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    Cantata Alternatives

    Cantata is described as 'A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD' and is a Audio Player in the Audio & Music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cantata for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and BSD. The best alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cantata are foobar2000 (Free), AIMP (Free), Strawberry (Free, Open Source) and Clementine (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated May 10, 2022
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    A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD.
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    1. VLC Media Player

      • Free • Open Source
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      • Windows
      • Linux
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      VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
    2. foobar2000 is an advanced multi-platform freeware audio player.
    4. AIMP is powerful free audio player for Windows OS that supports for local files, NAS, clouds, and podcasts. Additionally, it includes powerful tools to operate with audio files.
    5. Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.
    6. Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.
    8. MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.
      MusicBee vs Cantata opinions
      pros, cons and recent comments
      Musicbee is not a controller for MPD. It's not usable as a MPD controller
      Negative comment • over 1 year ago

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    9. Winamp is a media player for Windows developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to Radionomy in January 2014.

      Discontinued

      last updated: Sep 18th 2018, 10:12 GMT
      https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Players/Winamp-5.shtml

    10. Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp.
    11. Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features.

      Discontinued

      The project is no longer developed. The currently active fork is MPC-HC . Latest version, 6.4.9.1, released in April 2011, can be still downloaded from FreeCodec.com

    12. 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 .
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