My music player choice updated 2025
Absolutely Strawberry music player.
This software was born as a fork of Clementine, made by an indipendent developer, with some collaborators, there’s a github repository often updated strawberry repository
Nowdays it’s only released for Linux because the author decided to make Windows and Mac Os versions payment, in some words you need to donate a bit before he’ll give you the binary download link.
Windows and Mac Os compiled versions are not updated, they are stuck at january 2024 and they won’t recive any future upgrade.
If you are brave enough you can try download the source code (C++ / QT) and compile it directly in Visual Studio.
This is my daily choice music player, and I listen alot of music everyday; it works better then Clementine, I use it often for listen some .pls files (webstreaming source audio), I tried open pls with Clementine and they won’t play on that player.
It offer eventually Spotify integration with an api key.
BONUS: I made a custom Discord rich presence in Python that works very well on Linux, it’s directly integrated with Dbus.
I tried to make a Windows version of this software but it’s not perfect because Dbus is not working on Windows, so I parse player cache files for know which song is currently playing.