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...
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The Best Open Source iTunes AlternativesTop Audio & Media Players like iTunes
The best open source alternative to iTunes is Clementine. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTunes and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to iTunes are Audacious, Strawberry, Rhythmbox and Amarok.
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- 250 Clementine alternatives
137 Audacious alternativesLightweight 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Xfce
240 Strawberry alternativesStrawberry 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.
156 Rhythmbox alternativesRhythmbox 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 .
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170 Amarok alternativesAmarok 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-2.1)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Haiku
- Flatpak
132 Pocket Casts alternativesPodcast player supporting streaming and downloads, advanced search, cross-device 'Up Next', improved discovery, playback effects, and offline listening essentials.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Auto
- Android Wear
- Apple Car Play
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184 DeaDBeeF alternativesDeaDBeeF 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Cinnamon
- GNOME
- MATE
- Xfce
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Euphonica is an MPD client with integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading & more.
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69 Dopamine alternativesDopamine 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.
164 Quod Libet alternativesA 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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76 Elisa alternativesElisa 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-3.0)
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Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Snapcraft
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47 Tauon Music Box alternativesA music player for the desktop. Designed to be powerful and streamlined, putting the user in control of their music collection.
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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.