foobar2000 Alternatives for Linux

foobar2000 is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Clementine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to foobar2000 and loads of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to foobar2000 are DeaDBeeF, Audacious, Strawberry and Amarok.

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  1. Clementine icon

    Clementine

     756 likes

    Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

    256 Clementine alternatives

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    Clementine with lyrics pane
     
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    Clementine vs foobar2000 Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    10

    It's free, it has a lot of features, but it is not as good as foobar2000. bug: memory leak.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    Daltro Auguso Campanher de Souza
    2

    It's not well maintained, so... Expect encoders and decoders to be a lot obsolete, specially if you use Windows and the common static libraries! Also, you can expect a lot of online service libraries to not work very well. See Strawberry instead.

    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Clementine is just a basic audio player, whereas foobar2000 is a very advanced player.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 5 comments
    • Clementine is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. DeaDBeeF icon

    DeaDBeeF

     199 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    185 DeaDBeeF alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
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    DeaDBeeF vs foobar2000 Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    3

    Like Foobar2000, you can customize the interface as well as you want, it supports easily flac files and metadata edition. DeadBeef is the alternative and open source furthermore.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    23C5DA
    1

    Very similar to foobar2000 but lacks a lot of refinements and details. Some hotkeys binding simply doesn't work. Cannot import/export theme and settings.

    Barrett
    Positive
    0

    Very customizable, with a default GTK interface! Looks and runs great! Exactly what I wanted from a music player :)

    3 of 6 comments
    • DeaDBeeF is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. Audacious icon

    Audacious

     301 likes

    Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.

    137 Audacious alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
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    Audacious vs foobar2000 Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    4

    If you are looking for a Linux program to do the same thing foobar2000 does, this is probably your best bet. Has a gui very reminiscent of fb2k, a similar plugin system bundled with it, and support for almost all video game music formats out of the box.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    RA
    Positive
    0

    It's open source, runs on Linux and Windows, has an intuitive UI and just works without any unexpected shortcomings.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Unk42 Roman M
    Positive
    1

    Very similar to foobar2000 minimalistic interface. There is also support for Winamp skins + its a open source software.

    3 of 5 comments
    • Audacious is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  5. Strawberry icon

    Strawberry

     249 likes

    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.

    246 Strawberry alternatives

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    Strawberry vs foobar2000 Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Strawberry has many features that are similar to the ones I use most in foobar2000. I particularly like the queuing system as it allows me to maintain my playlists in the order I want while easily being able to cherry pick what I want to listen to right now. This is the best music player I have found that is available for Linux and it gets me closest to the experience I loved about using foobar2000 in Windows.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Strawberry is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  6. Amarok icon

    Amarok

     411 likes

    Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.

    170 Amarok alternatives

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    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
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    • Flatpak
    Overview
     
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    Guest
    Positive
    1

    I have not seen a better yet still good-looking software than Amarok.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Meant for power users. Has global shortcuts, replay gain and a ton of features.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Amarok is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  7. Rhythmbox icon

    Rhythmbox

     434 likes

    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 .

    154 Rhythmbox alternatives

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    • Linux
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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    Rhythmbox vs foobar2000 Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    3

    Lacks the library features, as well as the modular approach to the interface.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Daltro Auguso Campanher de Souza
    Negative
    0

    Lacks library features, lacks more DSP options, lacks scrobbling, lacks audio converter, output selection...

    • Rhythmbox is Free and Open Sourcefoobar2000 is Free Personal and Proprietary
  9. Wora icon

    Wora

     33 likes

    Wora is a beautiful player for audiophiles (pun intended). An open-source lossless music player app that lets you organize and play your favorite tracks seamlessly.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Wora screenshot 1
     
  10. Dopamine icon

    Dopamine

     63 likes

    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    68 Dopamine alternatives

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  12. Euphonica icon

    Euphonica

     17 likes

    Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  14. Elisa icon

    Elisa

     34 likes

    Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.

    72 Elisa alternatives

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    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Snapcraft
    Elisa Albums View
     
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