KDE Elisa VS Audacious

KDE Elisa Reviews

1. Auntie Spam    

   almost 2 years ago
   Sadly one can not give ZERO stars

   Tried Elisa (v22.04.1) under Windows 10 and three mainstream Linux distros (on an i5 3.4GHz with 16GB RAM) and was shocked how slow and clunky the app was. Admitted, my library contains more than 70,600 titles but having to wait 8:30 minutes each time to open the album view, only to lose all that again when switching to an artist view (artist with ONE album, again 3:10 waiting) is absolutely pathetic. Under Linux the waiting was a little shorter, however the app soon started to confuse artist entries (clicking on an artist in the list sent you to some other artist three or four entries down the list). There is no excuse for such shoddy coding, even much older apps I tested can easily (and quickly) cope with my library without problems. Buggy, klunky software is the main reason I stay away from KDE and Elisa being their default KDE muslib app confirms my point of view, and then some.

   🏁 Competitors: Linux: Sayonara or Lollypop, Windows: MusicBee

Audacious Reviews

KDE Elisa mentions (0)

Audacious mentions (21)

• Recommendations for music players

  I usually just use mpv since it's the simplest and most flexible. You might be looking for something like Audacious though, which is great too. Source: 11 months ago

• PlayOnLinux and Winamp

  Audacious is a more popular media player app that supports Winamp skins and a media library. Source: about 1 year ago

• What's really going on with Amarok?

  This may interest you,and it is Qt,plus can be used with MPD. https://audacious-media-player.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• My Setup. AKG K240 MKII, Sennheiser HD 650 and Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus

  The new version of audacious has a vu meter and its also available to windows Https://audacious-media-player.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to add a music player to my desktop?

  Find a GUI player you like (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#Graphical_13 for a non-exhaustive list; ISTR Audacious being mentioned as a Winamp clone) and add it to your autostart items (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autostarting#On_desktop_environment_startup). Source: over 1 year ago