Hi hello I feel like cohost has the right combination of tech-literate and pretentious about music to help me with this one! Basically I'm trying to rebuild my offline music collection and I'm getting a little tired of the stock music players that come with my devices.
Can anyone recommend a program to play music files that meets the maximum amount of these criteria?
• free and open-source (highest priority)
• has a working version on Windows, Linux, and Android
• lets me create playlists (bonus points if I don't have to manually save them as xml files)
• able to sort my library by metadata and storage location interchangeably
• able to edit track metadata (since it's annoying to do that through the OS)
• able to exclude folders from my library (I store sound effects and podcasts in the same top-level folder as my music but I only want to listen to music with this program)
• doesn't use too much RAM (I don't care how much CPU it uses tho)
• able to sync my files across devices (lowest priority since it's so rare for FOSS media managers to be able to do that)
• smoothly integrates both track and album art, both from metadata and saved separately in the same folder
• has skins (think VLC and the XP version of Windows Media Player)
• has a cool and/or fun visualizer
• able to shuffle play my entire library without algorithmically putting my "favorites" first