10 great music players for Linux

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Listen to your favorite tracks, create playlists and manage your music collection however you want.

1. Rhythmbox

This is the standard player on Ubuntu, but can be installed on any other distribution. It features a simple and pleasant interface, clearly influenced by iTunes. Can play not only music, but also Internet radio with podcasts, as well as tracks from Last.fm, Soundcloud and other services. If necessary, Rhythmbox can be extended with add-ons.

2. Audacious

This player has a significant number of features and looks nice, but at the same time is very unpretentious to system resources. Therefore, it can be recommended to owners of low-power computers.

It has everything for organizing your music collection, including an equalizer, a tool for finding duplicate tracks and a simple tag editor. Audacious's interface can be customized using plugins.

3. Clementine

Clementine stands out among other music players for its abundance of functions. It can not only play music, but also organize tracks in the library, automatically fill in tags, download album covers, sync your audio recordings with portable players, play Internet radio, podcasts and files from many music services.

All in all, this is a versatile harvester for music lovers. However, for the inexperienced user, Clementine will seem overwhelmed by possibilities.

4. Strawberry

The previous player is great, but it hasn't been updated for a long time. Fortunately, it has a fork called Strawberry. The program completely copies Clementine, but offers several minor additional fixes and improvements.

Strawberry is great for managing large music libraries as it has a built-in converter and tool for bulk renaming, tag editing, and folder organizing. Equalizer, cover and lyrics downloader and smart playlist manager are also available.

5. DeaDBeeF

If you are a music lover, then you are probably familiar with the foobar2000 player for Windows, which is incredibly flexible in its settings. DeaDBeeF was clearly created to imitate this program. He looks simple and modest, but this is more than compensated for by the possibilities.

There is a fancy tag editor, and a decent number of extensions, and various options for sorting files, and even support for a scripting language for formatting a music library, by the way, compatible with the same foobar2000. A built-in converter and folder sorter is also available. All in all, a great choice for those who like to customize everything on their own.

6. Amarok

It is one of the oldest players and a true legend in the Linux world - like something like Winamp in Windows. But, unlike the latter, Amarok is in active development all the time. The program can do a bunch of things: move files between folders, naming them according to tags, download music information, lyrics and covers from Wikipedia, Amazon, Last.fm and other sources, play podcasts, create dynastic playlists, and so on.

7. GNOME Music

Some people think that minimalism is the main thing in a music player and that its interface should not resemble a fighter's dashboard. Those people should install GNOME Music. A minimum of buttons, a clean and nice window, of the additional functions - only the creation of playlists and scrobbling on Last.fm. This program is the standard player on distributions with the GNOME graphical environment.

8. Cantata

This music player is used by many distributions with the KDE graphical environment, but it can be installed anywhere. It has a customizable interface, a built-in music file organizer, smart and dynastic playlists, a volume equalization tool according to the ReplyGain standard, and a good tag editor.

In addition to local files, Cantata can play music from Jamendo, Magnatune and SoundCloud services, podcasts and Internet radio.

9. Lollypop

Player with clean and beautiful interface and music library sorter. It can download information about tracks from the Internet and organize music into playlists. There are light and dark themes, full screen mode, and support for Internet radio stations. Can sync your collection of tracks with portable players. In general, lightweight Lollypop is a cross between GNOME Music and more functional players.

10. Musique

A beautiful player that can display artist photos, lyrics and group information. To create a play queue, simply drag and drop files from the library to the sidebar of the program.

There are no functions for organizing a music library, so the player is very light. But if you need to manage your music library, the authors of the application suggest - a music organizer with a built-in tag editor that works great with Musique.