I tend to go the other way around – I use zoxide in the external terminal to get where I want and then open Dolphin there.
I think it would be awesome if there was a zoxide plugin for Dolphin: just press a single button, type the directory name and hit enter! Or scroll through a list of less matching (less used) ones. In a pretty popup.
I never encountered audacious not able to play anything really.
VLC. It’s, by far, the most crashing app over the years. I really hate that stuff. I use smplayer since…forever really. If you can’t find a setting on that one, it doesn’t exist. Kinda..
Exaile was my go to
Whatever secondary player has to let me navigate to a random folder & not restrict me to the music folder
Clementine/strawberry has a good multi-criteria smartplaylist builder, no one else has
I want to like Amarok, but it just doesn’t do the things I want
I use playlists for flash drives to use in cars or ipod clones
My wish would to be able to set to que order of the files on the cards, there seems to be no way to make a mix “tape” in the order I set.
I can brute force by adding a number as comment & making that the 1st criteria when I burn to external media, numbering a few 1000 by hand?
If I make a playlist with a few 1000 files, the random of the players get stuck on a few songs
On my computer using Clem/Straw I shuffle the playlist a few time & listen in order
My must-have applications and utilities on my computer are:
Kate: advanced KDE text editor, I use it do edit html code and system files.
Gwenview: The KDE image viewer.
GIMP: popen-source painting programm. I use it to draw some wallpapers for my devices (see Share your desktop! - #476 by Hippolyte).
Libreoffice fresh: the latest unstable version of the open-source office suite.
Signal: The well-known open-source private chat client.
Proton VPN: An open-source and privacy-friendly VPN client.
Konsole: my favourite terminal emulator with downloadable colour schemes and well-integrated to KDE Plasma.
power-profiles-daemon: to save the battery of my ProBook.
kio-admin: to open files as admin in dolphin and tweak my system.
VLC: my favourite media player because it supports a wide range of formats and “only works”.
Ktrip: to view details about my trips with national and regional transports.
KDE connect: to transfer files and interact between the devices of my family, my friends and me. On Linux devices, of course but also on Windows computers and on Android phones and tablets.
Kdenlive: FOSS fully-featured video editor. It works better than the only-windows expensive and bloated video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro. Very satisfied of my ProBook 640 G8 wich is able to run it (my old EliteBook from 2014 crashed every time I edited videos longer than 5 seconds ).
KDE partition manager: KDE utility to edit and manage partitions.
KDE iso image writter: KDE utility to flash iso images on USB keys.
Kcharselect: To easily copy-paste some german or french characters that aren’t on my finnish keyboard layout.
Spectacle: fully-featured utility to take screenshots and screencasts.
Beaver Notes: To take notes and create To-do lists.
Ark: KDE utility to compress and cecompress archives
Octopi: to make the managing of packages more easy on my Arch installation.
Ungoogled Chromium: A modified version of Chromium browser with removed built-in telemetry, tracking and Google services and additional flags. I use it because I’m not a fan of giving my datas to unethical american commercial companies like Google… but a big fan of the material design also used in a lot of Android apps and ROMs
Brave: I’m not the biggest fan of this browser and I use it only for Spotify because I don’t want to use the closed-source desktop client with tracking and ads and the support for DRM content is harder to get on Ungoogled Chromium.