Check out Navidrome (server) and Feishin (client). It remembers how many times you have played things and you can also rate the tracks or favorite them then later just play favorites or let it auto DJ. Supports playlists too. Between them they find cover art so you can pick by album cover rather than rummaging about for file names in weirdly named folders. They also find the lyrics and display to help you singalong. VLC is great though for consuming media in odd formats - it will play anything.
Comment on Discussion Thread 🙂 Thursday 16 July 2026
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Listening to music by opening VLC, going “Add Directory”, and choosing a bunch of albums to queue up. There might be better ways but this is what I’m used to and nothing beats it.
mertn22@aussie.zone 1 week ago
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I’ll look into it. VLC is very straighforward and it’s more force of habit. I want to go back to listening to the actual music files I have so anything that makes that easier is appreciated.
mertn22@aussie.zone 1 week ago
They support .ogg and .flac files too. None of this comressed.mp3 stuff.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
vlc is the best , luv it still , I used it to play very old dvds and cds
and I have sent the guy payment!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
The classic adage that “If VLC can’t open it, you’re screwed” still holds true. I haven’t sent them any money but I wonder if they have a marketing team I could become part of, I’d love to help get the word out more
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I used to use VLC to make my minidiscs
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
It can do it all. I was even using it to convert videos recently when I was having compatibility issues with video editors. It wasn’t perfectly consistent though