hinto-janai/festival

Comparison to Tauon Music Box

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jansol commented

Tauon Music Box is a rather popular cross-platform modern music player written in (mostly) Python and with just the right amount of eye candy. As such it would be a great candidate for comparison (if you intend to add more players to that at some point).

hinto-janai commented

The comparison only contains music players I've used personally. It might be ingenuine to compare against software that I haven't even used (and don't really know the features, behaviors, performance of).

jansol commented

Fair enough.

I did some quick measurements to get a rough idea to satisfy my curiosity (not fully comparable due to differences in setup):

Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5950x (32 threads)
RAM: 4x32GB DDR4 3200 MHz
HDD: WD Red 3TB something (library is stored here)
NVMe: Samsung SSD 980 Pro
OS: NixOS unstable (Linux 6.3.9 2023-06-21)
Both disks are using btrfs.

Collection:

  • 13838 tracks
  • 1067 albums
  • around 95% FLAC, 5% MP3

Cold import: ~30s to "import", 15min to scan tags
Cached import: ~1s
No errors after one that was fixed last year. (FLAC in an ID3 container imported fine but did not get played correctly)
Launch to fully rendered UI: ~1.7s
CPU use (idle): 0.7% of 1 core every couple of seconds
CPU use (playback): 4% of 1 core

As for features:

  • Version: 7.6.6
  • OS: Windows, Linux (SDL2)
  • Open Source: yes
  • Playlists: yes
  • Sorting: yes, effectively instant
  • Global Search (all tags, shows list of matches): accurate, ~1s
  • Quick Find (all tags, jumps to first match): accurate, instant
  • ReplayGain: yes
  • Gapless playback: yes
  • Internet (radio) streams: yes

Downsides:

  • UI occasionally gets in very confused states
  • HiDPI is supported but at least on my setup it often gets the scale wrong until I whisk the window to the secondary monitor.
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