

AudioQuest DragonFly at usb-0000:00:14.0-1, full speed : USB Audio To get VLC to pass the music through to ALSA unchanged:ĪudioQuest inc. In my experience, changes to the audio pipeline require a restart, which was not a big deal once I was aware of it. Should present good-to-great overall organization, layout, and performance.Īs in previous testing, I'm going to give five marks for perfect performance in the first criteria, and one mark each for perfect performance in criteria 2-6.įor this testing, I used my AudioQuest DragonFly and two albums that can be purchased from Linux-friendly download sites: Linn Records' recording of Mozart's Requiem, at 96kHz/24 bit, and Edameme's album Ochre at 44.1kHz/16 bit.Should show the signal level and effective bit rate as the music plays.Should provide a simple approach to cover art-use the embedded cover art, fall back to cover.jpg (or.Should not force the user to always interact through playlists.Should have a good "smart playlist" feature.

Must be configurable to pass the music through unchanged to ALSA.Up for consideration in this installment are VLC, Clementine, QMMP, and Amarok. Kind readers offered quite a few other interesting suggestions. In August 2016, I wrote about about why I like the Guayadeque music player, and then I used the six characteristics that seemed most important to me to evaluate other music players: Quod Libet, Gmusicbrowser, DeaDBeeF, Audacious, and Rhythmbox.

