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
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    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...

    249 Clementine alternatives

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  2. DeaDBeeF icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. Audacious icon
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    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.

    138 Audacious alternatives

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    • Free
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  4. Strawberry icon
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    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.

    239 Strawberry alternatives

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  5. Amarok icon
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    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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    • Flathub
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    • Flatpak
     
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  6. Rhythmbox icon
     435 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 .

    156 Rhythmbox alternatives

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  7. Dopamine icon
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    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.

    69 Dopamine alternatives

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  8. Wora icon
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    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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  9. Quod Libet icon
     169 likes

    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.

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    • Debian
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  10. Euphonica icon
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    Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. Elisa icon
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    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.

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    • Flathub
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