What do you mean when you say "like iTunes?" Although I know some of
what it is supposed to be able to do, I never used it, so I'm not sure
what functionality you need. Are you trying to download music, to
organize it or to play it? The best place to buy downloadable music now
is probably Amazon, as unless I'm missing a site where I can buy flac or
wav files from my favorite artists, Amazon has the best selection of mp3
files available for purchase. As for organizing music, I have seen many
library style databases integrated into all kinds of player software
that comes and goes, but nothing beats the good old filesystem. Files
are usually already named according to either Artist - Title, Track# -
Artist - Title or Track# - title, and those files are either stored
inside the main music folder or in a folder named as Artist - Album, or
at least this is what works best for me. Specifically, if I have a full
album, I store the songs in Artist - Album/Track# - Title format. If I
don't have a full album, say I have just 3 songs by an artist, most of
the time from different albums, I just store them as Artist - Title in
my Music folder, which incidentally is added to my home folder
automatically by xdg-dirs I believe it's called, which is a tool
integrated into most desktops that just kinda sets up the home folder
with some reasonably logical locations for things. Many music players
exist, but I tend to look for mpris-compatible players, as I have set up
shortcut keys that call playerctl to perform various functions. Some of
the best music players include Audacious, which used to have its own
hotkey shortcut functionality but seems to lack the feature in a screen
reader accessible way now, Clementine, which does have shortcut key
functionality and can minimize to the notification tray, Strawberry,
which is a fork of Clementine, but has some additional preference
options, Deadbeef, which is somewhat like Audacious in its
functionality, and then there's good old vlc, which has its issues
playing files gaplessly, but plays audio and video files in many
formats, and mpv, which plays even more audio and video files and can
even play them straight off Youtube and other websites. If you're
specifically looking for library database and player functionality in a
single package, Clementine, Strawberry and Rhythmbox can all do this,
although I don't use that specific functionality, so I couldn't tell you
how well it works. Many of the players I mention here will also allow
you to fix their tags if they're not correct for some reason, or write
them if they don't already exist as well. If there is some other
functionality you needed that I'm not aware of, feel free to let me
know. Hope this helps.
~Kyle
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