What is the best music player that lets you see your collection by album covers?
There are some really nice music players out there but most of them work in this kind of tree way where they show you a small image of the album, and below all of the songs, or worst, directly show you all of the songs. I generally browse by looking at album covers and there I decide what to listen, so being able to look at the covers is something I really need. So far I've been using Elisa, which is the one who works the best for me, but then it got bugged so I switched to Lollypop, but I don't like the GUI as much since it is a bit messy.
Basically, something more like this:
Instead of something like this:
I've tried Resonance and I really like it, but it seems really alpha and with not much active development for being a relatively new project.
Dopamine. The best player after some years of searching.
Hey, honestly, yeah, it has all of this and it looks good. Sadly it is Electron, which sucks since there's a Windows version that uses C+. I think I'm still going to use this since it seems the best option.
Agreed. I'm using the native Windows version, written in C#. The developer stopped updating it because he switched to a cross-platform version. I take his point, as not everyone has experience with the technologies that are available on all systems. Electron is the solution. However, even the older version has all the features I need and an awesome UI/UX!
I would recommend Sayonara Player for Linux. It's not as awesome as Dopamine, but I still love it. I couldn't find anything better for Linux!
Sublime Music is my favorite.
The photo you’re referencing as something you want IS Lollypop. Do a little bit more digging into the preferences, you can get it to a pretty nice state. Try right clicking the sidebar too and clicking the three dots at the bottom.
Yes, I know it is Lollypop and I already removed some stuff from the bar on the left clicking on tje three dots. My main issue is some clunkiness in other parts. Thanks though!
Ahh I see sorry for the misunderstanding.
You could use foobar2000 with "Album Art Grid View"
Edit: Ah, freeware (BSD license) but not open source.
I have settled with Navidrome. It is not a native app but is quite fast and responsive and I can combine it with Ultrasonic to stream my music from anywhere to my phone. And you browse your collection by album covers which you mentioned as your preference.