Banshee Alternatives for Linux

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1. 

   

   VLC Media Player

    7763 likes

   Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.

   172 VLC Media Player alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application types

   • Media Player
   • Audio Player

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • BSD
   • HUAWEI AppGallery
   • iPad
   • AppImageHub
   • Apple Watch
   • Snapcraft
   • Google Chrome
   • Apple TV
   • Flathub
   • PortableApps.com
   • F-Droid
   • Kindle Fire
   • Haiku
   • Android TV
   • Homebrew
   • Chocolatey

   

   

   

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   Guest

   Negative comment•Oct 6, 2016

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   VLC Media Player is a media player. It's very good at it. Banshee is more than that. Banshee is a way to organize many types of media and access them all in a single interface. It's really more of a media organizer and player in one. VLC really isn't a replacement for it.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • VLC Media Player is Free and Open SourceBanshee is also Free and Open Source
   • VLC Media Player is Customizable, Decentralized and Privacy focusedBanshee is not according to our users
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   Clementine

    760 likes

   Free cross-platform audio player and library organizer featuring support for local files, internet radio, smart and dynamic playlists, playlist import/export, projectM visualizations, lyrics, artist info, album art, tag editing, transcoding, device sync, and remote control.

   252 Clementine alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application types

   • Audio Player
   • Media Player

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Haiku

   

   

   

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   Audacious

    304 likes

   Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.

   137 Audacious alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Audio Player
   • Media Player

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

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

   

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   SMPlayer

    463 likes

   SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play.

   130 SMPlayer alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application types

   • Media Player
   • Audio Player

   Origin

   • Spain
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • mpv
   • Snapcraft
   • PortableApps.com
   • Haiku
   • MPlayer
   • Flathub
   • Homebrew

   

   

   

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   Strawberry

    248 likes

   Music player and collection organizer featuring support for diverse audio formats, bit-perfect playback, playlist management, tag editing, advanced output controls, streaming from Subsonic, Tidal, Qobuz, scrobbling, CD playback, and cover art retrieval.

   243 Strawberry alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application types

   • Audio Player
   • Media Player

   Origin

   • Norway

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Haiku
   • Mac

   

   

   

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   Rhythmbox

    436 likes

   Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software that is designed to work well under the .

   156 Rhythmbox alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application types

   • Audio Player
   • Internet Radio

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Flathub
   • Flatpak
   • GNOME

   

   

   

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   Amarok

    411 likes

   Cross-platform music player featuring customizable interface, dynamic playlists, powerful tagging and sorting, contextual views, drag-and-drop menus, robust file tracking, language localization, bookmarking, database importing, script support, and audio CD playback.

   171 Amarok alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Application types

   • Audio Player
   • Media Player

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • KDE Plasma
   • Flathub
   • Haiku
   • Flatpak

   

   

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    DeaDBeeF

     200 likes

    Lightweight desktop music player designed for multiple platforms, supporting major audio codecs, gapless playback, playlist management, customizable global hotkeys, 18-band equalizer, streaming audio, plugin extensions, and command line controls.

    186 DeaDBeeF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Audio Player

    Origin

    • Denmark
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce

    

    

    

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    Dopamine

     67 likes

    Audio player for Windows, Linux, and Mac offering a visually appealing, easy-to-use interface, support for major audio formats, music library organization, tag editing, album art retrieval, playlist management, gapless playback, and advanced searching capabilities.

    71 Dopamine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application types

    • Audio Player
    • Media Player

    Origin

    • Belgium
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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    MPlayer

     341 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • Media Player
    • Audio Player

    Origin

    • Hungary
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    

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    Guest

    Negative comment•Aug 11, 2015

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    Banshee manages media, such as music, podcasts, etc. MPlayer is only a raw media file player.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    

    

    • MPlayer is Free and Open SourceBanshee is also Free and Open Source
    • MPlayer is LightweightBanshee is not according to our users
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    Quod Libet

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application types

    • Audio Player
    • Media Player

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce

    

    

    

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    Celluloid

     50 likes

    Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. Celluloid interacts with mpv via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities.

    62 Celluloid alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application types

    • Media Player
    • Audio Player

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • mpv
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile

    

    

    

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