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fooyin

fooyin v0.11 released with internet radio browsing and much more

June 23, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin v0.11.0 adds internet radio browsing, spectrum visualisations, playlist improvements, layout refinements, and better playback handling.

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Music

Ratic – offline music player

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ratic is an offline music player for Linux. It’s designed for playing local music collections rather than relying on streaming services.

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Music

Soul Player – local-first music player built for privacy

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Soul Player is a modern desktop music player focused on local-first playback and user privacy.

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Musical instruments

mplay – command-line music player inspired by cplay

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.

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Music player

hrmp – command line music player for Linux

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, TUI

hrmp is a command line music player for Linux (ALSA) based systems. hrmp focuses on high-resolution loss-less files (44.1kHz+/16bit+).

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Astra is billed as an audiophile music player

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Astra is a music player designed for playing local music files, whether your collection consists of FLAC, MP3, or other common audio formats.

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Video Editing

EasyPlayer – simple video and audio player

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

EasyPlayer is a lightweight multimedia player for Linux. It originated as a small spin-off component of the VideoCut project

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Music Player

CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

CLIAMP is billed as a retro-inspired terminal music player influenced by the classic Winamp 2.x era. It’s really cool!

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musical notes

NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.

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Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

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phiola – audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

phiola is billed as a fast audio player, recorder, converter and streaming server. It’s written in C.

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Music

Musicat – desktop music player

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.

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Music image

mpvc – mpc-like CLI tool for mpv

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpvc is a music player in POSIX-sh interfacing mpv from the shell and extras/goodies.

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Music Festival

tap v0.5.1 – audio player for the terminal

April 16, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

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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Audio Analyzers

Decibels – simple audio player

February 17, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files.

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Dopamine – Electron-based music player

January 3, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dopamine is an open source music player that uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies.

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Music Tools

CMus – small, fast and powerful console music player

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

C* Music Player (CMus) is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player. It has some interesting features.

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Cozy

Cozy – modern audio book player

September 10, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Cozy is a free and open source modern audio book player written in Python. Here’s our review of this software.

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theBeat

theBeat – audio player

January 6, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

theBeat is an audio player that’s based on Phonon, the multimedia API provided by KDE.

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