Recently I've seen some criticism (and controversy?) regarding the new entry in the GNOME core apps, Decibels.

I've been using Decibels before it became an official GNOME core app, and it's actually pretty neat to listen to audio files "on the fly", such as local MP3 podcasts, recordings, and other audio files that aren't necessarily music (for music I use Amberol and Lollypop).
Yes, I *can* use a music player for this, but I've always preferred to have a dedicated app for this purpose.

But outside of my personal opinions, some say that Decibels is a "replacement" for the default music player GNOME Music (also known as Rhythmbox).
Well, no, Decibels (now GNOME Audio Player) is *not* a replacement for Rhythmbox.

In fact it's an "audio player", not a "music player", although they are similar to each other, an audio player only plays audio tracks, a music player has a playlist system, an equalizer, support for ID3 metadata* and so on.

It's understandable that it may be "too minimal" for some, but don't worry, the beauty of Linux is that there are many apps that maybe have what you are looking for
Personally, it does its job for what it gives, and that's enough for me.

*Decibels has an ID3 support, but only for artist and song name

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