Open Source Audacious AlternativesAudio & Media Players like Audacious

The best open source alternative to Audacious is Clementine. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Audacious and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Audacious are Strawberry, Amarok, Rhythmbox and DeaDBeeF.

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  1. Clementine icon
     755 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...

    247 Clementine alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  2. 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.

    238 Strawberry alternatives

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    • Warning

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  3. 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.

    169 Amarok alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
     
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    Amarok vs Audacious Comments
    alexanderlavrenko
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    It uses a lot of system resources

    • Amarok is Free and Open SourceAudacious is also Free and Open Source
    • Amarok is Privacy focusedAudacious is not according to our users
  4. DeaDBeeF icon
     199 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.

    182 DeaDBeeF alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
     
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    DeaDBeeF vs Audacious Comments
    alexanderlavrenko
    Negative
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    It doesn't support audio media keys on Ubuntu

    • DeaDBeeF is Free and Open SourceAudacious is also Free and Open Source
  5. Wora icon
     33 likes

    Wora is a beautiful player for audiophiles (pun intended). An open-source lossless music player app that lets you organize and play your favorite tracks seamlessly.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Introducing Fossify Music Player – your gateway to uninterrupted musical enjoyment. Say goodbye to intrusive ads and hello to a seamless music experience designed to accompany you wherever you go.

    94 Fossify Music Player alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Android Tablet
     
  7. Euphonica icon
     17 likes

    Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
     
  9. 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.

    74 Elisa alternatives

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    • Windows
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    • Android
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Snapcraft
     
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