On a quest for my utopian music player - specific sorting options & metadata

[camarillo-brillo]

Easytag - it's in the repositories. It's a useful metadata editor. Here's a copy-paste of the easytag package description:

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the tags of
different audio files, using a GTK+ interface.

Currently EasyTAG supports the following:
 - View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis
   tag), Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex and Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag),
   MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey's Audio files
   (APE tag);
 - Auto tagging: parse file and directory names using masks to automatically
   fill in tag fields;
 - Cover art support for all formats;
 - Rename files from the tag fields (using masks) or by loading a text file;
 - Process selected files of the selected directory;
 - Ability to browse subdirectories;
 - Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving, etc;
 - Can set a field (artist, title, ...) on all other selected files;
 - Read file header information (bitrate, time, ...) and display it;
 - Undo and redo last changes;
 - Ability to process tag fields and file names (convert letters into
   uppercase, lowercase, etc);
 - Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program;
 - CDDB support (from http protocol);
 - A tree based browser;
 - A list to select files;
 - A playlist generator window;
 - A file searching window;
 - Simple and explicit interface.

(I've used code tags to preserve the simple formatting of the text.)

Thank you so much! I will give this a shot.

[camarillo-brillo]

Yet another update (that no one was waiting for):

I did try EasyTag, In the end, it didn't allow me to update the information I wanted to.
Personally, I didn't find it to be too user friendly, either.
The auto-tagging was, for me, a pain in the neck.


Unrelated: still trying to figure out how to view album art in Rhythmbox.

Any suggestions?

[camarillo-brillo]

Been getting the hang of Ubuntu, and, I have to say, it really is intuitive when you get the hang of it.
Very happy that I made the switch.

But, Rhythmbox is the weak link. Honestly, not pleased with the interface.

So, I'm on the prowl again for a user-friendly music player.

I apologize if this is blasphemy, but is there anything out there that resembles iTunes more?