I’m quite fond of this music player, but development has since ceased and I’ve been looking around for an active fork; does anyone happen to know of one?
For future people searching this, these were the two repositories that we found:
- https://github.com/nrndda/cantata
- https://github.com/fenuks/cantata (I saw someone in an AUR comment say that this person was a big contributor to the original project)
These two appear to be the most active and have some similar commits:
Thanks. 👍
Cantata is a welcome relief from the trend of dumbing down desktop apps to the most simplistic and least useful form possible.
To anyone hesitant to try it because it’s an mpd client rather than a stand-alone player, know that it manages mpd behind the scenes, and the integration is nearly seamless.
Too bad the author moved on. I hope someone with the time to do so will take on the job of maintaining it.
Very true. Everything else I’ve tried is either lacking features, outdated and/or unmaintained, or uses GTK (shudders). Or the UI is just annoying for some random reason. Cantata has been about as close to perfect as I could hope for.
I know you are not searching for an alternative to cantata, but I really really like Clementine (and its fork Strawberry) and have been using it for years. Maybe worth a try but you probably already know it, right?
I have used Strawberry recently and it’s fine, but it’s 2nd place. If I had to switch to something else, it would be my first choice, but I’d rather not if it can be helped.
