I just checked and VLC has a setting to pause at the end of each track (Preferences -> Interface -> Pause on last frame of video) and when set it does exactly that.  You start the next track by just clicking the next track button and away it goes till it hits the end of that track.  I don't see any fancy internal play list handing stuff, but you can create and save play lists and when you load a new play list it's appended to the current play list.
The interface can also to customized/dumbed down for what you need.  I'm not sure if it will fill your needs, but it seems to check a lot of the boxes you wanted checked.

Brian Cluff

On 03/03/2018 05:58 PM, Victor Odhner wrote:

I’m using Clementine to keep playlists, playing songs one at a time.

(I have migrated from my Mac Mini because it’s vintage 2009, out of support. I looked for a newer Mac Mini but the newest model is five years old. I went to Linux because I don’t trust Apple or Microsoft not to jerk us around, and I want to have a pretty stable 10-year solution. Of course it was cheaper too, but that wasn’t the main issue.

What I want: When running an event, we step through all of the songs in a single playlist. Songs are played in order, stopping after each one.

What I *don’t* need in a music player is what seem to be the most popular features:

  Ability to play a whole playlist as a unit, or at random;

  Access to download from music sources; and,

  Flashy graphics, or album and performer information.

Clementine is very popular and has behaved consistently for me. It lacks *any* real documentation except lots of discussions, mostly about features that aren’t important to me. There’s one “full discussion” that should be part of the installation but I don’t see it. I’ll keep digging through these conversations.

Does anyone know of a player that is (a) very stable [like Clementine], and (b) documented ?

I tried Rhythmbox, but it kept freezing on me. Apparently that’s a known problem.

Rhythmbox apparently has no way to stop after a song if other songs are inline, so that was another deal-breaker.

But I can thank Rhythmbox for leading me to an iTunes playlist converter. No other music players seem ready to import playlist data. Rhythmbox imported it initially but I had to bail due to freezes. But I still have that conversion file, and was able to produce a nice text file that we can search for history. (Newer versions of iTunes do not produce XML conversion data, but mine was a little older so the file was there.)

Current problems I’m working with Clementine are:

It says X-ing a tab for a saved playlist will delete the playlist because it’s not a “Favorite,” but doesn’t tell us how to make it a favorite. The red heart at the bottom doesn’t do it. These are saved files. Our first attempt saved a playlist that we can hide without deleting, even though I see no indicator that it is a “favorite,” but the next two are “not a favorite”. I’ll continue to read all discussions I can find.

We can only mark one song at a time to stop at the end. Once it stops after a song, that flag is removed. So their whole concept of a playlist is start it and it plays through. I’d like to mark a whole playlist to stop at the end of a song. This problem is liveable.

Thanks,

Victor

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