Herrie AlternativesAudio Players and other similar apps like Herrie

Herrie is described as 'Minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems, audio subsystems and file formats, including playlists. Herrie has a split-screen user interface, with a playlist at the top of the screen and a file' and is a Audio Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Herrie for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Xfce apps. The best Herrie alternative is Quod Libet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Herrie are Exaile, C* Music Player, Winyl and Music Player Daemon.

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  1. Quod Libet icon
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    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.

    164 Quod Libet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
     
    • Quod Libet is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Herrie.

    • Quod Libet is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Herrie.

    • Quod Libet is Free and Open SourceHerrie is also Free and Open Source
    • Quod Libet is CustomizableHerrie is not according to our users
  2. Exaile icon
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    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, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  3.  38 likes
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    cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

    Input/Output Plugins Input: Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AAC, MP4, and everything supported by libmodplug Output: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, libao, aRts, Sun, and WaveOut (Wind.

    80 C* Music Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Winyl icon
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    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Music Player Daemon is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Herrie.

    • Music Player Daemon is Free and Open SourceHerrie is also Free and Open Source
    • Music Player Daemon is LightweightHerrie is not according to our users
  6. ncmpcpp icon
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    Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. vitunes icon
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    vitunes is a curses-based music player and playlist manager for *nix whose goals are: 1. a minimalistic appearance, 2. strong vi-like bindings, and 3. quick playlist creation/management. vitunes does not strive to be a feature-rich media player, but rather a quick, vi-like media...

    15 vitunes alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. MOC icon
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    MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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    A minimalist command line interface to MPD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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    Music player for Android that supports multiple file formats like mp3, mp4/m4a (incl. alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff create ring tones best music player with Ring tone maker, Equalizer, Shuffle, shake, Multi select.

    117 Music Player Mp3 Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • Music Player Mp3 Player is the most popular Android alternative to Herrie.

    • Music Player Mp3 Player is Free and ProprietaryHerrie is Free and Open Source
  11. Mp3blaster icon
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    Mp3blaster is an mp3 player for computers running a UNIX-like operating system, e.g. Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc. Its interface is entirely text based, thereby eliminating the need for a graphical environment like X-Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a terminal (using ncurses). Its goal is to provide a keyboard oriented and consistent interface to MPD, without wasting resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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