine, but i like aimp.

air sonic

Swing music player is web based

Harmony music is cross-platform

Personally i like swing, but i keep switching between these two

VLC?????