Music Players for Linux
In this section, I will go over several music players used in Linux. I will focus on programs that put emphasis on playing audio files that are stored on your system. These files will contain extensions such as MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, WAV, MIDI, and etc. I will not focus on streaming music players such as Spotify, Pithos, Radio Tray, Google Play Music, and more.
Each music player will have it's own page with a description of its use and features and screenshots of the software in action.
Each music player will have it's own page with a description of its use and features and screenshots of the software in action.
- Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface based on the KDE Platform.
- Audacious is a lightweight audio player available for Linux and Windows.
- Clementine is a free and open-source cross-platform music player inspired by Amarok 1.4.
- DeaDBeeF is an audio player for Linux, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.
- foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for Windows, Mac, Androind and Linux via Snap (Wine).
- Guayadeque is a lightweight and easy-to-use music player that supports smart playlists and huge music collections.
- Lollypop is a lightweight modern music player designed to work excellently on the GNOME desktop environment.
- Museeks is a simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
- Noise Music Player (a.k.a. Music) is the default music or audio player for elementary OS.
- Pragha is a lightweight Music Player for Linux systems.
- Quod Libet is a cross-platform free and open-source audio player, tag editor and library organizer.
- Rhythmbox is a very easy to use music playing and management program which supports a wide range of audio formats.
- Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework.
- Strawberry is a cross-platform music player and music collection organizer and is forked from Clementine.
- Violin is a fast, lightweight, minimalist, and cross-platform desktop music player.