Thx for the knowledge

As you do with Red Hat 😎 (or not, idk, never used it)

I did a clean wine install and could confirm that OPL Manager indeed does not launch, which is kinda intriguing to me, since it did work with me about 2 years ago, this user also reported it working (in 2016) , maybe something changed along the way and it broke? I’ll try to make it work when I get another chance :P Unless OPL-PC-Tools proves to be good enough to replace it for ya

About HDL Batch Installer, I personally never used it, so I’m not sure on how it works and all, BUT, with some research it seems like HDL Batch is just a frontend for HDL Bump, while Batch is windows only, there seems to be an alternative frontend for Linux, called HDL Dump Helper but I did not test it nor do I got a ps2 right now to do so. Wish you best of luck 😁

Back whe I used OPL, OPL-PC-Tools worked fine. OPL Manager specifically also ran fine under wine for me.

If you find the time you could do some testing under a live media enviroment, I recommend Linux Mint if you haven’t tested it already :)

my brain hurts

My musics are organized by metadata, playlists AND folders. I currently got about 1980+ songs locally, and felt like I needed all of these methods to keep them organized and good looking

I really enjoyed Elisa too! It looks modern and does a great job at showing off metadata 😁

But I still sticked with Rhythmbox because of: 1- it’s GTK based, and I’m currently on Gnome (the reason why when using KDE, I stick with Elisa) 2- I kinda did not understand how managing playlist in Elisa works? Maybe I missed something, but Rhythmbox just seemed more simple and direct to the point with that.

But yeah, I do agree with you that Rhythmbox really lacks in the “showing album covers off” space. But in my personal usage, I don’t tend to be looking at the UI of the music player on the desktop anyway, since I usually just play music on the background while doing other stuff.

On mobile (android) on the other hand, I’m enjoying Gramophone for not only showing larger covers, but also matching it’s own Material You colors to the respective music you’re playing, it’s neat :p

So I can have less windows open and cluttered, I like to keep my desktop minimal… And thx for the tip!

Never heard of it, but looks like a cool project!

I’m happy with just reading lyrics on the browser lol

Thanks for the tip 😁 Where did you get Tauon from? The AUR? There is an official flatpak release, which I presume would be more stable.

Just out of curiosity, what advantages do you think cli apps have for this sort of application? Is the experience snappier?

I personally would like the album cover to be a bit larger

actually, it’s the contrary for me! 😆 I’m currently trying to find a way to make Rhythmbox behave just like that: keep playing even when the UI is closed

is there any alternative that works for you out of the box?

I enjoyed it at first, but it was too simple for my personal use. What it lacked the most for me was a playlist management, I didn’t find any option for that feature

the UI kinda looks like a QT based Rhythmbox. I’ll give it a try later 😀

Canonical deserves most of the critics they get.

Ubuntu users on the other hand don’t deserve even the slight amount of critic they get for just… Using Ubuntu. like, at least they use Linux, we should be encouraging them to keep using it.

Mint is the best distro for the average user who doesnt want to tinker with their OS or doesnt want to waste time fixing issues.

IF Mint doesnt go well with your laptop, I would try out Fedora, which is more up to date with stuff and also very user friendly choose Fedora Workstation if you’re feeling adventurous. choose Fedora KDE if you want a Windows like experience.

It would be too little for potato standards, but I believe in your theory! 🥔🐱