Notes on Artix music apps

As Quod Libet doesn't seem to satisfy me at the moment, I will be looking for another music app for Artix (or probably get used to Quod Libet).

Here are the things I will need for my next music app, in addition to my previously established needs:

Track shuffling.
Create playlists from the app with folders without having to select one track at a time or use a playlist file.

Some nice to have things for the next music app:

Tag editing ‐ if not available in the music player, a separate application for tag editing is fine. That said, thunar‐media‐tags‐plugin is also available for the job so this is not necessary.

With my requirements out of the way, here are the candidates:

Pragha : Playlist creation allows using folders. Tag editing can be done in‐app. Shuffling doesn't seem to work when tapping the next button. Seems to be abandoned (or completed, if I'm being optimistic) as it was last updated in extra in 29/1/2024 and the last Git commit was in 2022.

lxmusic : Available in galaxy. A GTK2 variant is also available. Playlist creation via folders are possible. Lacks track shuffling and tag editing.
Quod Libet : Dig Deeper's favorite GTK2 music player (at most 2.4.1, which wasn't on Arch extra). Tag editing is available via Ex Falso (which is installed alongside Quod Libet), though playlist creation requires selecting one track at a time and/or using a playlist file.
Exaile : requires python‐bsddb, which is absent in Artix repositories. Does not even work when I tested it, so Exaile fails the hardest.

None for now, unless I am going for EFL, GTK4, or Qt. But then I don't feel like adding entire toolkits just for some applications.