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The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)
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nice little blogpost where someone reviews music players

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Agreed. It is my player of choice, though being it is pure Python, it uses a lot of resources for a music player. If I was tight on ram or using a slower CPU, I'd probably go with something leaner.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    What a strange take. When I first switched to Linux in ~2009 I tried a ton of other players. Weirdly, Quod Libet was the only performant option back then. Amarok, Rhythmbox, Banshee, Clementine, etc all chugged to load my library with their UIs freezing for upwards of half an hour before I had something usable. Quod Libet just worked.

    Right now it's using 598MB with a music library of ~31K songs.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Mine is running at 1.2GB of ram, but I have... a substantial library

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I did cut back significantly since that initial switch. At one point, I had 1TB of music. Right now it's sitting at ~210MB of mp3s. Quod Libet uses less RAM than Firefox, Thunderbird, or RSSHub, but it is sitting at 4th place on my system.

    I don't think there's a way to scale music libraries to these obscene sizes without impacting RAM. Unless you manage it strictly with a file manager and open album folders individually with a lightweight player used only for playback.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I agree that a large library will always heavily increase the ram usage, but Quod Libet is just less efficient in this regard than some others. I still use it as I like it best and it has done the best at filling the niche that foobar2000 did for me in Windows (minus the insane UI customization ability). Being in Python also makes it super easy to extend. It isn't even close to 4th on my system in memory consumption, but my PC does triple duty as it is my dev workstation, media server, and personal PC. I'm actually shocked that RSSHub uses so much! Is that also a case of a large "library" of sorts?

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