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.

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Lightweight Audio recording Automatic conversion to multiple formats Automatic subtitles download ... Automatic Tagging Built-in subtitle search Integrated codecs Create PlayList Google Drive integration Internet radio Multiple languages Media Streaming Music Library Playlists management Portable Support for subtitles Add a feature

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- Definitely not meant for playing audio files, missing proper organization, tagging such as replaygain, CDDB connection, etc... Guest • Jun 2017 • 22 agrees and 2 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 • 20 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Unlike foobar2000, VLC only has basic audio playing and playlist Guest • Jul 2017 • 17 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Missing the conversion and organization features. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- VLC is great for video, or a single audio file, but not made for audio libraries. Guest • Oct 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- General Media player. DIfferent functionality to dedicated audio player Guest • Feb 2018
- They both play music but have massively different feature sets and focuses. SiNevesh • Mar 2018
- Great for video but it's nothing like foobar2000 Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It can play the audio files but that is where the similarity stops. Guest • Nov 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- it's designed for video playing only, not audio, god, how many times i should tell you. altersoft • Jan 2018 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
Clementine

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Lightweight Built-in Tag editor IDevice sync Integrated last.fm scrobbler ... Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Last.FM Scrobbler Music Library Add a feature

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- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.3.1, released in April 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- It's free, it has a lot of features, but it is not as good as foobar2000. bug: memory leak. Guest • Jul 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees
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...

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 Skinnable Add a feature

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- 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 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
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
Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple languages Add a feature

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- 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
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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Android BSD Xfce
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Support for Hotkeys Add a feature

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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...

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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- Discontinued The project is no longer maintained. Last version, 0.8.4, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Banshee

Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio....

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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- 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.
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 OS X Windows Linux Debian Xfce
Custom filters Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for MPRIS Music Library ... Sits in the System Tray Voice Notes Add a feature

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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 OS X Windows Linux
Dark theme Last.FM Scrobbler Multiple Account support Stream audio Add a feature

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Nightingale

Nightingale is a free and powerfull music player for Linux, Windows and Mac based on the Songbird media player source code.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Gapless Playback Integrated Web Browser Skinnable Add a feature

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- 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/
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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce
Internet radio Add a feature

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- 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.
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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

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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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Internet radio iPhone/iPod sync Add a feature

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- Discontinued last update: 22. June 2014
gmusicbrowser

An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ Vorbis / FLAC / mpc/ape files, written in perl. Its made with big (> 10,000 songs) libraries in mind.

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

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