Recently purchased through www.osdisc.com the Debian 10 Buster software repositories that I use through Synaptic Package Manager.
In the past I have used Banshee and Amarok for playing my music collection, spent many months converting and tagging tapes, LPs, and CDs to MP3 and WAV files.
I personally like Banshee and Amarok due to the way the data base organizes music collections especially for recordings that are compilations of various recording artists.
Debian 10 no longer supports these two music players. Clementine is one I like and use frequently yet does not have the same type of data base. Compilation recordings with various artists I have added to my music library under a directory/folder entitled Various Artists are not sorted into the Artist's name using Clementine . With Amarok these compilation recordings get separated and placed into the appropriate Local Collection under the correct recording artist's name, since the tagging includes that information under Album Artist and the Artist field. Banshee works well with it's data base sorting compilation recordings in the same way. Clementine on the other hand places my compilation recordings under the library listing category of Various Artists instead of listing each individual track on the compilation under the appropriate recording artist name. There may be a way of re-tagging every recording to get this working in a similar manner yet doing that will change how Banshee and Amarok list recordings, therefore convenience is lost with these opposing forces.
The way I do things is probably obsolete now as cloud access to so many recordings and streaming have replaced my old hack way of doing things. As a result I am staying with Debian 9 on my computer separately on a different partition, Amarok and Banshee are available on Debian 9. Clementine, available on Debian 10, is one of my favorites for other reasons such as ability to customize background with your own images and change colors for background. When using Clementine to set up a playlist of various recording artists it becomes a bit awkward having to run through the various artists category listing looking for one individual artist's recording on a specific compilation that does not appear under the artist's name of the library with all the other LP's, Cassettes, or CDs of that recording artist. Banshee and Amarok worked perfectly for this purpose categorizing the various recording artists on compilations under the appropriate recording artists name. Hopefully Amarok and Banshee will make a comeback on future versions of Debian.
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