Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Germany
EU
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foobar2000 Alternatives
Apps similar to foobar2000 include AIMP, which is free. Other options are Clementine, MusicBee, Winamp and Audacious. You're spoiled for choice with Audio Players like foobar2000: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone.
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A beautiful, local-first music player for macOS. Center Stage turns your library into a full-screen console with photoreal vinyl and cassette decks, a live spectrum analyzer, and a 10-band EQ. No subscription, no account, no network access — $4.99 one-time.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Canada
+3
This app is a music player that can play and manage songs registered from local music library or audio files in the 'Files' app.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
+2
SonicTree is a Linux music player for local music playback and filesystem-based navigation. It allows you to browse and play music directly from your existing folder structure without requiring a separate music library database.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
India
28 Melodex alternativesOpen-source music player that turns your local library and connected sources into personalised listening journeys using Flow sequencing, taste memory, rediscovery, and optional LLM control.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Android
- Linux
- Mac
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A modern macOS music player app built with SwiftUI that integrates with YouTube Music for streaming audio content.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- YouTube Music
Android music player for local FLAC and ALAC files plus Jellyfin or Subsonic libraries. It supports direct USB DAC playback at native rates, hashes transmitted audio for verification, and includes a 10-band parametric EQ, AutoEQ imports, M3U playlists, and Android Auto.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- Android Auto
United States
GhostDeck plays the music files you already own, on a Mac, without an account or an internet connection. The layout is the classic one from the late nineties: a main deck with LED time, spectrum and transport buttons, a ten band equalizer with presets, and a playlist.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Serbia
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QuickTunes is a simple and fast Apple Music client for macOS, aiming to bring the simplicity of music players from the early 2000s like the iPod to your Mac.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
+3
Alien Pirate Radio is a macOS desktop music player for local music libraries. It scans a user-selected music folder, plays supported audio files, reads optional RSS news bulletins, and uses locally installed AI tools such as Ollama and Kokoro to generate spoken radio-style DJ...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United Kingdom
I got tired of four apps open at once just to hear one night of music. Local FLACs in one player, nugs.net in another, an Archive.org show in a browser tab, TIDAL off to the side. So I built the player I wanted.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
+1
5 Orynivo alternativesOrynivo is a free, open-source music player and library manager for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is primarily aimed at people who keep their own music collection and want to manage it locally instead of uploading it to a cloud service.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Germany
- EU
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