Music Libraries for Linux

Browse 64 Music Libraries for Linux on AlternativeTo with popular options like Online and Linux.

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  1. Spotify icon
     2808 likes

    Stream millions of tracks online with genre, playlist, artist, and album browsing. Get offline listening and ad-free experience with Premium.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Snapcraft
    • Android Auto
    • Flathub
    • Android Wear
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
    • Kindle Fire
    • Playstation
    • Fire TV
    • Apple Car Play
    • Xbox
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
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    +12
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    263 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good134 reviews
  2. Clementine icon
     757 likes

    Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    Clementine with lyrics pane
    Icecast radio stations
    Smart playlists and kittens
    247 alternatives
    3.9
    Good26 reviews
  3. Audacious icon
     304 likes

    Free, open-source audio player for Unix-like systems offering high audio quality, support for multiple codecs, Internet radio, plugins, and customizable interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
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    136 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent21 reviews
  4. Strawberry icon
     249 likes

    Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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    238 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good48 reviews
  5. nuclear icon
     107 likes

    Free streaming player sourcing music from YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and more, with lyrics, downloading, radio mode, ad-skipping, and Last.fm scrobbling.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Window Manager
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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    +5
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    75 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good15 reviews
  6. Amarok icon
     411 likes

    Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    Overview
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    169 alternatives
  7. uGet icon
     176 likes

    uGet is a lightweight and full-featured Download Manager for Linux and Windows. uGet allows you to download in multiple parallel streams for download acceleration, put files in a Download Queue, Pause & Resume downloads, Advanced Category Management, Browser Integration...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    • aria2
    uGet
    uGet 1.7.6 running on Ubuntu 10.10
    uGet 1.10.4 running on Ubuntu 13.10
    +6
    uGet 1.10.4 - Category Properties, part 1
    92 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent7 reviews
  8. Dopamine icon
     64 likes

    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Now playing
    System tray controls
    69 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good14 reviews
  9. Audius Music icon
     52 likes

    Audius is a streaming platform built for all musicians, not just those signed to labels. Build a fanbase, share your works in progress, and then publish your completed tracks for all the world to hear. Create, grow, and monetize, all without the need to graduate off the platform...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    137 alternatives
  10. Quod Libet icon
     169 likes

    A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
    The paned browser, providing a customizable hierarchy of filters for finding your music
    The album browser, giving a visual anchor for a large library
    The cover grid browser, giving an even more visual anchor for libraries
    +6
    The Soundcloud browser.
    164 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent17 reviews
  11. Elisa icon
     35 likes

    Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Snapcraft
    Elisa Albums View
    Elisa Artists View
    Elisa Albums from an Artist View
    +5
    Elisa Tracks View
    74 alternatives
  12. Miro Player icon
     242 likes

    Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is a free and open source internet TV application, media library, and video player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Sync to Android devices
    Videoplayer
    +3
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    101 alternatives
  13. Subsonic icon
     93 likes

    Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • Self-Hosted
    Main Application Window
    Alternative skin
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    +7
    Android client
    93 alternatives
  14. Mtoc icon
     3 likes

    Mtoc is a visually-rich music player and library browser that emphasizes a smooth, continuous experience with album artwork at the forefront.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    53 alternatives
  15. beets icon
     34 likes

    Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    36 alternatives
  16. Museeks icon
     20 likes

    Minimalist cross-platform music player with clean design, wide format support, playback speed control, cover art, queue management, playlists, and dark theme.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    130 alternatives