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Linux Saloon 201 | Tambourine Music Player

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Tambourine Music Player Application Appetizer

On this episode of Linux Saloon, we chatted about this music player application, Tambourine, that is very focused on local only listening and browsing of your music collection. It looks great, works well and has it’s specific use-cases.

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Which best describes your experience with Tambourine?

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  • it lasted 2 mins for me as soon as it could not handle multiple music directories ☹️
  • After using Tambourine for a few days, I found it to be a solid basic music player for someone who keeps their music in a single directory. Personally, it’s not the right fit for me, since I store all my music on a media server on my NAS. That said, I can easily see its appeal for users who keep everything in their home “Music” folder. One small downside I noticed is that because the app has no internet access, all the album art for my ripped albums showed up as blank white squares after moving them to the NAS. It was a bit annoying but not a dealbreaker. Overall, I think Tambourine does a good job filling its intended niche: it’s simple, lightweight, and fast.

Tambourine Music Player

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.mmarco94.tambourine

Other Links

https://amarok.kde.org
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.amarok
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Rhythmbox3

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