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 50 alternatives to Cantata for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Android, Mac and Flathub apps. The best Cantata 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 Cantata are Winamp, MusicBee, Audacious and Media Player Classic.

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  1. Professional Music Player with Material You Excellence Rhythm combines studio-quality audio, intelligent features, and breathtaking Material You design. Experience gapless playback, synchronized lyrics, advanced equalization, and more in a beautifully crafted interface.

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  2. Exaile icon
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    Exaile is a cross-platform music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python and is easily extensible via plugins. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

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    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  3. A fork of Phonograph Music Player that "makes all Pro features free, as they used to be". It has a material design that's easy on the eyes, and it's easy to use, customizable (multiple themes), has folder browsing, a sleep timer and tag editor.

    116 Vinyl Music Player alternatives

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  4. Best material design music player for Android. Metro is a fork of Retro Music with Google Play API removed and all pro features unlocked.

    129 Metro - A music player for Android alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  5. Yami icon
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    Explore Yami, an open-source music player providing a minimalistic, intuitive user interface to play local files and access music from Spotify and YouTube Music. Compatible across platforms, it's developed by Mithun for ease of use, integrating spotdl for seamless downloads.

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Python
     
  6. Fooyin icon
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    Fooyin is a music player built around customization. It offers a growing list of widgets to manage and play your local music collection. It's extendable through the use of plugins, and many widgets make use of FooScript to offer an even deeper level of control.

    64 Fooyin alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. Sylvakru icon
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    Sylvakru is a cross-platform music player for local libraries and self-hosted media services, supporting Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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    • Mac
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    • Android
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  8. Phiola icon
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    phiola is a fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android. Its low CPU consumption conserves the notebook/phone battery. You can issue commands to phiola via its CLI, TUI, GUI, system pipe and SDK interfaces.

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    • Windows
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    • F-Droid
     
  9. QMPlay2 icon
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    QMPlay2 is a video and audio player. It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and Prostopleer browser.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  10. Mtoc icon
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    Mtoc is a visually-rich music player and library browser that emphasizes a smooth, continuous experience with album artwork at the forefront.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  11. Gramophone icon
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    Gramophone is a sane music player built with media3 and material design library that is following android's standard strictly.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  12. Qmmp icon
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    Audio player with versatile skin support, 10-band equalizer, multiple playlists, extensive audio format compatibility, video playback through Mplayer, lyrics display, cover art support, CUE sheet handling, CDDB, stream browser, and audio converting features.

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    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
     
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