ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.
Benben Alternatives
Benben is described as 'Fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter for Linux and other Unix-like systems with an oldschool-inspired interface' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Benben for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Benben 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 Benben are Winamp, Strawberry, Rhythmbox and Quod Libet.
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Album Player (Freeware, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10) is designed for composing and listening to compilations of music albums on your hard drive and CD/DVD. The Album Player plays audio files of popular formats, such as WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, ALAC, AIFF, TAK, MP3, MP4, OGG, MPC...


fmedia is a fast media player/recorder/converter for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and FreeBSD.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- FreeBSD



- 229 Rosa Media Player alternatives
Media player based on Mplayer/FFmpeg technologies. It has a simple interface and many powerful functions:
- Possibility to get an audio track from video clip
- Possibility to get a screencast
- Possibility to trim video
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
Potamus is a lightweight GTK-based audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality.
- 199 nPlayer alternatives
nPlayer provides high quality video play performance and easy control-UI supporting almost all kinds of video formats and codecs without file converting efforts.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad


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- 119 Kitten Player alternatives
Kitten Player is a simple music player, based on foobar2000 functionality. It allows user to view, arrange and download tracks from YouTube.


mpg321 is a very popular command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder (primarily for use with CD-recording software.).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD


Peyote is an audio player with a friendly MC-like interface designed specifically for working with cue-sheets.

mpg123 is a free software cross-platform command-line MPEG audio player whose library, libmpg123, is noted for its speed at decompressing MPEG audio files. As the name suggests, it supports MPEG-1 and -2, layers 1, 2, and 3. Its most common use is to play MP3 files.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku

















