Audacious Alternatives

Audacious is described as 'Free, open-source audio player for Unix-like systems offering high audio quality, support for multiple codecs, Internet radio, plugins, and customizable interface' and is a very popular Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Audacious for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Audacious alternative is foobar2000. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try foobar2000 or AIMP. Other great apps like Audacious are MusicBee, Winamp, Strawberry and Amarok.

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  1. Cantata icon
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    A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
     
  2. Plexamp icon
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    Plexamp is a small music player for your desktop, with a number of unique features.Throw your best FLACs at it and experience sonic bliss!.

    143 Plexamp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3. Fooyin icon
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    Fooyin is a music player built around customization. It offers a growing list of widgets to manage and play your local music collection. It's extendable through the use of plugins, and many widgets make use of FooScript to offer an even deeper level of control.

    58 Fooyin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. Roon icon
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    Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.

    231 Roon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Synology C2
     
    • Roon is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Audacious.

    • Roon is Paid and ProprietaryAudacious is Free and Open Source
  5. Vox Music Player icon
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    It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.

    149 Vox Music Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
  6. Tomahawk icon
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    Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming from your other machines, to a recommendation from Spotify, to a pre-release on SoundCloud to your favorite...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  7. Winyl icon
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    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

    368 Winyl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. aTunes icon
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    aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.

    134 aTunes alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Museeks icon
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    A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. MOC icon
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    MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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