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. A simple media player for GNOME that supports libvlc, xine-lib and libgstreamer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Song Director icon
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    Song Director is a program that plays and keeps track of all your music files. Easier to use and understand than iTunes or Windows Media Player. It unleashes the full power of a modern database system in an extremely simple, easy to use manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. HikiPlayer icon
     3 likes

    Lightweight folder based music player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  4. 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
     
  5. CLIAMP icon
     3 likes

    Terminal-based retro music player inspired by a classic interface, supporting playback from local files, online streams, podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, Navidrome, Plex, and more, with features like a visualizer, parametric EQ, radio browser, and playlist management.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  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. Oto Music icon
     4 likes

    A material designed offline music player for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  8. Music Caster is a modern music player that can cast audio files and urls to Google Chromecasts, Home minis, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Ferrum icon
     Like

    Ferrum is in development and might get updates that no longer work with your library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. MyMusik icon
     Like

    Your music. Your library. Everywhere. MyMusik is a modern music player that brings streaming-level convenience to your personal music collection across all your devices. Keep full control of your music, metadata, tags, library, and privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Linux
     
  11. MusicPlayer icon
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    Music player - endlessly plays your music . This music player is supposed to be simple and all centered around an infinite intelligent queue (some other players call this PartyShuffle or DJ mode). You can manually add songs to it - but if you don't or the queue gets too...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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