Alternatives to foobar2000 for Linux with any license

VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.
- Definitely not meant for playing audio files, missing proper organization, tagging such as replaygain, CDDB connection, etc... Guest • Jun 2017 • 28 agrees and 6 disagrees
- VLC might be capable of playing MP3s, doesn't mean it does it well. This is a video player has the feature of playing digital audio too. Guest • Jun 2017 • 26 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Unlike foobar2000, VLC only has basic audio playing and playlist Guest • Jul 2017 • 21 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Missing the conversion and organization features. Guest • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees
- VLC is great for video, or a single audio file, but not made for audio libraries. Guest • Oct 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Great for video but it's nothing like foobar2000 Guest • Aug 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- It's not a manager. It's a player. Guest • Feb 2018
- General Media player. DIfferent functionality to dedicated audio player Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- They both play music but have massively different feature sets and focuses. SiNevesh • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's designed to be an overall good media player. It's not designed to be specifically a music player and so doesn't suit that well. Guest • Sep 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- I am looking for a converter, not a player that can admittedly play many (maybe even more) audio formats Guest • Nov 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It can play the audio files but that is where the similarity stops. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
- it's designed for video playing only, not audio, god, how many times i should tell you. altersoft • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Windows S Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV PortableApps.com Kindle Fire Haiku Xbox
Lightweight Automatic subtitles download Replay Gain Ad-free ... Audio recording Automatic conversion to multiple formats Automatic Tagging Built-in Media converter Built-in subtitle search Integrated codecs Create PlayList Customizable Google Drive integration Internet radio Low memory usage Multiple languages Media Streaming Music Library Network Traffic Obfuscation Playlists management Portable Support for subtitles Visualize Music Voice pitch visualization Add a feature

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Clementine

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4.
- It's free, it has a lot of features, but it is not as good as foobar2000. bug: memory leak. Guest • Jul 2017 • 8 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Lots of design, little contents Guest • Aug 2016
- Remote player control from Android Guest • Apr 2017
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Lightweight Built-in Tag editor IDevice sync Integrated last.fm scrobbler ... Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync iTunes integration Last.FM Scrobbler Music Library Add a feature

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Audacious

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...
- gapless playback work perfectly :) bothing worse than those short pauses! if this had a remote function would be awesome the only thing i dont like is not being able to navigate to the folder from the context menu Guest • Mar 2017
- 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. Guest • Dec 2017
- Poor audio settings and useless/featureless gui. Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
Automatic Lyrics Finder Integrated codecs Create PlayList Crossfading ... Drag n drop Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Last.FM Scrobbler Lightweight Music Library Parametric Equalizer Playlists management Skinnable Add a feature

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Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Crossfading Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Spotify integration Add a feature

393 Like
DeaDBeeF

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...
- 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. Guest • Jul 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Looks 99% like foobar2000, as a previous foobar2000 user. UI is almost exactly the same, never crashes, uses very little memory. Guest • Sep 2018
Free Open Source Mac Linux Android BSD Xfce
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Playlists management Support for Hotkeys Add a feature

150 Like
Amarok

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever...
- I have not seen a better yet still good-looking software than Amarok. Guest • Jun 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Meant for power users. Has global shortcuts, replay gain and a ton of features. Guest • Apr 2016
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature

380 Like
Tomahawk

Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming...
- Discontinued The project is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.8.4, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android
Spotify integration Deezer integration Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Google Play Music integration ... Last.FM Scrobbler Music discovery Owncloud integration Soundcloud integration Youtube integration Add a feature

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Banshee

Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio....
- Discontinued No new releases and features since 2014. Latest versions, 2.6.2 (stable) and 2.9.1 (development), released in February and March 2014, are still working and can be downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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Quod Libet

A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Debian Xfce
Custom filters Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for MPRIS Music Library ... Search operators Sits in the System Tray Add a feature

128 Like
Harmony Music Player

Music player with sleek interface & cloud compatibility. Features: • Play tracks from SoundCloud, Google Play Music, Spotify, Deezer, Hype Machine or your local...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple Account support Night mode/Dark Theme Stream audio Add a feature

24 Like
Exaile

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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
Internet radio Last.FM Scrobbler Add a feature

95 Like
Foobnix

Foobnix audio player for Linux, Windows and Android. Main features player Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab); Formats MP3, MP4...
- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in June 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce
Internet radio Add a feature

25 Like
Nightingale

Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code.
- Discontinued Last update was on January 12, 2014 for version 1.12.1 - https://blog.getnightingale.com/2014/01/12/announcing-nightingale-1-12-1/
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Gapless Playback Integrated Web Browser Skinnable Add a feature

42 Like
aTunes

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...
- Discontinued last update: 22. June 2014
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Add a feature

74 Like
1by1

1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your...

Free Windows Linux Android
Lightweight Portable Sits in the System Tray Support for Unicode Add a feature

44 Like