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

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Herrie

Audio Player
Free • Open Source

Herrie is a 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,...

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Herrie alternatives page was last updated Sep 14, 2023

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.
160 Quod Libet alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Media Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Debian
- Xfce
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Top Quod Libet Features
1. Library Management
2. Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
3. Customization
4. Tagging
5. Music Library
6. Media library
7. Built-in Tag editor
8. Ad-free
9. Works Offline
10. Support for Themes
11. User Rating
12. Portable
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Quod Libet VS Herrie
Is Quod Libet a good alternative to Herrie?
- 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

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...
144 Exaile alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Internet Radio Service
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
Exaile Features
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
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Winyl
Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.
358 Winyl alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Internet Radio Service
Platforms
- Windows
Winyl Features
1. Lightweight
2. Skinnable
3. Portable
4. Dark Mode
5. Music collection
6. Music Library
7. Built-in Equalizer
8. Crossfading
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Discontinued
No updates since late 2018

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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.
11 Music Player Daemon alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Music Player Daemon Features
1. Lightweight
2. Lossless Audio
3. Server-side
4. Music Library
5. Stream audio
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Music Player Daemon VS Herrie
Is Music Player Daemon a good alternative to Herrie?
- 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

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.
83 C* Music Player alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Top C* Music Player Features
1. Command line interface
2. Lightweight
3. Terminal-based
4. Opus codec support
5. Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
6. Themes
7. OGG
8. Playlists management
9. Configurable
10. Create Playlist
11. Shoutcast streaming
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C* Music Player VS Herrie
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ncmpcpp
Ncurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) Music player for the command line requiring mpd, the Music Player Daemon.
14 ncmpcpp alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
ncmpcpp Features
Command line interface
Tagging
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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.
57 mpdevil alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Linux
mpdevil Features
1. Lossless Audio
2. Works Offline
3. Lightweight
4. Automatic Lyrics Finder
5. Gtk
6. Support for Lyrics
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mpdevil VS Herrie
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MOC
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.
128 MOC alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Linux
- Xfce
MOC Features
Command line interface
Works Offline
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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.
25 ncmpc alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Linux
- Xfce
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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.
117 Mp3blaster alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Mp3blaster Features
Command line interface
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Discontinued
Last update on 2017.

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vitunes
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...
13 vitunes alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
vitunes Features
Command line interface
Vi keybindings
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Discontinued
The latest update is from March 2016.

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mpc
A minimalist command line interface to MPD.
26 mpc alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Audio Player
Platforms
- Linux
- Xfce
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