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, Music Player Daemon, C* Music Player and Winyl.

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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.

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    • Debian
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  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...

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  3. Server-side music player supporting multiple audio formats. It requires a client and can be controlled remotely. MPD features gapless playback, crossfading, and is compatible with multiple audio systems. It can stream to Icecast and has a built-in HTTP server.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. 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.

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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  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.

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  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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  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.

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    A minimalist command line interface to MPD.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  10. 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.

    113 Music Player Mp3 Player alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
     
  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.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  12.  7 likes

    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.

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    • Free
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    • Linux
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