Re: Something to replace iTunes (from windows)?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2025, Benny Siegert wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jul 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for replacing iTunes's library and
> > pplaylist management features?  Yeah, I could manually create playlists
> > on NetBSD, but the iTunes interface is just soooo intuitive and 
> > easy-to-use.
>
> I use Rhythmbox for this purpose. Its interface is very similar to how iTunes 
> used to be.

Yup this is good.  Not perfect (some dbus errors) but it does the job.

Thanks!

> Another graphical music player with a similar approach is audio/strawberry, a 
> fork of Clementine.
>
> As for library management in general (renaming, tagging, etc.), the gold 
> standard is py-beets.

Not sure if I need this.  The import process is too interactive
and took a long time. ended up with lots of duplicates and near-
duplicates.  looks like a long cleanup taskk ahead.  :)

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