Why bother with various media players when there is superior vlc?

[CaffeineAddict]

It would appear radio tunes have been offering free for in excess of 7 years, and have only just started to introduce a charge.

Here is one site for you, it let's you listen to radio stations all around the globe:

Radio Garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

radio.garden

Last time I used it, it worked fine but now it shows "stations unreachable" error which ever I try, could be my system IDK.

edit:
Had to unblock some domains in noscript, it's working fine!

 

[Gloster]

vlc for live-streaming :
Download the respective m3u-file of your choice : https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv?tab=readme-ov-file#playlists
And open (or-doubleclick) with vlc, you will get TV over IP.
vlc for download respective video files of a DLNA server in your home network : refer to local netwotk-> universal plug+play.
Unfortunately I can not play av01/avc1 videos with vlc, black-screen, the audio will be played, vlc does recognize the respective codecs, I wonder why. All other media players can do (mpv, Celluloid).
But it is not very important for me, mainly I look videos via DLNA on my TV.

 

[AndrewP]

I personally do not like VLC for how it looks and works. For listening to local music or web radio I prefer audio players that are designed to listen to music or radio.

 

[909mjolnir]

i prefer audacious for jukebox style searching and listening, and MPV for videos because it looks better to my eyes and is easier to navigate for me. i especially like how the controls are hidden by default. MPV plays audio files too, so I use that for quick double-clicks sometimes.

i do have VLC installed for special cases.

 

[Tritone]

VLC is the only player that plays correctly files from my old camcorder. I was surprised that MPV failed to open them correctly. They were all black and white with colour stripes.

 

[spacebanana]

I've tested various music players mostly and one video player (dragon player)
Notably those here because I was looking for KDE based ones: https://apps.kde.org/categories/multimedia/

Well, they all either suck or lack something.
For instance Juk won't play *.waw files, amarok is dead, Elisa's UI is bad etc.

I was in denial of vlc for years but now I've installed it and figured out it's very simple yet powerful player that handles all kind of files, both audio and video, so I can play anything I want with it.

I use MPV for a few reasons:

• Very CLI-friendly and lets you do a lot with simple scripts or dotfiles
• Very lightweight and minimalist, it's more performant than VLC on heavy-encoded videos such as high resolution H.265 videos
• VLC has some weird behavior with audio pitch slightly changing during playback
• IIRC MPV uses FFmpeg for its decoding backend and so format support is extremely wide, just like VLC

 

[Fanboi]

MPV all the way. Sockets work nicely with MPV so it doubles as an audio player (add, skip, pause, etc. can be done via a script with some keybinds). I like the minimal UI when watching video, too. It's more configurable than most people realise. But most of all, just plain somple. I find VLC a tad cumbersome, but likely my laziness.