Audio Players for Xfce

One of the most necessary apps for any computer user, music players ensure that our work, play, and other general use is filled with mellifluous tones (or white noise, if you prefer) to help us focus on the task at hand or get lost in the moment.

  1. MPV icon
     503 likes

    MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

    104 MPV alternatives
    MPV screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Integrated Codecs
    2.  Low resource footprint
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Video playback
    6.  Drag and Drop
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Portable
    9.  Hardware Accelerated
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  Dark Mode
    12.  Support for 4K
  2. Audacious icon
     289 likes

    Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp.

    128 Audacious alternatives
    Audacious screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Create Playlist
    2.  Windows Compatible
    3.  Music Library
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Playlists management
    6.  3D visualization
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Ad-free
    9.  No Tracking
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  Lossless Audio
    12.  Portable
  3. DeaDBeeF icon
     193 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    171 DeaDBeeF alternatives
    DeaDBeeF screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
    DeaDBeeF screenshot 1
    DeaDBeeF screenshot 2
    +4
    DeaDBeeF screenshot 3

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Fully customizable interface
    3.  Playlists management
    4.  Support for Hotkeys
    5.  Replay Gain
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Lossless Audio
    9.  Command line interface
    10.  Portable
    11. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    12.  Mods
  4. MPlayer icon
     340 likes

    MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.

    131 MPlayer alternatives
    MPlayer on Ubuntu (Linux)

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
    • MorphOS

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Hardware Accelerated
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Integrated Codecs
  5. Quod Libet icon
     166 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.

    159 Quod Libet alternatives
    The paned browser, providing a customizable hierarchy of filters for finding your music

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
    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.

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Tagging
    3.  Music Library
    4.  Media library
    5.  Built-in Tag editor
    6.  Waveform Seekbar
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  User Rating
    10.  Portable
    11.  Sorting
    12.  Sits in the System Tray
  6. Exaile icon
     108 likes

    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

    142 Exaile alternatives
    Random Screenshot

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce

    Exaile Features

    1. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  7. Qmmp icon
     46 likes

    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or xmms.

    95 Qmmp alternatives
    Qmmp screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
    3.  Built-in Media converter
  8. Pragha icon
     5 likes

    Pragha is a lightweight music player for GNU/Linux, based on GTK, SQLite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work.

    13 Pragha alternatives
    Pragha screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Two panels
  9. Parole icon
     18 likes

    Parole is a media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework.

    89 Parole alternatives
    Parole screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce

    Parole Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  XFCE support
    3.  QT Based
  10. Foobnix icon
     27 likes

    Foobnix audio player for Linux, Windows and Android.

    Main features player

    Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab); Formats MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND ... Converter any format to any (mp3.

    124 Foobnix alternatives
    version 0.2.3 , crunchbang statler, flac playback, search window off.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
    Android (1)
    Android (2)
    +1
    Android (3)
    Discontinued

    The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in June 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.

  11. MOC icon
     30 likes

    MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

    128 MOC alternatives
    MOC screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce

    MOC Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Works Offline
  12.  8 likes

    A minimalist command line interface to MPD.

    26 mpc alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
  13. Aqualung icon
     11 likes

    Aqualung is an audio player that aims to be versatile: it is capable of producing completely gapless output, has several skins, supports Audio CDs, Internet radio streams, Podcasts, most file formats, and has an intuitive interface.

    46 Aqualung alternatives
    Aqualung screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce

    Aqualung Features

    1.  Tabbed browsing
    2.  Mods
    3.  Music Library
  14.  7 likes

    ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.

    25 ncmpc alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
  15. KISS Player icon
     3 likes

    A Simple and Lightweight Music Player.

    36 KISS Player alternatives
    KISS Player screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  OGG
    Discontinued

    Github repository has been archived by the owner on Jan 9, 2020