Herrie Alternatives

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. The best alternative is Quod Libet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Herrie are Exaile, Music Player Daemon, Winyl and ncmpcpp.

Herrie alternatives are mainly Audio Players but may also be Media Players or Internet Radio Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Herrie.

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Herrie

Free • Open Source
Audio Player

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Windows
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Herrie is a minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems,...

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Quod Libet
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Media Player
Mac
Windows
Linux
Debian
Xfce
156 alternatives to Quod Libet
Quod Libet is a Gapless GTK+-based audio player written in Python. Its designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (dont worry, regular searches work too).
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Quod Libet Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsQuod Libet can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
2. PortableQuod Libet can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Library Management
Customization
Tagging
Waveform Seekbar
Media library
Music Library
Columnar-panel navigation
Built-in Tag editor
SoundCloud Integration
Musicbrainz support
Exaile
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Internet Radio Service
Windows
Linux
BSD
Xfce
141 alternatives to 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, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, streaming Internet radio...
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Exaile Features
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
Music Player Daemon
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
12 alternatives to Music Player Daemon
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.
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Music Player Daemon Features
1. LightweightMusic Player Daemon consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Lossless AudioMusic Player Daemon has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
Server-side
Music Library
Stream audio
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Winyl
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Internet Radio Service
Windows
338 alternatives to Winyl
Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.
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Winyl Features
1. PortableWinyl can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. LightweightWinyl consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Skinnable
Music Library
Crossfading
Music collection
Built-in Equalizer
Discontinued
No updates since late 2018
ncmpcpp
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
14 alternatives to ncmpcpp
Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon.
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ncmpcpp Features
1. Command line interfacencmpcpp either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Tagging
C* Music Player
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Mac
Linux
BSD
83 alternatives to C* Music Player
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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C* Music Player Features
1. Command line interfaceC* Music Player either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. LightweightC* Music Player consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Terminal-based
Opus codec support
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
Themes
OGG
Playlists management
Configurable
Create Playlist
Shoutcast streaming
MOC
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Linux
Xfce
127 alternatives to MOC
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.
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MOC Features
1. Command line interfaceMOC either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Works OfflineMOC can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
ncmpc
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Linux
Xfce
26 alternatives to ncmpc
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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Mp3blaster
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Linux
BSD
119 alternatives to Mp3blaster
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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1. Command line interfaceMp3blaster either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Discontinued
Last update on 2017.
mpdevil
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Free • Open Source
Audio Player
Linux
56 alternatives to mpdevil
Mpdevil is a simple music browser for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) which is focused on playing local music without the need of managing playlists. Instead of maintaining a client side database of your music library, mpdevil loads all tags and covers on demand.
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mpdevil Features
1. Lossless Audiompdevil has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
2. Works Offlinempdevil can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
3. Lightweightmpdevil consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Automatic Lyrics Finder
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Lyrics

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