iTunes AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Audio Players for Linux

iTunes is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux Audio Player alternative is Clementine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and loads of them are Audio Players available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux Audio Player alternatives to iTunes are Spotify, Audacious, Strawberry and Amarok.

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  1. Clementine icon
     755 likes

    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...

    255 Clementine alternatives

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    • Haiku
     
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    Clementine vs iTunes Comments
    glengaldine
    Positive
    2

    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.

    Guest
    Positive
    2

    Amazing playback and sync capabilites. Especially great for streaming or handling big music libraries.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    phenn
    Positive
    1

    Easy to use. Doesn't nag constantly.

    • Clementine is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Clementine is Lightweight and Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users
  2. Spotify icon
     2802 likes

    Enjoy unlimited music and podcast streaming. Explore tracks by artist, genre, or playlist, and experience seamless transitions across all devices. Upgrade to Premium for offline access and no ad interruptions.

    263 Spotify alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Snapcraft
    • Android Auto
    • Flathub
    • Android Wear
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
    • Kindle Fire
    • Playstation
    • Fire TV
    • Apple Car Play
    • Xbox
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
     
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    Spotify vs iTunes Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    0

    Because there is good music

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    20

    Spotify is a music streaming app, while iTunes uses an offline music library.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It is free with a large catalog of songs, only.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 11 comments
    • Spotify is Freemium and ProprietaryiTunes is Free and Proprietary
  3. Audacious icon
     300 likes

    Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.

    135 Audacious alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
     
  4. Strawberry icon
     249 likes

    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.

    245 Strawberry alternatives

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    • Warning

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    • Windows
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    • Haiku
     
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    Strawberry vs iTunes Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Fork from Clementine which was excellent.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Strawberry is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Strawberry is Lightweight, Customizable and Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users
  5. Amarok icon
     411 likes

    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.

    169 Amarok alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
     
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    Amarok vs iTunes Comments
    Hasan Yildiz
    Positive
    0

    Difficult to use. It's confusing.

    ewanneil
    Negative
    0

    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.

    Guest
    Negative
    -29

    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?

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Amarok is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Amarok is Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users
  6. Rhythmbox icon
     434 likes

    Rhythmbox is an audio player for Linux that plays and organizes digital music. Inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software that is designed to work well under the .

    153 Rhythmbox alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • GNOME
     
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    Rhythmbox vs iTunes Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    Similar concept and functionality.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Rhythmbox is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Rhythmbox is LightweightiTunes is not according to our users
  7. DeaDBeeF icon
     198 likes

    DeaDBeeF is a lightweight graphical music player created for easy playback of music and management of playlists. It supports major audio codecs and tags, global hotkeys, gapless playback, streaming audio, command line control, and has an 18-band equalizer.

    184 DeaDBeeF alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
     
  8. Euphonica icon
     17 likes

    Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  9. Quod Libet icon
     169 likes

    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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    Quod Libet vs iTunes Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    -4

    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.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Quod Libet is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Quod Libet is CustomizableiTunes is not according to our users
  10. Dopamine icon
     62 likes

    Dopamine is an audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. It can play wav, mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wma and m4a/aac.

    67 Dopamine alternatives

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    • Mac
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  11. Elisa icon
     34 likes

    Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users.

    71 Elisa alternatives

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    • Windows
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    • Android
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Snapcraft
     
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    Elisa vs iTunes Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    It is an audio player but doesn't really manage the library. Track/album/artist information seems to be non existent and doesn't seem to support and scraping features to make sure meta data and album art are accurate.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Elisa is Free and Open SourceiTunes is Free and Proprietary
    • Elisa is Lightweight and Privacy focusediTunes is not according to our users
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