Linux Music Players

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1- Rhythmbox

Rythmbox is a great music management application for Linux which gives you access to a lot of nice features. Including

• Easy to use music browser
• Searching and sorting
• Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
• Internet Radio support including last.fm streams
• Playlists
• Display audio visualizations
• Transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB Mass Storage music players
• Display album art and song lyrics downloaded from the internet
• Play, rip, and burn audio CDs
• Automatically download audio podcasts
• Browse, preview, and download albums from Magnatune and Jamendo

Download RythmBox

2- SongBird

Songbird is one of the best music application for Linux. It supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

Download SongBird

3- Listen Project

Listen project is a another nice music player for Linux which is written in Python (language). You can easily organize your music collections with ogg, flac, mpc, mp3, mp4, m4a supported. Feature of browsing different web service like:

• Shoucast Webradio
• Podcast
• Lyrics (througth many plugins like lyriki, leolyrics,… )
• Wikipedia informations about artists or albums

and with 4 different interface modes, it’s a must have.

Download Listen-Project

4- Gnome Music Player

Gnome Music Player Client also known as GMPC is fast and easy to use. The best thing about this software is that it’s optimized to run on low end machines and over slow networks while supporting and giving you access to a lot of great features like:

• File Browser
• Browser based on ID3 information
• Search
• Current playlist viewer with search
• ID3 Information
• Metadata support, it can show artist image, album art, lyrics, etc
• Profile support
• Support for loading/saving playlists
• Lots of Plugin support

Download Gnome Music Player

5- Bmpx

BMPx is a simple to use media player for linux. You can watch the latest CNN news or listen to the BBC NewsPod. Last.fm works great with it, and almost all the files that a media player supports are supported. BMPx uses GStreamer (which is a multimedia framework used to drive BMP’s audio backend) as the playback back end and thus can play whatever GStreamer can play on your system.

Download Bmpx

6- Sonata

Sonata is another great GTK+ Music player for MPD (Music player daemon). It’s a free software with a elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection. It has a s tabbed interface which includes your current playlist, your library (browse by filesystem, artists, or albums), your saved playlists, and any streams (pls/m3u is supported). You can perform most of your actions through right-click popup menus. Features Include:

• Expanded and collapsed views
• Automatic remote and local album art
• User-configurable columns
• Automatic fetching of lyrics
• Playlist and stream support
• Support for editing song tags
• Popup notification
• Library and playlist searching
• Audioscrobbler (last.fm) support
• Multiple MPD profiles
• Keyboard friendly
• Support for multimedia keys
• Commandline control
• Available in 20 languages

Download Sonata

7- Noatun

Noatun is more simpler and faster than some. It features some nice audio effects, a variable-band graphic equalizer, a full plugin architecture, network transparency etc. Just remember before using it, Install mpeglib and the corresponding mpeglib_artsplug, (Which is a part of the kdemultimedia-package) or it will only play .Wav files.

Download Noatun

8- Juk

Juk has an easy to use, playlist and metadata focused interface with several playlist types with other features like Player and tag Editor, multiple audio output backends, inline search, a File renamer which you can use to renames files based on the tag content, A powerful tag editor that works seemlessly with all supported music formats, A Now playing title bar, Cover Art management which is supported by Google Image search, random play etc.

Another great thing about Juk is that it has a built in CD burning support via the popular K3btool.

Download Juk

9- VLC Player

VLC player, in my opinion, doesn’t need any introduction. It’s my favorite media player which plays almost every single file, whether it’s audio or video. Codecs are pre-installed so you don’t usually need to download anything. Can play MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, even HD movies as well as DVD’s, CD’s and various streaming protocols.

Download VLC Player

10 – GmusicBrowser

GMusicBrowser is another nice music player for Linux. It’s an open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files. It’s very simple to use, You can change the volume by using the mouse wheel almost anywhere on the window, set songs ratings and much more!

Main Features Include:

• Made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind (developed with over 17000 songs on a duron800)
• Customizable window layouts (see layouts documentation)
• Powerful browser which doesn’t interfere with the playlist
• Artist/album lock : easily restrict playlist to current artist/album
• Easy access to songs related to the currently playing song
• Support ogg vorbis, mp3 and flac files (and mpc with gstreamer or mplayer)
• Simple mass-tagging and mass-renaming
• Tray icon, with a very customizable tip window, which can be used to control the player
• Very customizable SongTree widget for a pretty list of songs (example)
• Fully featured tag editor (support all id3 versions, limited support for APE & lyrics3 tags)
• Support multiple genres for a song
• Support multiple artists for each song by separating them with ‘, ‘ or ‘ & ‘
• Customizable labels can be set for each song (ex : bootleg, live, -’s favorites, …)
• Filter history in the browser window

Plugins include:

• Nowplaying (to update an external program when the playing song changes)
• Last.fm
• Find pictures
• Simple lyrics
• MozEmbed : use the mozilla engine to display wikipedia artist page and search lyrics with google

Download GMusicBrowser

11- Banshee

Banshee is another great free music player for GNU/Linux operating systems. It allows you to import Audio CD’s, synchronize your music with iPods and other devices, Stay up to date with Podcasts, check out new music at Last.FM and a lot more.

Main Features Include:

• Video Support
• Device Support
• Podcast Support
• Last.fm Streaming
• Radio Last.fm Streaming Radio
• Play Queue
• Album Art
• Artist/Album Browser
• Powerful Search

Download Banshee

12- Amarok

Amarok is a feature rich Linux music player that has a lot to offer. It provides you with a great music catalog management system through which you can gather your CD’s together by name and artist, and organize it quite effectively. It supports Last.FM and has the ability to burn custom CD’s while using K3B as it’s back end.

The latest version (Beta of Amarok 2.0) offer features like

• Inline editing of tracks in the Collection is now possible.
• Album moves can be undone
• Grouped albums can be moved in the playlist by draggin the album header
• Track moves in the playlist can now be undone
• Gapless playback.
• New “fuzzy” bias type, which matches values loosely.
• Collection Setup automatically expands to show selected directories. (BR 123637)
• Tag editing and file deletion for MTP devices
• Add toolbox to context view
• Allow selecting multiple playlist items.
• Implement “Move to collection” functionality in file browser.
• Saving/loading of biased playlists.
• Improved script console
• Set items in directory selector to partially checked when relevant. patch by Sebastian Trueg
• Album is now added to the playlist when clicked in Albums applet.
• Trigger play/pause when middle-clicking systray icon. (BR 167162)
• New start flag –multipleinstances allows to run multiple instances of Amarok.
• Full cover support for Nepomuk collection
• Search local collection for albums to show in the album applet when playing non local content
• Context view state is saved on exit and restored on start up.
• New functions available to the scripting interface, under Amarok.Info.

Download Amarok

13- Exaile

Exaile is a free music player of Unix like Operating systems. It aims to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but based on the GTK+ toolkit instead of the Qt toolkit which Amarok uses. Features include:

• Automatic fetching of album art
• Handling of large music libraries
• Lyrics fetchingArtist and album information via Wikipedia
• Last.fm support (both scrobbling of played songs and retrieving related songs from the last.fm server)
• Optional iPod support (requires python-gpod)
• Optional MTP player support (requires libmtp and pymtp)
• Optional iTunes DAAP music sharing support
• Built in shoutcast directory browser
• Tabbed play lists
• Blacklisting of tracks from the music library

Download Exaile

14- Audacious

Audacious is also used by a lot of Linux users because of it’s better organized playlist features. You can add actual internet streams, your music files, CD’s etc very easily. The previous versions of Audacious didn’t had a good support for other media files except for Ogg and MP3′s but they have implemented a lot of features with the help of third party plugins.

It’s still a decent music player for linux but needs more features and improvements to be the top one.

Download Audacious

15- Quod Libet

Quod Libet is a nice media player which is designed for Gnome, written in Python and is based on GTK+. Their main goal is to give you better management towards your music while giving you access to easily scale to libraries of thousands of songs. Other features include

• Audio Playback
• Tag Editing
• Audio Library
• Internet radio (Shoutcast) support
• Audio Feed (Podcast) support
• Simple user interface
• Python Plugins
• File Formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC

You might find some formats and other files a bit buggy while using Quid Libet but they can be easily covered by the available plugins.

Download Quod Libet

Not Satisfied? Check these out.

1- Real Player for Linux

2- Decibel Media Player

3- KPlayer

4- Kaffeine

5- Mplayer

6- Miro

7- Muine

8- MPD (Music Player Daemon)

9- Music IP Mixer

10- XMMS