

Exaile is described as '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' and is a very popular Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Exaile for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Exaile 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 Exaile are Winamp, Strawberry, Amarok and MediaMonkey.


Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.
Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries.




A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from...




Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.




Audio player for local collections offering fast performance, privacy, dynamic theming, mini-player, interactive synced lyrics, folder library, advanced playlist features, queue management, 10-band equalizer, volume normalization, wide format support, and system tray controls.




MusicPod is a local music, radio, television and podcast player for Linux, MacOS and Windows.




aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.



A music cataloger, tag editor, cd ripper, audio converter, mp3 and flac analyzer, duplicate finder, player and music scrobbler - all in one.




Pragha is a lightweight music player for GNU/Linux, based on GTK, SQLite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work.

