Fooyin
Fooyin is a music player built around customization. It offers a growing list of widgets to manage and play your local music collection. It's extendable through the use of plugins, and many widgets make use of FooScript to offer an even deeper level of control.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- ListenBrainz scrobbling
- Ad-free
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Works Offline
- Support for Lyrics
- Dark Mode
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- File Tagging
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler- Audio playback
- Ratings
- Waveform
Tags
- ffmpeg
- replaygain-support
- alsa
- pipewire
Fooyin News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Fooyin
Fooyin v0.8.0 update brings ReplayGain support, scripting, and visualization featuresThe Fooyin v0.8.0 release enhances ReplayGain support with new calculation options, utilizing libeb...
Recent activities
- pelishpul liked Fooyin
- crse thinks ListenBrainz scrobbling is a important feature of Fooyin
gwrvan-barre added Fooyin as alternative to Dialog Music Player- GruvPuddles liked Fooyin
Fooyin information
Developed by
Luke TaylorLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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57 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Audio & Music, File Management, Video & MoviesGitHub repository
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What is Fooyin?
Fooyin is a music player built around customization. It offers a growing list of widgets to manage and play your local music collection. It's extendable through the use of plugins, and many widgets make use of FooScript to offer an even deeper level of control.
Audio playback is supported by FFmpeg alongside multiple options for output including ALSA and PipeWire, with more to come.
A layout editing mode enables the entire user interface to be customized, starting from a blank slate or a preset layout.
Features
- Playback of: FLAC, MP3, MP4, Vorbis, Opus, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Monkey's Audio
- Gapless playback
- Audio output and device configuration
- CUE sheet support (including embedded)
- Fully customisable layout, starting from a blank window
- Customisable keyboard shortcuts
- Filter library on any field(s)
- Create and manage playlists
- Extensible using a plugin system
- Tag editor
- Directory browser, with support for direct playback
- Waveform seekbar
- MPRIS support
Comments and Reviews
I searched for music player for Linux and this one is almost the most loving one I have found. hoping it add lyrics function as soon as possible.
Probably as close to Foobar2000 as you can come