Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thank you for the recommendation, Actionless.
I did try Clementine. It looked fantastic at first but I could not find a way to make it pass my various music file bit depths and bit rates unchanged to my digital - analog converter. Therefore I gave it a "not rated". This link https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/5344 suggested to me that the developers did not consider this functionality a priority.
Thanks for the comments and detective work, Frans.
Unfortunate about that mis-direction on the web site. In my case I was able to install from the PPA on launchpad but that's certainly not an option for everyone.
I appreciate that my preferences are, after all, my preferences! Others may not care about things like bit rate and bit depth that are important to me, or they may have a different way they like to organize or consume their music, or they may spend more time with music and video content. People who have large classical music libraries are often frustrated by the problems introduced by focusing on "the artist" rather than "the composer" and "the performer". One size certainly doesn't fit all.
Even if you prefer DeaDBeeF, I hope you enjoy your eventual experience with Guayadeque.