iTunes AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Media Players

The best open source Media Player alternative to iTunes is Clementine. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and 12 are open source Media Players so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Media Player alternatives to iTunes are Winamp, Strawberry, Audacious and Amarok.

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iTunes alternatives page was last updated Nov 16, 2023

Clementine
Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...
240 Clementine alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Internet Radio Service
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Top Clementine Features
1. Smart playlists
2. Podcast Player
3. Lightweight
4. Dynamic/Intelligent Playlists
5. Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
6. Playlists management
7. Lossless Audio
8. Privacy focused
9. File Tagging
10. Ad-free
11. No registration required
12. No Tracking
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Comments about Clementine as an Alternative to iTunes

glengaldine
Really good. Started to use it in my Linux years (mostly on Arch), and using it still on macOS. Interface is a bit chaotic, but it's much better then iTunes so far.
Positive comment •Jun 13, 2018
2
Guest
Amazing playback and sync capabilites. Especially great for streaming or handling big music libraries.
Positive comment •Dec 8, 2016
2
phenn
Easy to use. Doesn't nag constantly.
Positive comment •Nov 7, 2017
1
- Most users think Clementine is a great iTunes alternative.
- Clementine is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to iTunes.
- Clementine is the most popular Open Source alternative to iTunes.
- Clementine is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
- Clementine is Lightweight and Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users

Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Windows developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL, who sold to Radionomy in January 2014. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins...
238 Winamp alternatives
License model
- Free Personal • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Media Player
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
+7
Top Winamp Features
1. Internet Radio
2. Music Library
3. Skin customization
4. Crossfading
5. Playlists management
6. Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
7. Lightweight
8. Ad-free
9. Dark Mode
10. Works Offline
11. Lossless Audio
12. No registration required
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Comments about Winamp as an Alternative to iTunes

Guest
similar functionality basically
Positive comment •Sep 8, 2015
2
- Some users think Winamp is a great iTunes alternative, some don't.
- Winamp is the most popular Web-based alternative to iTunes.
- Winamp is Free Personal and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
- Winamp is LightweightiTunes is not according to our users

Strawberry
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.
232 Strawberry alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Media Player
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
Top Strawberry Features
1. Music Library
2. Music collection
3. Lightweight
4. Customizable
5. Auto fetch album covers
6. Automatic Lyrics Finder
7. Playlists management
8. Lossless Audio
9. Ad-free
10. Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
11. Gapless Playback
12. Automatic album art download
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Warning
It is still open source but now the Windows and macOS builds are tied to having a Patreon subscription.
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Comments about Strawberry as an Alternative to iTunes

Guest
Fork from Clementine which was excellent.
Positive comment •Jan 12, 2021
0
- Almost everyone thinks Strawberry is a great iTunes alternative.
- Strawberry is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
- Strawberry is Lightweight and CustomizableiTunes is not according to our users

Audacious
Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp.
128 Audacious alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Media Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Xfce
Top Audacious Features
1. Lightweight
2. Windows Compatible
3. Create Playlist
4. Music Library
5. Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
6. Playlists management
7. Ad-free
8. No Tracking
9. Dark Mode
10. Works Offline
11. Portable
12. Lossless Audio
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Amarok
Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before — and it looks good doing it.
165 Amarok alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Media Player
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Amarok Features
1. Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
2. Podcast Subscription
3. Music Library
4. Ad-free
5. Dark Mode
6. Privacy focused
7. Support for scripting
8. Multiple languages
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Comments about Amarok as an Alternative to iTunes

Hasan Yildiz
Difficult to use. It's confusing.
Positive comment •Feb 9, 2022
0
ewanneil
Not really up to the job. It made a total mess of my collection of around 40k tracks. I couldn't find anything. For example, it stuck lots of my single artist albums into "various" and missed out a whole host of second discs from double albums. To make matters worse it crashed or failed to respond more often than not. I think iTunes is pretty poor but this is considerably worse.
Negative comment •Sep 13, 2021
0
Guest
No music store. Also not available for Mac. GPL, which is copyleft, and I really don't care for copyleft. I care more for open source, but I most care that it's free. I don't hate open-source though. Any other software licensed under MIT or BSD?
Negative comment •Mar 25, 2018
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- Some users think Amarok is a great iTunes alternative, some don't.
- Amarok is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
- Amarok is Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users

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
+6
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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Comments about Quod Libet as an Alternative to iTunes

Guest
The hi hat and cymbals on Mr Mister's "we belong to no one" are clearer than foobar the bass is deep but not annoying the entire playback of this song is extremely clear.
Positive comment •Jan 24, 2019
-4
- Almost everyone thinks Quod Libet is a great iTunes alternative.
- Quod Libet is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary

Tauon Music Box
A music player for the desktop. Designed to be powerful and streamlined, putting the user in control of their music collection.
35 Tauon Music Box alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Audio Player
- Media Player
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Flatpak
Top Tauon Music Box Features
1. Dark Mode
2. Drag and Drop
3. Audio scrobble
4. Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
5. Ad-free
6. Lossless Audio
7. Privacy focused
8. No registration required
9. Lightweight
10. Music Looper
11. Customizable
12. Album shuffle mode
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