We recommend the best free and open source music players. There are an amazing range of music players to choose from.
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Author: Luke Baker
12 Best Free and Open Source Pixel Art Editors
Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. We recommend the best free and open source pixel art editors.
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Kalorite – lightweight audio player
Kalorite is a small-size Qt6 audio player that aims to be modern and easy-to-use made for the developer’s needs to use on KDE.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients
MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. We recommend our favourite open source graphical MPD clients.
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Euphonica – MPD client with delusions of grandeur
Euphonica is an MPD client with a GTK4 interface. It sports an integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading and more.
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mtoc – visually-rich music player and library browser
mtoc (music table of contents) is billed as a visually-rich music player and library browser. It’s written in C++ and built with Qt, TagLib and GStreamer.
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fooyin v0.9.1 is released – the best open source music player gets better
fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The new release adds some neat features and improvements.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Lossless Audio Codec
Apple Lossless Audio Codec is audio compression technology with lossless compression, a form of compression that preserves all original data.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality free and open source audio editors.
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kew v3.2.0 improves internet radio support and more
kew has added a mini-player mode, a braille visualizer mode, a favorites list for radio stations, and shows bitrate information.
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Turntable scrobbles your music
Turntable is a GUI and CLI program that scrobbles your music. It’s written in Vala.
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Linux Show Player is a cue player designed for stage productions
Linux Show Player, LiSP for short, is a free cue player, primarily intended for sound-playback during stage productions.
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poddl is a cross platform command line podcast downloader
poddl is a command line podcast downloader for batch downloading all, individual, or a range of podcast episodes from an RSS feed.
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tap v0.5.1 – audio player for the terminal
tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. There’s a new release out!
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PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system
PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system that supports multiple users and relies on a central database
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Cardo is a GUI podcast client written in TypeScript
Cardo is a Linux podcast client for desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.
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fum is a TUI-based MPRIS music client
fum is a TUI-based MPRIS music client designed to provide a simple and efficient way to display and control your music.
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kew adds internet radio support
kew is a music player sporting gapless playback, 24-bit/192khz audio, and MPRIS support. It now has internet radio support.
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lowfi – listen to lofi
lowfi is billed as an extremely simple lofi player. Listen to ambient music designed for chilling, sleeping, and working. No subscriptions!
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Decibels – simple audio player
Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files.
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