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 Spotify, which is free. Other great apps like Audacious are foobar2000, AIMP, Clementine and MusicBee.

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  1. MellowPlayer icon
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    MellowPlayer is a free, open source and cross-platform desktop application for music streaming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. fmedia icon
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    fmedia is a fast media player/recorder/converter for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • FreeBSD
     
  3. XMP icon
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    The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player. Xmp plays many mainstream and obscure module formats including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM), and Impulse Tracker (IT).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  5. MusicPlayer2 icon
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    MusicPlayer2 is an audio player whitch supports music collection playback, lyrics display, format conversion and many other functions.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. monoPlayer icon
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    monoPlayer is the first software release from monohex software: a new, more powerful music player for macOS. monoPlayer is designed for music enthusiasts who own their music, and it supports a wide range of formats — including lossless formats such as FLAC and APE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. JuK icon
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    Juk is a music player and a music manager. JuK is, well, at its heart, a jukebox. As is typical with many jukebox applications, JuK allows you to edit the tags of your audio files, and manage your collection and playlists. JuK is part of the KDE Multimedia package.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE
     
  8. ampcast icon
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    Ampcast is a music player for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Navidrome and Subsonic. With additional support for Apple Music, Spotify and TIDAL. It integrates with last.fm and ListenBrainz and features the Milkdrop visualizer (among others).

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • WebApps
     
  9. CometPlayer icon
     2 likes

    CometPlayer is an audio player, it supports nearly all popular audio formats, such as mp3, mpa, mp2, wma, ogg, flac, ape, wav, etc. It is simple in interface, easy to use, and highly personalizable. The special features of this software comprise lyrics display, playlist...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Foobnix icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  11. d11amp icon
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    d11amp is a frontend to MPG123, trying to resemble WinAmp, utilizing its treasure trove of themes. It has been published under the BSD 2-clause license. It uses GTK4 and portaudio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  12. piCorePlayer is a software emulation of a Squeezebox network music player that runs exclusively on the Raspberry Pi.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
     
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